On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:03:31 +0000, Ian Bell
wrote:

Wally wrote:

[original post missing from my server]

In article , Jim H

My point is, with digital better fidelity means better at recovering
data. If high-end dacs were good at this they would find it harder
to justify ridiculous CD transport prices.

How would you square this view with my earlier comment that, if a cheap CD
drive can deliver faultless computer data, then a cheap CD transport
should be able to do so as well? Do CD transports lack error correction
that one presumes is present in computer kit?


I think all decks are basicaly the same at recovering data, its the
conversion to analoguw where the differences lie.

Basically true, any competent player from £50 upwards will recover the
data with uncorrected (but still concealed) errors at a rate of less
than one per ten *million* samples, For audio purposes, I trust that
we can call this perfect.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering