pablolie;183867 Wrote: > And I have simply never seen any data or proof or material anywhere > that shows that a red book audio CD playing in a regular CD player is > plagued by enough bit errors to fundamentally make it inferior to a > PC-based system where the CD has been ripped into it. >
The molding process of the disc can cause random bit errors, but as you've pointed out they will probably be corrected. It was mentioned that scratched discs were a con to optical playback, and a scratched disc has enough bit errors to be uncorrectable by reed solomon. It's quite easy, as you guessed, to get a bit perfect rip with a pristine disc. The odds of accurateRip being wrong about this are like a billion times a billion when yours matches someone else's (given theirs was accurate). Once you have the bit perfect rip, the only factor is the conversion to analog- so it's like a cd player, but eliminates one step, a step which surely cannot argued to enhance digital playback. Which brings me back to the memory. We've established that Sb uses a large high quality buffer, but what kind of RAM do CD players use that isn't prone to cosmic rays (which opaqueice originally pointed out hours ago)? -- Skunk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32993 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
