How could there be any way to improve on what's on a CD, good or bad? Once it is recorded, that's it. It is cast in stone, or rather in the substrate of the CD. The poorly recorded take is represented by what's on the CD (or in the case of the LP, the grooves) and there's is no going back. We can try to fit the sound to what we think we like by equalizers, cables, amplification, speakers. But all we will be doing is attempting to tone down the damage.
Even if you get all the bits off the CD extracted by the RUR process that the Memory Player uses, you still have the bad recording that was imbedded on that CD.
Now, if you are talking about badly damaged CDs, then the RUR process can, conceivably, produce more information during the extraction process since it looks at the CD tracks many times and not just once as a regular CD player does, ecept the latest Rega model. But that's not RUR and quite another story, though very effective for producing good playback. But even the Rega can not improve on what's on the CD.
But since the RUR proces can extract practically all the info on a CD it is conceivable that with this maximized info the CD will sound better than any other read mechanism. This, and the fact that the extracted info is being played back from the "flash" memory in the Memory Player (where the jitter characteristics are better than in a hard drive), will lead the listener to believe that the RUR process is contributing to making this bad recording sound better. But that better is still limited by what has been imbedded in the spirals of the CD. You can't do better than what has been recorded.
My aplogies for repeating myself.
And, yes, I have heard the MP many times in numerous systems. I am not talking about theory only.
Even if you get all the bits off the CD extracted by the RUR process that the Memory Player uses, you still have the bad recording that was imbedded on that CD.
Now, if you are talking about badly damaged CDs, then the RUR process can, conceivably, produce more information during the extraction process since it looks at the CD tracks many times and not just once as a regular CD player does, ecept the latest Rega model. But that's not RUR and quite another story, though very effective for producing good playback. But even the Rega can not improve on what's on the CD.
But since the RUR proces can extract practically all the info on a CD it is conceivable that with this maximized info the CD will sound better than any other read mechanism. This, and the fact that the extracted info is being played back from the "flash" memory in the Memory Player (where the jitter characteristics are better than in a hard drive), will lead the listener to believe that the RUR process is contributing to making this bad recording sound better. But that better is still limited by what has been imbedded in the spirals of the CD. You can't do better than what has been recorded.
My aplogies for repeating myself.
And, yes, I have heard the MP many times in numerous systems. I am not talking about theory only.