I bought a second CDRW drive to use for digital audio extraction. This Mad Dog 52x drive is supposed to do DAE up to 52x. I am using CDex, and this drive extracts at about 1/3 of the speed of my older drive. My calculations show it extracting at about 8x. I called their tech support and they...

When I copy a track from a cd to my hard drive, it gets converted to a .wav file, and then when I burn it to a cd it is converted back to a .cda. Is the newly burned track on the cd 100% exactly the same quality as the original, or is there some degradation? What about when I use on-the-fly cd...

I am looking for a headphone to use for a long airline trip. I am not too concerned about audio quality, blocking out noise is the prime consideration. I will only use these maybe once or twice a year, so I want to keep the price down, maybe $25. I use my good ones when I want sound quality, for...