How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck?

Splaskin wrote:
"Burning on the fly results in better copies than burning from a hard drive."

Not a valid conclusion IMO. You said yourself that it is dependent on the hardware. I have found just the opposite to be true. With an external battery-powered burner, the computer makes superior copies to anything I have heard.

My technique is a bit different. I am placing the entire contents of the CD into RAM and burning directly from the memory. The RAM is faster than a hard drive and I believe less subject to timing errors.

Steve

Steve,

Do you use software that verifies that the content of the CD is transferred accurately, bit for bit, into the RAM? And that the burn from RAM to a CD-R is also accurate, bit for bit? Does the speed of the transfer to RAM and the speed of the burn from RAM matter as they do in the conventional duplication? Will your unit provide the flexibility to burn disk-at-once as well as one-track-at-a-time. The latter is convenient for making compilations. I was just getting ready to buy a CD duplicator, so, your announcement intrigues me. When will your unit be ready for marketing and what will be it's approximate cost?

Best Regards,
John

John,

I am not selling anything. Just an audiophile having fun with some computer knowledge. I build my own computers. The latest one was optimized for CD-R burning based on my experiences with two other computers. I got into this because I felt and still feel that stand alone duplicators are inferior to what can be made on an excellent computer. The software I am using is Plextools Pro XL. It can verify the data of the copy. I burn at 4X and read at 4X. Before burning, I defragment the memory with anther program.

I think you misunderstood me. I am using a computer for all of this with 2 Plextor Premium and 2 Plextor 716A drives.

As for the specs of the computer, that will all follow soon.

Steve

Steve, does any computer directly duplicate from the hard drive? I guess I thought everything went in through the RAM and out through the RAM.