CardinalFang;213995 Wrote: > 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. > I think if there is any difference between a CD and a CDR it's more likely to be because the data got burnt with a more or less stable clock, which then affects the read clock, and hence the DAC clock.
So jitter rather than errors. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 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
