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RE: Nope: still errors, & less with VRDS wi live playback

Listening tests are a tedious and unreliable way of detecting data errors, compared to a direct comparison of the delivered bits vs. the correct bits. People may prefer expensive transports and they may be actually hearing superior sound, but if so the reason is not likely to be associated with the lack of data errors reading the CD, unless the drive in the comparison player was broken.

As to live playback, this depends on the way that the device works to do the CDA error correction. This comes in two levels of correction, plus a level of interpolation plus a level of muting. Most disks have no errors that require the second level of correction. For master disks that I burn there are strict limits on the number of C1 errors corrected and the limit is zero on the number of C2 errors corrected, otherwise I junk the "coaster". This provides the needed tolerance for wear and tear.

I feel sorry for people who have these expensive transports when they suffer wear and tear or laser problems and no longer work reliably, skip, etc... The same thing happens with the cheap computer drives like the Plexor that I use, but it's a 10 minute drive swap (no tools required) and the replacement part is under $50. My drive comes with software that diagnoses disks and plots the number and location of the various types of errors.



Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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