There's plenty for me to think about in the previous few posts, as I have been ripping to FLAC and Ogg using CDex on my laptop. I can see that I can probably do better and also do things to check the quality of my FLACS.
I did once set about installing EAC, but had other things to do that evening as well, and gave up. I just Googled a bit on error correction and found this, which is a description of the Reed-Solomon system used:- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HPJ/is_n6_v41/ai_9683351 I noticed that it says, speaking of Red Book:- <<Correction algorithms within drives do not always take full advantage of the codes' correction capability. All manufacturers' implementations do, however, use enough of this capability to lower error rates from the [10.sup.-5] to [10.sup.-6] level at the disk to the [10.sup.-11] to [10.sup.-12] level at the interface.>> This does seem to suggest that drives do vary. I wonder which are the 'good' ones? -- 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
