I’ve had this CD for ages. Decades. It would always skip at a certain parts on two of its tracks. I’ve never in my life heard the full CD because of this reason, always having to skip forward to the next track.
I’ve listened to it on at least four different devices, among them a very large Sony home stereo system. I’ve always thought the CD was faulty.
But today, I ripped the CD on a cheap old laptop and guess what. For the first time in my life I heard the whole uninterrupted tracks. What is this sorcery? Can someone explain?
Yes bad cd, just the laptop cd drive can read with greater error checking (parity?) to achieve skip free playing.
It’s scary how much is clipped away from music with compression and poor playback equipment. Sometimes the right setup really changes the song.
The issue with CDs isn’t the compression, since music in CDs isn’t compressed.
CDs are getting read at a rate of 44000 times a second. Sometimes this frequency will cancel out the Digital information on the CD under circumstances that can’t be stopped. The better the correction of this naturally occurring error, the more natural the CD sounds.
That’s a pretty bad explanation, but that’s the main reason CDs can sound way different to LPs.