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Originally posted by Pio2001
It depends if the consistent error is isolated. If so, any drive should interpolate it the same way. And CIRC is designed so as it is very hard to have contiguous errors.
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Right ... CDS200 works that way ... isolated and repeated CU errors which will be treated
differently by most drives.
CIRC itself IMHO has been invented with a single paramount object ... to make occuring errors due to media degradation/scratches/fingerprints
inaudible ... nothing more, nothing less. C1 errors can be fully corrected, as well as C2 if there are not too many of them ... otherwise, Interpolation/Muting/Holding/Skipping will kick in with different quality levels of error correction/concealment capabilities according to the chipset manufacturer.
If the music industry would have chosen a different format 25 years ago, they would probably have had less available space on a CD (see advanced yellow book error correction) but more redundant data that could be used for error correction and
not error concealment ... but no one could (or wanted to) foresee the problems we are facing now with problematic media or dying CDR's (optical or magnetic pcm studio tech was brand new at that time as well so no experience with older media was available) ...
For the time being, I ripped the same erraneous track in 24 different combinations (drive/software/speeds) now ... and i will carry on ... there is some SP/DIF recording to do ... ;-)