Skunk;183879 Wrote: > The precision circuits for the servos, separate housing for the > transport/DAC, and resonance damped platter proves that the design of > CD players is indeed compromised. Not necessarily. Accuphase CD players are exquisite pieces of engineering, and I'm sure that the care they put into the analogue side of things is justified (at least to a certain extent). But this thread is all about whether there is a flaw in the DIGITAL side of CD replay, and in this domain it is debatable whether the lengths that the likes of Accuphase (and other "super-fi" manufacturers) go to is necessary.
The simple fact of the matter is that very humble low-end CD players are quite capable of delivering bit-perfect digital data streams from even moderately damaged CDs. It takes a heck of a lot of scratches before the C2 error correction stage fails. Only those which have been seriously abused (and those with uncorrectable errors pressed in at the manufacturing stage) pose any kind of problem. -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 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
