Burnin CDs? Sound loss/degration question


General concensus when copying digital material is that there is no loss of sound quality...however...when I burn Cdrs on my pc...from other Cds...not mp3s...they sound compressed and dull...my fried has a professional TASCAM cd burner...and the results are about the same...any thoughts?
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Showing 2 responses by sogood51

It could be in the burning process and not in the data transfer. Cds are stamped with pits and cdrs are made by heating up some sort of dye. Cdr does not use the same dye as cdrw. Some of the older cd players that could not play cdrs could play cdrws and vice versa. The lasers may not read the dye as easly as they do the pits. Could this cause a loss of sound quality maybe? I don't know but something does, thats for sure. I wonder if you played a wave file off your hard drive bypassing your pc sound card to your stereo system it would sound any better than than the same file burned onto a cdr and played over the same system in an a/b test?
My cd copies sound very,very good and most people probably would say that they sound the same as the cd. But-I am used to my system and how the real cd sounds on it and the copy has a slight loss of air. In the car and on my other system they sound pretty much the same. I always burn at slow speed and burn to hard drive first.