mauidan Wrote: > Mahalo for the "correction." My question still for cliveb, > what "magic" is EAC going to do if you've recorded a signal with error > correction codes?
EAC reads and re-reads the CD, trying to get a result which is correct. I assume it uses the intrinsic error correction built into the CD format (CIRC) to determine when or if it gets a correct reading. It sounds like this vaunted "Memory Player" does much the same, except it costs $10,000 (which compares somewhat unfavorably to $0 for EAC). As I and others have mentioned, much of the time EAC gets a perfect copy of a CD track (even on my rather poorly-taken-care-of and scratched CD collection). This can be verified beyond any doubt using checksums plus the internet. So most of the stuff on that Memory Player page is false advertising, although you can see they've worded things somewhat cleverly to avoid really saying anything. My favorite line is this: > > In over 99% of our comparisons, listeners found it impossible to > distinguish a CD played from memory from the master tape. I'd love to know what percentage of the time listeners can distinguish a $20 CD player from the master tape in the same test... -- 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
