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In the Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player
Post Subject: Computer CD readers were made to read data and not audioPosted by ghpicard on: 12/21/2008
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Hi Romy,
IMO, the reason for you to get that feeling is that from the beginning they were made to read data and not audio, thus some jitter was (and is) not considered an issue, as soon as it can be corrected.
The internal CD drive audio out (analog and sometimes SPDIF too) should not be considered a good quality one exactly by that reason, as it was built in just to provide some multimedia capabilities to the units.
On the subject of the thread, the computer just reads whatever amounts it has been set up to buffer from the CD (many times it corrects the data in a transparent way) and then writes it to the HDD under control of the program (EAC, for example). On playing the file, the USB DAC has a clock of its own and thus it is its jitter and not that of the CD reader that you will hear/feel.
Why do you suppose that by reading at 1X will yield better results when ripping / sending data to USB ?
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