Posted 05/30/2007 at 09:12:33am

"Your test can be misleading. Using a cheap CD-drive to grab music data and make them play via "the finest consumer-level soundcard" as reference is not the real quality-alternative to MP3 listening. CD sound is compressed anyway (in term of dynamics) and represents a 25-year-old digital technology (which at the moment of its birth had its compromisses: low sample rate, low resolution). A cheap PC-CD-drive will read only a portion of that low-rate music data..." *cough*bullshit*cough* Any cheap PC CD drive will retrieve every last bit of every CD, barring bad scratching etc. How many programs fail to isntall due the CD drive read errors? How much data do people loe due to their drive not reading properly? You guessed it: absolutely fark all.