SD card transports

[Basil]

Put both files into something like Audacity, invert one and combine them.
Admire the flat line and the silence.

That would work.

 

[Jimbo]

Something that occurred to me in relation to SD card transports is the possibility for data corruption to introduce sound changes. When a CD is ripped to a hard disk the data is very robust. If the data becomes corrupt after it has been written, the system will not be able to access it because the disk will have detected the errors at the physical level. You will know that something is wrong because there will be glitches in your playback, and, perhaps, your computer might even crash. Assuming that your rip has been a good one ââ'¬â€œ and there are plenty of easy ways to verify that ââ'¬â€œ the data that you put onto your hard disk should be an exact replica of the data on your CD because at this point you are doing nothing except writing 0s and 1s. It is when you come to convert this data into the analogue domain that the fun starts and you have some possibilities for variations.

If you rip your CD to something like an SD card transport, I think that you will not have the benefit of Reed-Solomon code data checking which you have with a hard disk. Your data could become corrupted and could still be accessed. Your rip could, perhaps, sound different from a rip to a hard disk. You might like it better, of course, because there is nothing in the rulebook that says that you must prefer the sound of the original to the sound of a slightly corrupted copy!

These are just some thoughts and they should not be taken as statements of fact. I might be wrong and I'd be interested to hear what other people think.

Actually i downloaded EAC to have a go which is recommended to use with this SD transport. Now it claims to be an exact copy of the cd. Well may be so i don't. It's the same with all formats i suppose. There are compromises and arguments for and against all of them. We are all looking for Utopia and to reach the summit. but i doubt we will ever get there.

 

[Jimbo]

Another thing HdV i have copied cd's and i can't hear a difference from the original. It may be so because i always clean them before i copy. Some swear they can hear degradation on the copy but i just stick it in the computer and let it do its thing while others play about with copy speed and wot nots.

 

[lAmBoY]

Jimbo, you are good snake oil fodder.

 

[Jimbo]

Jimbo, you are good snake oil fodder.

I don't know what you mean but why don't you read the thread NEW FORUM ETHOS.

 

[lAmBoY]

No Im ok thanks.