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D.M. Procida wrote:


In a hotel lobby today, I was leafing through an hi-fi magazine I
happened to see. It reviewed a CD player, opening with a sentence to the
effect that "the CD player as we know it may soon be dead".

This CD player (a Meridian, and rather expensive) apparently uses a
cheap CD-ROM drive to get the data off the disk, and can use the drive's
extra speed to read ahead and buffer it (allowing it for example to have
multiple goes at reading problematic areas of the disk) in pretty much
the way I suggested would be possible.

I assume it's this one:
https://www.meridian-audio.com/en/products/cd-players/reference-808v6/.

So maybe I'm not missing anything... although I do note that this
solution to the problem of playing CDs doesn't actually make the
business cheaper.

They aren't the only people who do this. The problem is that it simply
alters the area of operation. e.g. by reading at a higher speed the
bandwidth has to go up = more noise, etc. Thus increasing the read speed
means you increase the chance of errors that then require a re-read to deal
with. Ditto, more mechanical wobbles at higher wobble rates needing faster
servos, etc, etc.

The kinds of things that using cdparanoia from a terminal window tends to
show the user.

Jim

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