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Rhyno,

Never used dbpower amp, however it looks like there is a support forum where you may post your question here.

I have a Plextor USB writer and use Plextools to do all my ripping and writing and here's why.

Have fun.

ok, figured out that i burned a PC disc and not an audio disc. 20 min later, i'm listening to 5-4-72 paris on my main rig.

holy sh*t! this is the greatest thing a deadhead could hope for!

next question: i gather that my cheap burner built into my laptop is not optimal and will lead to increased write errors (found a few already...how uncool) and jitter that will compromise staging / sonics.

any recs on an outbound burner thats suited for burning shows?

btw, this is the greatest thread of all. its free music. rlwainwright, thanks for the info!

rc

Rhyno, don't want to tell you how to spend your money, but from the looks of your system you might have enough $$ to try a computer to DAC setup that will bypass the whole disc burning issue.

Herman,

Here is THE resource for shows in circulation... Dead and many others!

http://db.etree.org/etree_shnlist.php

Note that etree only lists losslessly encoded recordings.

h*ly s***, sums up the response of myself and more pointedly my Deadhead friends!
Not tried using it for any of the downloaded concerts but Exact Audio Copy is freeware and I have had very good results burning from commercial cd's.
I'm going to an external re-writer now as my learned friend pointed out that EAC may sound good but it's hunting back & forward to correct errors will kill the drive in my laptop very quickly - ouch !

Going to Nespa and Audiodesk the blanks before burning with EAC to see how good this gets - overkill really as I find some of these downloads as real as it gets, chair squeaking, audience farting and all.
Great music, great fun and thank goodness lots of bands/artists are happy to share their music for free - a big thank you to them all!