The data seems to be based on telemetry collected for a CD ripping software, which I'm slightly more inclined to believe is real than some mumbo jumbo about vinyl warmth or whatever.
> Drive: HL-DT-ST - BD-RE BH14NS48 (116 users): Submissions: 10260 accurate, 23 inaccurate, 99.7763 % accuracy
23 of these submissions come from a broken drive, or the disc is damaged to the point a correct read cannot be made. It's not that the drive is producing 99.7% accurate data, there are 10260 100% accurate submissions and there are 23 wrong submissions.
It's a binary state, either the drive is functional and the CD in decent condition, or the drive is broken/CD is damaged. Some drives may have a higher failure rate than other drives, but every drive is either 100% accurate or busted, there is no 95% accurate drive. That's just a broken drive.
Is an entire track inaccurate if a single sample is inaccurate? In that case then yeah, rather than measuring some level of audio purity, this is measuring your likelihood of getting a perfect rip before taking CD condition into account.
No. How good the drive is at reading marginal discs varies a lot between drives.
The problem is, these populations are not identical disks, and the error rates are low enough that we're not really sure we're seeing a good metric of this.
CD: The Weeknd - The Highlights
Drive: Pioneer BDR-XD05TB (not listed in my article)
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