the moment an Audiophile starts to compare the clarity between digital files, they start to stop enjoying the MUSIC and start worrying..

http://www.verbatim.com/prod/optical-media/cd/compact-disc-recordable/digitalvinyl-cd-r-sku-96858/     How do these babies perform in terms of quality, durability, clarity etc... any of you have tried these? thanks

 anything wrong in downloading music from Russian sites? For eg:   www.gomusic.ru   the albums cost way cheap, still need to pay.   just wondering whther it is legal??  

When  I rip a Studio recorded CD to a CD-R using Apple Loss less encoder,   1. Is the sound quality EXACTLY the same as the original CD? (I cant tell the difference by ear, though) 2. How long these CDs last with the same quality? would the sound quality diminishes as time goes by  or ...

from where can I download the Guitar Hero version?

Quote: exactly! Since lossless files take too much space , i finally transfer  all albums to a DVD and store it in a safe place and make CDs out of it whenever i want. My suggestion is never store any music files in computer, never know when it crashes !

so here is my wild thought to the Black Sabbath listeners.   in 1982, If Sabbath had chosen the same producer and the same console settigs that they had in 1969, Born Again would have come out as crispier as their debut.

very good explanation, thanks, but if the same band with the same members go back to the studio and chooses a different producer, why cant they demand the same quality album recording ?   sorry for being naive about this, but just being curious.

Question to the Audiophile record producers of this forum:   If the production of an album comes out crispy and great, why cant the record company keep a record of all the console settings, Drum tunings etc...so that they can still use the same setting or change a bit depends on the addition...

Deep Purple- In Rock   Sounds like it was recorded mono, not much dynamics compared to the albums by other artists released in the same year.   Haunted- by Deep Purple (Bananas album)   - The drum sound is getting faded and drowned towards the middle of the song!.

The lead guitar solo part of "Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen " seems so chalked with all the instruments and operatic vocals, sounds kind of awfull to me, but Roy Thomas Baker intentionally made it like that I guess.

True, I agree. Black Sabbath- Born Again Production is awfull, sounds like Brickwalling started in early eighties!!.   UFO-1 seems much better than Making Contact in my opinion, but still sound bad though, I agree. Quote:

Sting in the Tail- Scorpions   it is too obvious that this CD is a victim of the so called Loudness war, another name for Loudness war is " Metallica- Death Magnetic "     Emotional Rescue- The Rolling Stones-- seems dull compared to  the earlier Some Girls which is kind of trebly...

UFO- makin contact   Their debut and most of their 70's albums were produced fine but this!

The Who- By Numbers great album but muddy tho, the drum sound gets drowned at many times. Glyn Johns?

All Ted Templeman produced Van Halen albums sound great, well mixed.   please do not try any Remastered series CDs cause of the obvious reason of loudness and compression.   CDs released till late 90's are safe in my humble opinion.

Quote: Bassy? I always felt the drum sound is too thin...may be thats the way Fagen and Becker wanted it to sound.

Black Sabbath- Never Say Die   I always wonder how come this album's production (1978) is so bad and their debut album (1969) is crisp   Rainbow- Rising   It seems Martin Birch didnt do a good job like he did in Machine Head years before, in this album, the drum sound has too much...

never buy remastered versions in CD, all compressed!! but louder as you know. keep those late eighties- early nineties "the Nice Price sticker CDs", they are the best to my ear. and I love those songs dubbed from LPs to  Chromium cassette tapes as well.   The CDs released from late...