Ejorne;213967 Wrote: > But i don't want to go further off-topic. This is a topic about the > squeezebox and not about cdr. The thing about cdr was just to > illustrate the common phenomenon. ...
There is a belief in some audio circles that if you rip a CD using EAC and then burn a CDR with an exact copy, you get in effect a better pressing. In other words, EAC can do a better job of getting the data than a CD player and the resulting CDR is better that the CD because the pits are created in a non mass-production way and to a higher tolerance. However, it all seems to be based on the old misunderstanding between error correction and error concealment. In other words the CDR sounds different because the data has less errors, but the reality is that the data is the same after it comes out of the CD read buffer because errors are corrected in both cases. You might get a "better" CDR if you were able to extract data from areas where the CD player could only conceal them, but that's a very small minority of cases I would imagine. As for the original subject, I believe Sean's assertion that the data and process of decoding it is identical in both cases. However, I have personally seen software developers caught out in similar circumstances where they know how something is *supposed* to work, and have found that in reality there are subtleties from system interactions in the real world that cause differences. Not that I'm implying that's the case here since Sean has reviewed his design and the operation on the SB3 prior to posting comments. -- CardinalFang ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36503 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
