Ok my 2 cents worth, to be honest any errors in the stream from a CD are totally insignificant when you look at how poorly even the best speakers produce sound waves.
CD's/Cd players will inherently have errors on or downstream from the CD, due to many things, such as dust, tracking, conversion, timing, clocks etc, but all of these except in the worst case are very minor. Hard Drive systems are a little better but have there own problems too. EAC is not perfect and comparing a checksum is really the only way to know it is right, because CD-ROM drives are less than perfect and offsets can be wrong. Once again these issues are very minor. When is comes down to it, "us" audiophiles are an anal lot that rarely pay heed to logic. -- dlite ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dlite's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4885 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24957 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
