Phil Leigh;502297 Wrote: > Which you will hear as clicking noises as samples are > dropped/doubled...
Not necessarily... it depends on how much data is lost. A period of single bit errors might only result in a temporary increase in noise & distortion. Perhaps enough to be subconsciously heard as worse sounding, without obviously being dropped samples. Some very early CD players had error lights on them, which flashed when an uncorrectable error was detected. This feature was discarded almost immediately, as there were too many customer complaints that the error light was always flashing! Ignorance is bliss! I don't believe modern CD players suffer nearly as much from this, but it would be fairly easy to test. Record the spdif stream a few times, and run them through Audio Diff Maker. You could compare the original CD with ripped and burned copies on different media, or compare different CD players this way. -- DCtoDaylight Audiophile wish list: Zero Distortion, Infinite Signal to Noise Ratio, and a Bandwidth from DC to Daylight ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DCtoDaylight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
