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In the Forum: Off Air Audio
In the Thread: How to record FM broadcasts.
Post Subject: Abstract Audio?Posted by Max Shatsky on: 12/22/2006
Romy,

You say that the digital read from your transport is better than the multiple reads of CD-Rom with EAC software?
Thats interesting!!! It means that it is better to read once in a 'good' way than ten times to read garbage and average it.
So, all those hi-end CD players that use CD-ROM (or DVD-rom) as a transport just extract the same garbage multiple times.
I guess the reason is that a noise that come from CD and particular CD-ROM is not random. If it mistakenly reads 0 as 1 it may continue to do so due to its physical characteristics.  Otherwise, multiple reads should work at least as good as your CEC transport.
Such things do not happen to CD-data due to a significant space allocated for error-correction. Sure, who needs error correction for CD-audio, it only creates a market for expensive cd-transports.

I'm waiting when Flash-memory, or any other error free alternatives, will subsitute current optical audio discs, then the transport issue will become irrelevant.

>I heard that nowadays even the head-held devices or laptops with premium audio cards could do good 16bit. I heard that some people use even consumer sound card or pro-video processing machines and get good 16Bit of them

Somehow I don't beleive that a high quality DAC can be implemented in computer enviroment.

> Max, perhaps I wrong but I do not remember you as a me-like-psycho who has interest in “abstract” audio.

I don't think you are privileged to call yourself a 'psycho', since you are a rational person and have very well defined goals and thats the oposite from the 'psycho' Smile

'Abstract Audio' - you mean an Audio you can't hear? Smile What you do is very practical audio (and I've heard your Audio result), and those on AA forum - they do Abstract Audio (afterall these are the same acronyms AA).

Anyway, I'll try to use my Creative digital out, if it gives fair results, then I'll upgrade to Lynx. Now I'm going to shop for a good DAC ...



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