I don't understand how this dicussion can continue without reference to error correction. My understanding is that the clever people at Sony and Philips who developed the Red Book CD standard anticipated that there would be problems getting the data off the CD, and incorporated error correction, meaning that there is a lot more data on the CD than we actually want to end up with, because there is redundancy required by the error correction. The allowed error rate is very low for Red book and even lower for Yellow Book (computer CD ROMs) because software can't stand any errors whereas music can stand a few. I assume that if my CD player is working properly then the error correction is working properly. My understanding is that the the Red book standard allows an error rate of about one error bit per second. I don't know, but I can only imagine that this would not have an audible impact on sound quality. When one puts a music CD into a computer CD ROM drive I guess that one ends up with Red Book error correction, although I don't know. Is trying to recover a whole CD, or even a track, with zero errors a reasonable goal?
Once the music exists as a computer file I assume there is no further problem because it will be manipulated using the same mature computer technology that banks and insurance companies seem pretty relaxed about. -- DennyL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42435 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
