sound quality loss when copying cd's

[Audiophiliac]

Here's a site that I find is useful when scoping out which burner to buy:

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Revi...x?CategoryId=1


They test each drive pretty extensively, burning various media at different speeds, and report on the quality of each burn.

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

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Originally Posted by Nacher but these theories have quite as much scientific proof behind them as voodoo magic does.

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[Riordan]

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Originally Posted by bigshot The test I saw was by a fella named Glenn Meadows. The page appears to be gone now. He tested a bunch of different drives and found that the correlation between speed and accuracy was pretty much random. See ya Steve

i wouldn't say random, but it's difficult to state a direct corellation. the german computer magazine c't has been testing burners and media for years (cd and dvd), and some findings are consistent:

1. burn quality is highly media dependent (but becoming less so with each generation of hardware)
2. different burners work well with different media.
3. there is a certain "optimal speed" for each burner/media combination, and it's rarely the top speed (not too low either). good burners work well with higher speeds, bad burners don't.
4. almost no media and almost no burner should be operated at their advertised top speed if quality (mostly longevity and readability) is an issue.

 

[Guust-Fi]

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Originally Posted by Riordan 1. burn quality is highly media dependent (but becoming less so with each generation of hardware) 2. different burners work well with different media. 3. there is a certain "optimal speed" for each burner/media combination, and it's rarely the top speed (not too low either). good burners work well with higher speeds, bad burners don't. 4. almost no media and almost no burner should be operated at their advertised top speed if quality (mostly longevity and readability) is an issue.

Agreed. But... I wouldn't even want a 200 cd changer if it were for free.

If you would have to copy all of them... you might as well rip them to flac with EAC, and store them on a hard drive at the same time.
It's so much easier in terms of searching, playlists etc.

There are devices that stream flac to your stereo as well.
http://www.slimdevices.com/
The quality of the dac is an issue though and in this case you might want to hook your pc up to an external dac. Anyway... just my point of view.

Perhaps the cd changer works out better for you

 

[ssportclay]

Use a DVD drive made by Plextor or BenQ and use media from Fujifilm,(made in Japan),Your burns will come out fine at any speed.I use a BenQ 1650V DVD-ROM drive with great success.There are lots of crap drives out there that can't even read a disc at any speed.

 

[KrazyIvan]

Unless you are using EAC, you may in fact be burning lower quality CD's. No one has mentioned that some newer CD's mask the actual CD audio and only show wma or other compressed format audio files for burning/ripping. If you were to burn the CD using those files you would get an audio CD created from compressed audio files.