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Topic: [TOS #8] From: CD's weak error correction - artefacts on bought CD (Read 1167 times) previous topic - next topic
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[TOS #8] From: CD's weak error correction - artefacts on bought CD

Quote from: mixminus1 on
Expand on "poor-sounding" - what do you mean, exactly?

Well... I'd like to stick to the scientific side of things, rather than falling into the old "audiophile trap" of trying to put personal perceptions and feelings about a given audio source into words.

Quote from: mixminus1 on
Yes, the Red Book standard allows CD players to interpolate new samples on-the-fly if the original data can't be recovered, but to have so many consecutive unrecoverable errors that said interpolation causes an actual audible change in the overall tonal balance of a CD - and yet without any skips - seems highly unlikely.

I'd have to disagree here.
For comparison purposes, I recently made a number of insecure CD rips with AudioGrabber, then cleaned the discs (they were in average condition, with some fingerprints etc.) and re-ripped them accurately with EAC. There were no skips, yet on my better-sounding CD's, the improvement in quality was very noticible. Subtracting the AudioGrabber copies from the EAC ones in a WAV editor (after manually correcting the offsets) confirmed that there were indeed differences between them.

However, regardless of whether you think interpolated samples created to hide unrecovered ones will create an audible change, my original question remains valid, and the answer is a simple yes or no.