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I'm not dreaming - these are great CD copies

I have an out of town friend who's given me some CD-Rs that he's made by simply copying music off of red book CDs. The music quality is extremely good - better than I'm used to hearing from my red book CDs. He's not an audiophile and has no idea what format is being utilized e.g. Lossless, etc.
Question - Can you really improve the quality of music from a red book CD by simply copying to some other format? If so, I'm boxing up all 300 of my CDs and asking my friend to copy make copies for me.
rockyboy
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jafant
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I agree w/ GK. I have never burned a copy that sounded worse than the original CD. Not sure which codec iTunes uses, again, never a poor copy.  I only use made in Japan Fuji CD-r blanks.

Happy Listening!

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ozzy
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I am in the process of copying my favorite CD's using my PS Direct Stream memory player and dac and the results are outstanding!

ozzy
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ozzy
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A little more information may be needed to my last post.
I am copying to a Tascam DA 3000 then I am adding them to my hardrive.
But, the copies do sound better than the originals. Which is hard to believe...

ozzy
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