Machina Dynamica New Dark Matter CD and Blu Ray tray treatment?

Glupson,

Yes. Like all software, no two programs do things exactly the same way. There are only a few ways to do it well and many ways to do it poorly.

I use DBpoweramp. CDs can take much longer to rip with perfect rip where no errors are allowed.

if you allow errors and there are, DBPoweramp will complete the track rip faster but show that the track was not ripped perfectly. It determines what the right rip is by comparing to a database of other rips. Actual rip time will still vary with low quality, defective or damaged disks taking much longer still to rip than high quality ones of similar play time.

I find in very few cases where dbpoweramp indicates errors in teh rip are those errors clearly audible. They tend to be minor in most cases, but I have had some very bad CDs I have ripped and allowed errors with just to be able to get a rip at all and you can sometimes hear some defects in teh sound clearly. Not very often in practice though.

Thanks guys,

I was secretly hoping it would be "more or less the same" so I never ever get tempted to redo all my CDs. Appropriate metadata and all that, I need another lifetime.

I noticed people praise jRiver often, I am not sure if it was ripping or other things, so I guess I should give it a try.

Thanks again.

Back to black holes and future of the world.

Please advise if and when anyone tries ripping using NDM. Much obliged.

As impossible as it might sound, this thread has made me less intelligent. 

Well, it did make me think about how a laser disk reader works and what effect changes in light levels detected could have.

In the perfect case, the sensor is properly calibrated to detect light levels reflected by its laser from the discs surface perfectly and that light signal is converted to the digital electronic signal and sent downstream perfectly.

Of course nothing is perfect. Each device will vary from that ideal but good devices will do it with some design tolerance that helps assure accurate results.

Also of course performance of all devices declines over time so a 10 year old device no longer functions as well as a new one in most cases.

Now, introduce anything that affects the actual light levels detected by absorbing some of it, and if enough is absorbed, a change in the output should occur and could be audible if large enough.

Regarding Dark Matter there is a chance it could result in less light getting detected like any material that in theory absorbs light at the right wavelengths.

As for how much it actually does or if it does how it sounds, for better or for worse, all bets are still off. Its all just hearsay at this point. It might make a difference at least in some cases, but no way to know. There are a couple of reporters saying it did. So there you go.