It would be wise NOT to pass over the parent of this reply.. this "technology" is BULLSHIT.. NOT POSSIBLE.. and yet there are hundreds of replies alledging the so-called "*COPIES* can damage your equipment"
READ THE PARENT. IT ISNT POSSIBLE. ITS COMMON KNOWLEDGE. APPARENTLY GROUP IGNORANCE IS BLISS.
Simply stated, this is not possible. All CD-DA discs are encoded (and interpreted) in the same 44100 Hz, 16 bit PCM format, giving a maximum of 32767 voltage steps on either side of equilibrium.. the result being that when fed thru a standard DAC, there is no possibility of creating some type of 'killer' audio frequency and/or harmonic sequence that would fry your equipment. The fact that people would even take something like this even remotely serious is absurd. Such a technology would require compliant hardware and supplemental DAC equipment designed to send signal flow with ridiculously high amperage.. and since I don't know of any home audio hardware components designed to deliberately damage your speakers and/or reciever (yet), it's pretty safe to say that your home reciever and/or speakers won't be exploding anytime soon.
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It would be wise NOT to pass over the parent of this reply.. this "technology" is BULLSHIT.. NOT POSSIBLE.. and yet there are hundreds of replies alledging the so-called "*COPIES* can damage your equipment" READ THE PARENT. IT ISNT POSSIBLE. ITS COMMON KNOWLEDGE. APPARENTLY GROUP IGNORANCE IS BLISS.
Simply stated, this is not possible. All CD-DA discs are encoded (and interpreted) in the same 44100 Hz, 16 bit PCM format, giving a maximum of 32767 voltage steps on either side of equilibrium.. the result being that when fed thru a standard DAC, there is no possibility of creating some type of 'killer' audio frequency and/or harmonic sequence that would fry your equipment. The fact that people would even take something like this even remotely serious is absurd. Such a technology would require compliant hardware and supplemental DAC equipment designed to send signal flow with ridiculously high amperage.. and since I don't know of any home audio hardware components designed to deliberately damage your speakers and/or reciever (yet), it's pretty safe to say that your home reciever and/or speakers won't be exploding anytime soon.