Burnin CDs? Sound loss/degration question
Buckingham has it right except for the $1000 CD Recording. The new Yamaha recordings make great CDs. I just bought one. It claims it can burn at some ridiculous rate, but I use it at 1x for audio and 8x for data. The audio sounds fantastic. As to where to get Mitsui CD-Rs: http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/default.asp |
It is possible to make bit-perfect copies with a computer, and pretty easy to prove to yourself that you did so correctly. I wouldn't worry about anything else until you go through the steps to prove or disprove this capability. My opinion is that if you're getting bit-perfect copies, you'll have no sound degradation and, by implication, if you're experiencing sound degradation, that you're doing something that causes the copy to not be bit perfect (ie, running it through the sound card). Many disagree with this - speed of burning, type of CDR, etc. also being seen as key variables. They may be correct, but the accurate copies is what I'd check first. |
My cd copies sound very,very good and most people probably would say that they sound the same as the cd. But-I am used to my system and how the real cd sounds on it and the copy has a slight loss of air. In the car and on my other system they sound pretty much the same. I always burn at slow speed and burn to hard drive first. |
there are many places on line to get the mitsui's, just go through a search engine and compare prices. As for quality I have copied over 200 cd's and I have found by comparing directly with the discs going at the same time you virtually can not tell the difference. I have found that the main thing is to first copy the disc onto a hard drive and then put the music onto a cd-r, that way you are not dealing with buffer zones. On scratched discs this can become a problem. It once took me an hour to upload a 43 minute disc with a bad scratch that played perfectly on my cd player. And you could not tell the difference in a straight comparison. So much on sound can be subjective but if you record your discs to your hard drive first and have somebody else handle the cd comparison test and all you do is listen you should not be able to tell a difference. If so maybe you should submit a resume to Steve Hoffman |
