P Floding;169771 Wrote: > Imperfect reads are corrected 100% almost all the time. That's what the > correction code is for. Our university professor drilled a decent size > hole in a CD to demonstrate what could be corrected with Reed-Solomon. > Uncorrectable reads are seldom even one per disc. Even if there were 10 > such uncorrectble errors, which are automatically concealed by CD > players, how could they "veil" a whole CD?
Was the above experiment performed on a computer CD-ROM or a redbook audio CD? It's my understanding that computer files are read and error-corrected in a more rigorous method than red book audio files. It's also my understanding that software such as EAC provides statistics on each rip in terms of how many reads were necessary to get a 100% bit-accurate read. Maybe some of you guys who use EAC can report what you get in terms of read accuracy? > The real reasons the player sounds good probably have more to do with > not running a transport while producing the desired analogue signal. I suspect it also has something to do with reading data from solid-state memory (rather than off a hard drive or CD). -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31595 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
