Sinister: Vorsprung Durch Technik

[Keith Watson]

Technical competence

> <<A CD player reads a single circuit on a CD and the sum of all
> the bits on that circuit doesn't match the checksum stored at the end
> of that circuit then it will skip. All oversampling CD players do is
> attempt to read the circuit a number of times in an attempt to get it
> correct before actually playing it, they will also skip if unable to
> match the checksum.>>


Oops, indeed I should keep this sort of shite in the comfort of my own home.
This was more of a reply to the original point about CD's sounding worse was
made by one Cateran of Glasgow who's got a strange fetish about taking the
piss out of people who aren't as "knowledgable" as he is on matters
technical, which I'd say is pretty sad for a 35 year old.



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