Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
> | I just want to know if there is a difference of quality of
> | the digital out between different CDROMs, because my CDROM
> | is a 8X Goldstar (GCD-R580B) and perhaps it would be better
> | to buy a new one :)
> Nope. What comes out of the optical jack on one unit is 100%
> identical to what comes out of the optical jack on another.
That would be in case of flawless reading. When the drive has
problems reading the disc, error correction has to be applied,
which probably alters the data. Some drives could have reading
problems where others still can read without error correction.
Also, many cheap drives do strange things in the subcode channel:
wrong SCMS bits, wrong indication of in/out of track, error flag
set all the time - that's what was reported in a magazine article
last year. Problems like those could also apply to the mentioned
Goldstar drive...
But unless there are severe problems (audible errors in the spdif
stream, not able to copy because of wrong subcode channel data)
with the drive, I would not buy a new drive just for this purpose...
Bye,
Hannes
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