cliveb Wrote: > > The whole issue of read errors on CDs (leading to some truely crackpot > ideas like treatments with green pens and Armor-All, and now this > "memory player") is a myth.
Based on personal experience with ripping audio CDs, I can testify that this is not the case, at least not with my CD-ROM drives and my CDs. While they often correctly read the CD without errors, about equally often errors occur. These can *sometimes* be corrected by EAC, reading in far slower than real time (which an audio CD player of course could not do), but more often they do not get corrected. You can be certain whether or not an error has occurred in the rip by matching a checksum against the internet. On the other hand while they certainly exist I doubt that these errors are significant for sound quality. Given that, say, half the time there are zero errors, when there are errors the total number of wrong bits is probably quite small. Since one track on a CD has 500,000,000 bits or so, if a few are wrong it's probably not a very big deal. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24957 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
