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RE: There is no sonic benefit

Ah, I think I'm seeing the problem. You believe that since the CD sounds just fine in the CD player (with few, if any, audible problems from errors) that it is being read just fine. You seem to be under the impression that checksum-based error correction can fix read errors, but this is not the case (and this is why a computer often has to spend quite a bit of time trying to read a CD in order to extract the data without errors...the checksum does not FIX the errors, it just helps the player determine that there is a problem with the data).

The reality is that your CD player is probably masking the read errors by interpolating data with some clever algorithm. And if that sounds fine to you, and you aren't bothered by the idea that it might be masking its read errors, keep using CD Players, by all means.

However, if you want to be CERTAIN that the audio data you are listening to is perfect, using a CD Player as a transport is not an option because they CANNOT read many CDs in real time with bit perfect results. If this bothers you, and you want to listen to digital audio knowing that you are hearing exactly the data that was stored on the original CD, a hard drive is a much better solution than a CD player.

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  • RE: There is no sonic benefit - Scrith 01/16/0819:23:17 01/16/08 (0)
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