Comblen@... a écrit :

> Does this mean that with a good/any/most PC CD players (or burners, known
for
> a better quality in extraction) with a digital output, this would work too ?

It will work with good CD ROMs, that can load and play the CD. But these ones
are likely to be able to extract it anyway, so why bother with the digital
output in this case ?
It could be useful if the drive can bypass the false TOC/Multisession/Wrong
sync markers protection, but still extracts with clicks (EFM protection), in
that case, play the CD in analogue mode (Windows CD Player), and record it in
a sound editor via the digital input of the soundcard.

With an external hifi player, it will work more often (but some hifi players
can't read some protected CDs).

But in this case, to get a good copy, you must use a soundcard that is able
to sync its clock on the digital input. Creative and Hercules soundcards
can't do that. They perform an "asynchronous sample rate conversion" at the
digital input, that spoil the sound quality.
You must use a soundcard like the Maudio audiophile, Midiman Delta, Terratec
EWX / 6fire, Marian Marc, Echo Mia, Hontech DSP etc
In they setting, switch the digital playback clock from "internal" to
"digital input" in order to get a faithful copy of the digital input.

Pio2001
26 m France