Posted by GarMan [ 216.13.136.38 ] on October 12, 2004 at 16:21:55:

In Reply to: Re: What problem does that fix? posted by Dean Kukral on October 12, 2004 at 12:29:09:

I'm on Fred's side that damping can improve the performance of a CD player. Especially when you consider how a laser in a CDP reads information off a CD.

I'd also though that CD being a digital media would have its content read digitally (ie. reading 1's and 0's off the disk). But that's not true at all. The track on a CD consists of pits of various lengths and the laser reads the distance between the lips of each pit, which then is converted into a digital signal. To repeat, it does not COUNT and READ a series of 1's and 0's, but rather a physical distance between markers on a disk.

Considering how cheap the laser and plastic lens are in a typical CDP, it makes you question how accurate CDP reads content on a CD. Any unnecessary vibration has the potential to mess up this reading process to create a playback that is even lower in resolution.

Gar.

Replies:

• Re: What problem does that fix? - Wayne Parham 22:05:20 10/12/04 (0)
• Re: What problem does that fix? - Dean Kukral 16:49:58 10/12/04 (2)
  • Re: What problem does that fix? - GarMan 17:19:12 10/12/04 (1)
    • Actual Music Content - Dean Kukral 08:36:27 10/13/04 (0)