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Need opinions on duping CD's

I'm not too tech savy so forgive my question if it's answer is obvious.
I'm making a best of Beatles CD from the Re-mastered Stereo and Mono CD sets.
I'm using a two drawer Harmon Kardon CDR20.
My question is: Am I recording a perfect dupe as far as sound quality, or am I being limitedby the HK's dac? If so, what's a better way? I have high end CD Players I could use.
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georgehifi's avatar
georgehifi
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First off don’t get later "compressed" re-masters or re-issues, get the original uncompressed versions.


Cheers George
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spatialking
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Yes, a much better way.   Download Exact Copy, which will cost you about $7 for a life time license.   Then  rip them onto a hard drive. either one on your PC or a USB drive, in either .WAV or .FLAC format.   You will need some space, so make it a big one.   The Exact copy will make a bit perfect copy of the music, something CD players don't always do.   Both formats are lossless, but the mild data compression in FLAC will save you a bit of hard drive space.   The trade off, if there is one, is the streamer will have to decompress and play the data on the fly, while the WAV file just streams.

Then make a play list of the songs you want and stream them to a decent DAC on your system.    Or, burn a CD or DVD with the wav files you want.
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georgehifi
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Download Exact Copy

EAC it might make an "exact copy", but it’s usually of the later re-issues compressed releases that one has, or borrowed, unless you look up the non-compressed early release CD on DRDB and exact copy it if you can hunt it down used..
https://dr.loudness-war.info/

Cheers George
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