I didn’t know that Did you guys know that?


Looking through old Absolute Sound issues, I found this reply from Robert Harley to a letter:

"...Among those who have actually listened to CDs and CD-Rs copied from those CDs, the debate was settled long ago - CD-Rs sound better."

Is that a fact?
phaelon
National Geographic has documented that the last "fact" to appear in the Absolute Sound was in February of 1978. Neither HP or RH has troubled themselves with nasty little inconveniences like "facts" since.

It's an entertainment magazine, not journalism. Take it seriously at your own risk.
This is pretty much always the case when I have done it. I believe it is still a mystery why this is, but it does indeed seem to be true.
I have found them to be equal or better most of the time. The reason being you can control the burn rate and quality of the CD, assuming you are buying good media. Your homemade copies are actually burned buy a laser moving at a much slower rate and creating the peaks and valleys and not pressed by the thousands or millions at 100x.IME.YMMV:>)