Kij - getting a difference between re-written CDROM and a commercially made CD depends on a lot of things:
1) use Mitsui Gold audio master disk
2) clean the disk well using a good treatment before burning
3) use a good reader and CD burner at 1X or 2X speed, such as Plextor or Yamaha - I used one with a Superclock modded into it.
4) Rip with dbpower amp on PC or XLD on Mac with Accurate Rip enabled
If you do all of these, you should definitely hear a big improvement in the copy, unless of course your CD player is CDROM-based and reclocking the data out of memory, like the Parasound and a couple others.
Steve N.
Empirical Audio
1) use Mitsui Gold audio master disk
2) clean the disk well using a good treatment before burning
3) use a good reader and CD burner at 1X or 2X speed, such as Plextor or Yamaha - I used one with a Superclock modded into it.
4) Rip with dbpower amp on PC or XLD on Mac with Accurate Rip enabled
If you do all of these, you should definitely hear a big improvement in the copy, unless of course your CD player is CDROM-based and reclocking the data out of memory, like the Parasound and a couple others.
Steve N.
Empirical Audio