[sdiy] OT: Scratchy CDs

[Michael Boracci]

Gents,
I read yet another article in TapeOP magazine about burning Cds for
pro-audio. According to the article, burning at 1x on critical audio CDs
reduces errors dramatically. ( Sorry, but my brain is toast and I can't
think of any jargon to throw in there.:)) However, at the very least jitter
errors are greatly reduced and apparently there is a lot more "digital
headroom" so the error correction facilities do not have to work as hard.
The same goes for disc-to-disc direct transfer. I have noticed a major
improvement when using cheap CD-R media at 1x. When using excellent media
the sound appeared to be more harmonically rich when burned at 1x. It just
takes forever.

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of john mahoney
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:57 AM
To: Ingo Debus; synth-diy
Subject: Re: [sdiy] OT: Scratchy CDs


> > The error correction process for an audio CD ...
>
> Does this error correction also work when a track is "ripped" (or
> however it's called) via a CD-ROM drive in a computer? ...

Eerror correction is part of the Red Book spec for audio CDs. So yes, it is
there on writeable CDs, too. The usual burn errors are not due to a simple
lack of error correction code.
--
john




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