I hate to tread into the waters, and certainly dont want to design and teach the long class necessary to get to all this, so a few simple comments will do:
1. There are no bits on a CD. repeat after me "eight to fourteen modulation"2. A digital signal, primarily SPDIF which is source cloaked is a half-analog signal, with the amplitude digitized and the X-axis (timing) analog.3. Clock recovery or buffering/readout is impacted by many things including originating jitter and various types of noise4. That said, really good modern DACs using USB (asynch) reduce many of these problems by vast percentages.
Neither the hogwarts school of audio nor the "its all simple and really well understood" school (wrong twice!) are even close to right.
In general quit worrying about rippign speeds and CD media and get good files, on anything, transfer them over a DAC-clocked interface, galvanically isolated, and move along.
For the record i can get remarkable sounds from 320-384 kbps CBR MP3. OK, FLAC is better, but not much. HD - the jury is out, clearly good in the studio. I wonder if what hear is simple better master transfer when the jury is occasionally in, to cripple a metaphor.
G
1. There are no bits on a CD. repeat after me "eight to fourteen modulation"2. A digital signal, primarily SPDIF which is source cloaked is a half-analog signal, with the amplitude digitized and the X-axis (timing) analog.3. Clock recovery or buffering/readout is impacted by many things including originating jitter and various types of noise4. That said, really good modern DACs using USB (asynch) reduce many of these problems by vast percentages.
Neither the hogwarts school of audio nor the "its all simple and really well understood" school (wrong twice!) are even close to right.
In general quit worrying about rippign speeds and CD media and get good files, on anything, transfer them over a DAC-clocked interface, galvanically isolated, and move along.
For the record i can get remarkable sounds from 320-384 kbps CBR MP3. OK, FLAC is better, but not much. HD - the jury is out, clearly good in the studio. I wonder if what hear is simple better master transfer when the jury is occasionally in, to cripple a metaphor.
G