gdg Wrote: > In fact CDs ripped by EAC will, in all likelihood, be superior to the > origonal CD.Initially this is counterintuitive but makes sense because > a CD player can only read the cd once and any imperfections must be > dealt and compensated for using digital approximations (guesses).
Although EAC can make several attempts to read the CD, it can still only use the same CD error correction that a CD player uses and since that is error *correction*, they are both able to fix the problem. EAC is no better than a CD player in this regard. If the error is so gross that the correction data is insufficient, then there will need to be some interpolation between previous and next sampels in order to do error *concealment*. EAC doesn't automatically do this (although I believe it can be set up to do it), CD players do. I have a number of CDs that sound fine on a player, but bad as EAC rips because there are noticeable glitchs. It is possible that during the re-reads on a bad section of a CD, EAC may be able to correctly read the data or enough of it that it can then apply correction - that is its only advantage over a CD player. -- CardinalFang You're only young once, but you can be immature forever... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25333 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
