LPs are circular lumps of plastic, pressed out at speed, and subject to warps, air bubbles, non-concentricity, and sometimes not being circular.
CDs are circular lumps of plastic................... CD Players have to get the bits off, in a timely fashion, and the power demands of their servos can interfere with the player, and even other items in the replay chain. Ripping has to get the bits off - and that's it. Recent experience with ripping shows that getting the bits off is perhaps not as difficult as I previously thought. Most CDs in Accuraterip go through dBpoweramp on the first pass. I do notice that tracks near the end of a long CD tend to have more problems than others. As these tracks are on the outside of the CD, I assume that is due to warping. So items that I know to work, such as the Ringmat Statmat, or the CD Lathe are presumably more about reducing jitter and/or the work the servos have to do. The CD Lathe will make your CD perfectly circular, something that they are frequently not. That alone will reduce the load on the servos and motors. As always, the problem is identifying all the factors involved. For example, why does streaming wave sound different to streaming flac (wired) on a TP ? It ain't the quality of the bits. -- bigfool1956 David Ayers Music is what counts, hifi just helps us enjoy it more ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bigfool1956's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13782 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44567 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
