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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source?

Post Subject: What's the mechanism?Posted by item on: 11/3/2011

If you built a machine purely as a CD converter, it would be interesting to experiment with different power supplies to determine whether a higher number of errors get through the sieve when rail noise is higher. It has been well documented that different CD-ROM mechs create higher or lower read errors, and obviously these are not desirable, but from the playback viewpoint, once the file is encoded, the processor takes the file as read: it's not error checking against the CD.

Again, we're missing even the flimsiest theoretical framework for a mechanism by which one in a million bit errors during ripping can translate to any characteristic difference in the resultant file. Especially when we consider that during playback those micro rip 'errors' are not errors at all: they look like valid data.

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