So I see that one of my all time favourite albums get relased on this "new" format: http://www.discogs.com/Depeche-Mode-Vio ... se/5622118
But I dunno, is it worth it? I can't hear much distortion on the CD I already have, written with the good 'ol IR laser:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-spec_CD
Blu-Spec CDs?
- KVRAF
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- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
- KVRAF
- 15278 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
CD is a digital format. When it was invented in the eighties, the propaganda said you could scratch it and empty an ashtray on it and it would still play. Because it has error correction mechanisms built in for cases where zeroes are read as ones or vice versa.
If I burn an audio CD at full speed at home, then the last songs may get read errors. It just sounds "wrong" and slightly distorted. Not the start (close to the hole) but only the end (close to the edge) because nowadays the rotation speed is not altered anymore as it shoud be. So what do I do: I burn them at lowest speed, and I get no read errors anymore. Presto perfect digital sound reproduction!
Printed CDs are produced different: these are copied from a master disk. Printing errors are not toleratable, and are excluded from the process since its very beginning. Fitting more data on the same surface required smaller holes for BlueRay. But a CD pressed with this technology should sound EXACTLY THE SAME as your original copy (provided that one did not become defective over time, and provided they used the same master)
If I burn an audio CD at full speed at home, then the last songs may get read errors. It just sounds "wrong" and slightly distorted. Not the start (close to the hole) but only the end (close to the edge) because nowadays the rotation speed is not altered anymore as it shoud be. So what do I do: I burn them at lowest speed, and I get no read errors anymore. Presto perfect digital sound reproduction!
Printed CDs are produced different: these are copied from a master disk. Printing errors are not toleratable, and are excluded from the process since its very beginning. Fitting more data on the same surface required smaller holes for BlueRay. But a CD pressed with this technology should sound EXACTLY THE SAME as your original copy (provided that one did not become defective over time, and provided they used the same master)
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