CDs sound better when recorded to tapes?

I have found the same thing....i am using a Nak DR- 10; have found the tapes sound better than the cd's.....much more detail in the lower range is revealed.....i have also found that when taping cd's, if the original source material is before the mid '60's, it will sound better on TDK SA w/dolby B than using Maxell XLII w/dolby b...I did an A/B comparison...i taped Reiner conducting Beethoven's 3rd Symphony from an RCA CD on both Maxell XLII and TDK SA... I found that although the Maxell sounded a bit "brighter", there wasn't as much "depth" in the lower registers, as with the TDK.....

The tapes in general, especially the tapes from cd's, sound much more "life-like", more natural, than the cd's.....

How is this "better than CD sound" possible if one is recording from a CD which "doesn't contain all of the information" in the first place? I thought that one can't replace or correct that which isn't there in the first place. Sort of punches a hole into "the source is the most important component" theory.

Bob P.

I've had a similar result with recording to reel-to-reel. Whether it be simply a smoothing of some of the "jaggies", a loss of information elsewhere, or whatever I've found that the reels are slightly more euphonic than the original source. That being said, I rarely use the reels nowadays due to the convenience factor.