DAC measurements explained?

@geoffkait

What would you say to those that rip CDs using their computer’s drive and those using dedicated transports, yet they use the same checking software and database to verify the rips are identical?

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.

@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.

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

Sorry astel... Even digital program CDs and DVD use CORRECTION stuff in the files... so no, the read off CD program software is not bit perfect 99.999999999999 either. They use similar interleaving and error correction as music CDs and DVDs.THere can actually be a lot of errors in the disc read and the automatic correction sort out the errors. Using the same sort of interleaved packet based reading, with the same different length pits and lands..