| Haha, you got me! I don't think my CD player cost more than €850 though.
But seriously though, you can't compare like that unless you rip in realtime. Not relying on realtime means you can take all the time to re-read in case of errors when ripping.
In realtime playback on a CD player you might have cross interleaved coding but you don't have infinite time, hence the need for on the fly error correction.
A nice feature on my CD player is 3 filter settings on the D/A, off sounds very "Japanese" i.e. high freq happy, while 1 and 2 are gradually more filtered. 1 sounds best to my ears, a good compromise. But I always test with 0 (off). |