In Reply to: Wait a minute here... posted by Presto on March 6, 2007 at 11:06:56:
<< you should be demanding bit-perfect playback. Otherwise why use a PC at all? >>If that's why you are using a PC, you are spending a lot of time worrying about nothing. The cheapest stand-alone CD player will deliver "bit perfect" playback.
The only reason programs like EAC need to re-read the data multiple times is because they are trying to read at 52x (or whatever). Then you will get read errors. But a normal CD player will never have read errors unless the disc is physically damaged.
For more info on this, go to the Stereophile website and look at some of the old articles written by Robert Harley in the early '90s.
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