Physical degradation of CD's


Hello friends,

Please keep in mind that I am new to the digital world and I'm just curious about something....

I have just recently bought two Dac's.  As I've been trying to break them in, I've had a cd player spinning a cd 24/7 on repeat into the dac.

I'm wondering, does the cd laser constantly going over the same pits over and over again, somehow degrade the physical aspect of the cd layer that is being read by the laser?

I know that I wouldn't want to replay my precious vinyl over and over again, but in that case I'm physically dragging a diamond stylus through the record grooves.  

I have no idea if the laser does anything to the bits it's trying to read when kept on 24/7?

Thank you and best wishes to you all,

Don

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Showing 1 response by ghdprentice

No. Don’t worry, it will not hurt them. I remember the concern was over age and that the integrity of the info on disks was supposed to be only something like twenty years. I have CDs going back forty years without a problem.

 

My CDs like my vinyl no longer gets played since streaming now sounds as good or better, cost a fraction, and gives access to over ten million albums. They look nice covering my walls. Don’t forget to consider streaming before investing in any more physical media.