Full Version: DC Offset
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QUOTE(Bourne @ Sep 1 2006, 07:34) 
Is this something to worry about? He's talking about a FLAC rip that's on a torrent site. But I don't think it's true, since HA tutorials teach the ripping is lossless.
I think that whoever wrote this mixed up DC-offset with read offset. DC-offset means that you have a fixed value added to all samples, so that in a wave editor the waveform would be displaced up or down. This definitely does not happen when ripping a CD (except maybe if you do it analog). Read offset means that, depending on the cd-drive, the ripped tracks start and end a fixed number of samples too early or too late.
IIRC the ammount of this shift is sometimes around 200 samples or so, which is about 0,005 seconds. I don't think that's anything to worry too much about, but if you want to be on the safe side, you can e.g. use AccurateRip to find out your drive's read offset and have it compensated by your ripper of choice.
IIRC the ammount of this shift is sometimes around 200 samples or so, which is about 0,005 seconds. I don't think that's anything to worry too much about, but if you want to be on the safe side, you can e.g. use AccurateRip to find out your drive's read offset and have it compensated by your ripper of choice.
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