Skunk;331475 Wrote: > I agree WRT pristine discs, but a lot of the discs in my collection > aren't. If EAC is given hours to 'end up with the exact same bits' on a > test and copy but repeatedly fails, I don't see how it could be done in > real time using a CDP. The point Struts is making is that an audio CD player is designed to deal with uncorrectable errors by using interpolation to mask them. Quite often the "repair" is audibly undetectable. A ripper, meanwhile, keeps trying to re-read the CD and (if the damage is bad) eventually gives up.
A small number of CDROM drives do have an option to do interpolation when ripping. I had a Plextor PX712A which could be used in that mode (but only when using Plextools). The quality of its error concealment was actually slightly better than a high-end CD player I had (Micro-Seiki CD-M100). Unfortunately it died a while back, and Plextors these days seem to be just re-badged "ordinary" drives. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51311 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
