Well, it seems a lot of folks have different experiences to me regarding the frequency of uncorrectable errors on audio CDs. Rather than responding to each posting individually, I'll just summarise:
1. Those of you seeing lots of CU errors must either be treating your CDs like frisbees, or be using CD players or CDROM drives that are not performing correctly. In my personal experience, genuine CU errors are very rare. 2. On the few occasions I've had a CD with CU errors on it, I've yet to see EAC actually produce a clean result - it still ends up with uncorrectable errors, no matter how many times it re-reads. It is nearly always quicker to just play the CD and let the audio player's error concealment do its stuff, recording the SPDIF output. Sure, the resulting file has some interpolations in it, but so too does the EAC rip, and often the SPDIF stream is audibly better. 3. Phil mentions that the SPDIF stream will rarely be bit-accurate. If you're talking about discs that have only C1 and C2 errors, then any SPDIF stream that is not bit-accurate is in principle broken. Some years ago I did a test to prove that it was possible to produce perfect CDR copies from audio CDs, and it involved recording the SPDIF streams from a pressed CD and a DAE'd CDR copy thereof. The two streams were indeed bit identical. -- cliveb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24957 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
