Heres an idea which owes a lot to work done by Audio Physic in Germany:
Take one CD-Rom drive (or DVD player, if you have one lying around); read content of CD onto hard disc drive. Read CD data into RAM chip; decode content of RAM chip via PC sound card.
Apparently, one of the larger problems with CD as currently implemented is that data have to be read and decoded on the fly, i.e., while the disc is spinning. Audio Physic say that reading the data from a solid state memory greatly reduces all manner of errors, including jitter.
I would love to have a CD player like that. The basic bits should not be that hard to assemble. However, wed need a suitable display for the dedicated computer, and, more importantly, some software for implementing all of this.
Software-wise, I am an absolute ignoramus. Is there a forum member whod volunteer to write this? Linux should be a suitable basis.
Markus
Take one CD-Rom drive (or DVD player, if you have one lying around); read content of CD onto hard disc drive. Read CD data into RAM chip; decode content of RAM chip via PC sound card.
Apparently, one of the larger problems with CD as currently implemented is that data have to be read and decoded on the fly, i.e., while the disc is spinning. Audio Physic say that reading the data from a solid state memory greatly reduces all manner of errors, including jitter.
I would love to have a CD player like that. The basic bits should not be that hard to assemble. However, wed need a suitable display for the dedicated computer, and, more importantly, some software for implementing all of this.
Software-wise, I am an absolute ignoramus. Is there a forum member whod volunteer to write this? Linux should be a suitable basis.
Markus