I am an objectivist. There, I admit it. But I am still open minded. Just ask my Physicist brother-in-law who I drive nuts with my alternative explanations of things. The Stereophile article is very convincing. Something seems to happen with CDs that classic digital theory doesn't seem to explain. I have been making assumptions about how CDs are read that seem to be incorrect. So my question is, is it the digital information that somehow seems to be "corrupted" or is there something in the way it is read that causes the DAC to distort the sound. DACs are analog devices. It just can't be the digital information, or software CD would not work. Like he wrote in the article, a single incorrect bit will likely crash a program.
So if we took a disk that seems to benefit from a treatment and we ripped it to the highest possible quality BEFORE treating it, and then ripped it again after treating it, then compared the results played through a high quality DAC. Would the two files sound different? I suspect not, but then I can't explain what the treatment does. The reason I suspect that they would not sound different is that once you remove the physical characteristics of the CD and your 1s and 0s are purely electronic anything other than the 1s and 0s would be removed, including jitter, noise floor, sidebands, spurs, whatever. Any thoughts on this? I can see myself setting up an experiment. -- regalma1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ regalma1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6658 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32993 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
