Ah magic pebble man. Quick with the ad-homs, quick with the deflections, slow as as a dead tortoise at providing a reasoned argument.
So magic pebble man, if the CD is ripped offline, we know the following factually:
- Reed-solomon error coding will tell us within a bit grouping (hundred of bits) if there is an error for a given number of wrong bits, and if there are few enough wrong bits, how to correct them.
- The number of bits in a grouping is large enough (hundreds) that false error is virtually impossible
- That if the number of error bits is small enough, the correction will be perfect. i.e. the data that comes out will be exactly what was intended to come out.
- On reasonable quality CDs, the number of bit errors that cannot be corrected is very small, i.e. a few per CD. (If you scratch your CD all bets are off).
- That if the CD is ripped offline, then any timing irregularities, power draw irregularities, etc. from the transport and ECC section that could impact the sound (in a poorly designed system) are eliminate.
So, given all those, please tell us magic pebble man, how your argument holds any water.
I don't really expect I will get a meaningful reply. I am sure whatever you respond back will be one of a) more insults, b) an answer that ignores all the points I raised, or c) something completely unrelated and probably coupled with an insult. Of course, you may see that you were wrong (sort of like the RF frequency things and power) and just choose not to reply or admit your error.