DAC measurements explained?

You’ve learned my lessons well, grasshopper. See, it’s not really complex, after all. 🤗

The data on the CD is physical not 1s and 0s, the laser reading process is analog and the error correction codes doesn’t correct all errors. But, hey, what do you want for nothing?

astelmaszek68 posts03-02-2019 9:12am@geoffkait And yet software was installed off CDs for years and installs worked 99.99999999% of the time. Even one bit being read wrong can render an entire software package unusable and somehow it didn’t happen. Voodoo.

>>>>>Yes, interesting, isn’t it? Yet, we audiophiles have been improving the sound of CDs for almost as long as they’ve been around.

By the way, another good argument for the perfection of CDs is buffering, like in my Sony Walkman portable CD player that supposedly makes the player immune from error. But guess what? It’s not. Looks like you fell for the Big Scam - “ Perfect Sound Forever”

Guess what? Reed and Solomon were not (rpt not) audiophiles. They were just some old guys hired to create the illusion that CDs worked perfectly.

“It’s what I choose to believe.” - Dr. Elizabeth Shaw in Prometheus

That’s what they all say. The original CD was supposedly perfect, too. Or it might be a clue that CDs aren’t perfect after all.