After reading the positive review on the SB it occured to me that I had been missing something fundemental about why this way of playback of audio is inherently superior to CD players.
I read in the article that since the sound data is extracted via computer onto hard disk and because computers need bit-perfect data, we are getting a more acccurate experience than a CD player that error-corrects and filters data on-the-fly. Of course, why hadn't it occured to me before? If the drives were anything less than 100% accurate, PC's wouldn't be able to install apllications or do any of the normal things we take for granted. In other words, the SB has the luxury to perfrom slow and accurate data transfer, doesn't need to accomodate the design issues of moving parts and accurate retrieval using lasers on less-than-perfect CDs and is absolutely consistent every time you playback the music. That is a not an inconsiderate advantage in music reproduction over a CD player that has to do that in real time and performs error correction to fix mis-reads of data because it hasnt got time to go back an re-read information. Has anyone measured that? What is the bit-accuracy of a high end CD player compared to the exact copies that we get from EAC? Paul -- CardinalFang ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18991 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
