Re: MD: CD-DA

[matthew c. mead]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:31:33AM -0400, las wrote:
> Either I misread something or the author wrote it incorrectly, but he stated
> that an MD copy could never sound as good as the original CD.  then he said
> something to the effect, neither could an CD-DA??
> 
> Just what did he mean by that??   A CD-DA is a standard audio CD.  Even a copy
> created on a computer of the original should be just as good.  You are not
> dealing with compression here.  Just transferring  files.

If the digital audio on a CD were stored digitally, you would be
just transferring files.  Rather, the CDDA is stored with an RF
encoded carrier wave on the disc.  In other words, it's stored in
analog.  Different transports will come up with slightly
different sets of CDDA after reading it.


-matt

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