Many old " high end " transports is also operating in real time they read continiusly at 1x and only once so read errors will appear more often that on a computer any old pc can beat that with the proper ripping . Good ripping software re reads iffy parts and try several times to get the data .
There is also some hybrid solutions , the MeridianG98DH DVDA player is used for CD's before I got a squeezebox actually use a computer drive and some tricks to read ahead and do it multiple times , so it is essentially " ripping " a disc as it plays them. There really isno point in an elaborate mechanical design at 10k$ to make this real time cd read perfect when you can if allowed some memory buffer do it for 10$ . And actually the computer evolution has served us very well here , if a computer drive had severe read error people would have problem installing software etc. and computer stuff has been lower the prices all the time . So even the cheapest drive today is an amazing piece of technology . Imagine what a computer would cost if it where designed by a high end audio company and the electricity bill to go with that :) And all the tubes you had to change... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97019 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
