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Half the information on CDs is analogue

I would like to argue that one of the reasons that some transports sound significantly better than others is because much of the information on a given CD is actually analogue (analog) information.
An excellent transport does not just read digital information: 1s and 0s (offs and ons); it must be sensitive enough to pick up the other information that has been stored as a physical property of the CD medium. This 'physical' information, like the tiny bumps in the groove of a vinyl record, is analogue information.

Before I say more I'd like to hear what others think.
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Sdatch, I have found this book very useful.

Principles of Digital Audio, fifth edition by Ken C. Pohlmann. McGraw-Hill.

I got it from the library. (It is $60 at Amazon.) It covers not only CD, but DVD, DVD-A, SACD, MP3 and a lot more. There is a good amount on transports as well.

It didn't make me an audio engineer but I did learn enough to calibrate my BS meter.

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