Possible advantages and possible disadvantages to this.
Advantages: CD’s are made with stampers, which wear over time and are periodically replaced with a new one during a production run. But when burned by a laser, pits and land edges are more clearly defined which results in fewer errors on playback. Also, a few products are available that help with the refractive properties of polycarbonate (like UltraBit and others).
Disadvantages: These might be larger and more numerous. One is that whenever you move digital content from one place to another, you introduce more error. Yeah, some of that might be purely digital in nature (processing), but likely most of it, even though it may actually result in more (digital) jitter, will have analog origins. Electrical losses, even through top grade gear/wiring will still occur. When traveling in a wire, digital signals are in an analog form, not "ones and zeros", and are as subject to noise and distortions as much as about any other analog signal. Also, things like power supply noise, especially in ’non-audiophile’ gear like computers, will contribute their impact to sq as well.The mistake would be to think that if you only take care of possible digital influences, that you are then home free. Power treatments for the gear concerned, good wiring (whatever you think that qualification should be for your purposes in this regard), will likely minimize the worst of those. My guess is the audible differences may be small. but it just depends on how picky you are about that kind of thing.
Bottom line: It may not sound exactly ’wholly worse’ or ’wholly better’...but, maybe a little ’different’. Whether the effort and expense to fix it would be worth it would still be up to you. IOW, you might still have to try something like that and see, in order to know.
Advantages: CD’s are made with stampers, which wear over time and are periodically replaced with a new one during a production run. But when burned by a laser, pits and land edges are more clearly defined which results in fewer errors on playback. Also, a few products are available that help with the refractive properties of polycarbonate (like UltraBit and others).
Disadvantages: These might be larger and more numerous. One is that whenever you move digital content from one place to another, you introduce more error. Yeah, some of that might be purely digital in nature (processing), but likely most of it, even though it may actually result in more (digital) jitter, will have analog origins. Electrical losses, even through top grade gear/wiring will still occur. When traveling in a wire, digital signals are in an analog form, not "ones and zeros", and are as subject to noise and distortions as much as about any other analog signal. Also, things like power supply noise, especially in ’non-audiophile’ gear like computers, will contribute their impact to sq as well.The mistake would be to think that if you only take care of possible digital influences, that you are then home free. Power treatments for the gear concerned, good wiring (whatever you think that qualification should be for your purposes in this regard), will likely minimize the worst of those. My guess is the audible differences may be small. but it just depends on how picky you are about that kind of thing.
Bottom line: It may not sound exactly ’wholly worse’ or ’wholly better’...but, maybe a little ’different’. Whether the effort and expense to fix it would be worth it would still be up to you. IOW, you might still have to try something like that and see, in order to know.
