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Old 16th Oct 2017, 6:30 pm   #210
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Default Re: Audiophoolery. 'Cable Break In' - I never knew that!

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Originally Posted by Craig Sawyers
CIRC error correction will deal with with significant random and burst errors. But it finds it difficult to deal with systematic errors that tend to cause timing skews as a result of mechanical resonances, or any effect that tends to impact on the raw analogue data stream.
As I said, the data going to the DAC has been clocked by a crystal. Uncorrectable errors are rare. Hence we have perfect data at the right time.

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Prof Malcolm Hawkesford at the University of Essex has a good demonstration in which he ac couples the servo signals on a CD player, amplifies them, and demonstrates that they have a distorted version of the analogue audio stream impressed on them. Now this is quite a while ago, and it escapes me whether this was as a result of an electrical coupling mechanism, or an acoustic phenomenon because of the acoustic environment from loudspeakers.
I treat with suitable caution any claims made by Hawkesford, and any deductions made from those claims.
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