meat01
Headphoneus Supremus
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The CD player laser is so much more precise and the platter is already suspended in such a way that isolation is not necessary. If the CD player needed isolation, you would hear the laser hit the wrong pit in the CD. The laser is optical and produces 1 and 0s. Also it does not physically touch the disc. Vibration does not cause a 1 to be a 0 and vice versa. I just don't think CD player vibration is audible. Sure it may vibrate, but the laser still hits the right section of the CD and the sound comes out the same to our ears.
A turntable is a mechanical cartridge making physical contact to a record.
Btw, why vibration isolation for turn tables but not for cd players? The cds are being read by a laser sitting on an analog driven motor being spun by an analog motor. |
The CD player laser is so much more precise and the platter is already suspended in such a way that isolation is not necessary. If the CD player needed isolation, you would hear the laser hit the wrong pit in the CD. The laser is optical and produces 1 and 0s. Also it does not physically touch the disc. Vibration does not cause a 1 to be a 0 and vice versa. I just don't think CD player vibration is audible. Sure it may vibrate, but the laser still hits the right section of the CD and the sound comes out the same to our ears.
A turntable is a mechanical cartridge making physical contact to a record.