Big source improvement using CD player

Buffering the data doesn’t prevent or correct the damage to data done when the laser attempts to read the physical data on the disc due to fluttering of the disc and scattered laser light getting into the photo detector. Buffering only stores the damaged data temporarily. The damage to the data and sound occurs in the first picosecond when the laser tries to read the data. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again. 🍳

I too have learned that really high quality CD players can sound as good as or better than some server/streamer/DAC front ends. However, it seems that it is the quality and cost of the CD player that matters. I have a Rotel RCD 991 player that was most certainly mid-fi. With the addition of a Dexa low jitter clock, Burson Audio discrete Opamp replacement, some cap upgrades and precision resistors in the signal path, the player is transformed. My 1st step toward high resolution audio was a Mac Mini running JRiver into a PS Audio NuWave DSD DAC. The MM/NuWave certainly provides for information, data if you will, but not more music. A CD player can have the advantage of potentially lower jitter. No cables, no USB/Toslink/SPDIF/AES etc. to corrupt the signal. My CD player makes me want to listen more and more carefully. It draws me in and helps me make an emotional connection with the music. It is just more enjoyable and "musical" ( a meaningless term, unless you have experienced directly the "thing" that makes your toe tap and has you singing along). A few dedicated CD players can be the basis for very high resolution and accurate audio systems. I have heard and enjoyed some Audio Research units that were amazing. Bryston, Hegel (I have not heard in my home) and others have made some focused "CD only" players that one might want to try. CDs, better than you might think they are.    

Except the error correction is designed to correct up to 4000 bit burst errors, hence why you have 0 tests or data to support your hypothesis even though this data would be ridiculously easy to obtain for almost free if not free. Without scratches unrecoverable errors are near nil with even a cheap transport.


CDRom only adds to the error correction of audio CD. They work, fluttering, scattering light and all, at 52x speed. Imagine that .....

Buffering the data doesn’t prevent or correct the damage to data done when the laser attempts to read the physical data on the disc due to fluttering of the disc and scattered laser light getting into the photo detector. Buffering only stores the damaged data temporarily. The damage to the data and sound occurs in the first picosecond when the laser tries to read the data. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again. 🍳

You’ve got an answer for everything. What about this, what about that? I am familiar with that game. 

I am not the one making the easily proven hypothesis for which you can offer no proof. Don't blame me for that. That is on you.