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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player

Post Subject: EAC, Mr. Hansen etc.Posted by jessie.dazzle on: 2/24/2009

Yes, excellent.

And looong.

manisandher wrote :

"...I disagree with Charles Hansen who states, "[EAC] slows things down drastically, so you are probably better off just using some other program and setting it to rip at 4x or something like that." This is NOT true if you bypass the cache of the drive..."

Technically I might agree with manisandher; we might not be “better off” using another application.

However, in defense of Mr. Hansen (Ayre Acoustics), lets assume we want to rip a CD using EAC (or any other application with error correction) : It takes time to verify that data is or is not corrupt, and if corrupt, then more time to analyze and rewrite a corrected version of the data. During this interval, data is normally cached. When this is no longer an option (as with cache bypassed), unless the data is going to be stored (cached) in system ram, or temporarily written to the HDD (unlikely), the only alternative would be slowing down the information gathering… In other words, slowing down the rip speed.

I think that was Mr. Hansen’s point.

Depending on the systems capacity to multitask, EAC may not slow gathering all the way down to 4X.

The comments regarding EAC aside, I very much appreciated the candid nature of Hansen’s comments.

I made a point of comparing the different positions taken on preferred data transport interface (the first question)… And then, while bearing the expressed position in mind, I attempted to weigh the BS factor throughout the remainder of the interviewee's comments.

jd*

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