Yes bad cd, just the laptop cd drive can read with greater error checking (parity?) to achieve skip free playing.
It’s scary how much is clipped away from music with compression and poor playback equipment. Sometimes the right setup really changes the song.
vxx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The issue with CDs isn’t the compression.
CDs are getting read at a rate of 44000 times a second. Sometimes this frequency will cancel out the Digital information on the CD under circumstances that can’t be stopped. The better the correction of this naturally occurring error, the more natural the CD sounds.
That’s a pretty bad explanation, but that’s the main reason CDs can sound way different to the LP.