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Japanese Zep CD's-the sound remains the same

Despite misleading info. elsewhere on Audiogon I can assure Audiogoners that the Zeppelin back catalogue has not been touched since Page oversaw the remastering back in 1990.

The Japanese CD's have lovely packaging but the sound quality is identical to the existing remasters.
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seandtaylor99
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With the wide availability of reclocking DACs that pretty much eliminate jitter problems I can't understand how the manufacturing process would affect the sound the CD. Unless the CD is so poorly manufactured that the error correction coding cannot correct all errors (which I find hard to believe).
seandtaylor99
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I have no difficulty believing that manufacturing differences exist, nor that these differences affect the lifespan of CDs (though I've yet to have a single CD go bad on me in 20+ years). I also can see that they might affect sound quality in a poorly designed CD player (with marginal tracking, error correction, and jitter suppression).

What I would like an explanation of is how this effects the sound. Has anyone shown that errors make it past the error correction coding ? Has anyone done double blind proofs of difference with a reclocking DAC ?
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