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I doubt your computer's CD player has a DAC on it. The sound should be processed from your sound card/audio chipset, just coming from your CD player rather than hard drive.
Explain to me how you can improve the audio quality of a CD-R.
Here's what the CD looks like: --_--_-__--__--__---_
Make that better. Keep in mind that the laser can already distinguish between the pits and landings perfectly find, if it misses some you'll hear it as a skip.
No, I understood what you meant, which is why I mentioned a faulty decoder as a possibility.
Theoritically you're right about the audio quality CD-R is like 01001111001011, but it really difference ALOT with different quality of CD-R brunt. before you brunt the CD-R, use Nero DiseSpeed under Diseinfo to verify the manufacture from Verbatim, mitsubishi, sony rather then CMC , Ritek and etc (FYI, buying an verbatim dosen't mean you get verbatim, you might get CMC and the quality is bad.... ) , from my experience, those greenish reflection CD-R is bad.. the bluyish CD-R provide better result. So far my best result is Mistubishi Record Design CD-R Phono - Rex CD-R. Try both CD-Rs in home theather system, Hi - fi system or car audio, and sure you'll notice the difference with another cheap CMC or Ritek CD-R. By the way the better your sound system, the more obvious the difference you able to notice.
From what you're telling... you're telling the recording quality on Japan made expensive CD-R is the same with cheap china made CD-R? sure there's difference... you try to brunt two CD-Rs, like I mentioned above, one with good quality CD-R and the other one with bad quality. Test those CD-Rs brunt quality using Nero DiseSpeed for error C1 and C2, you'll see the bad quality CD-R results significantly with very obvious higher errors, peak or average errors. Bare in mind that although with alot of errors, the bad quality CD-R still playing smoothly in CD player or audio system.
In order to hear it as a "SKIP" in CD, you need alots of errors in a string, not a few of pits and landing. I have a very good quality original CD album, you can see very abvious cracked line even see things through the CD, however, it still play perfectly in my CD player. No skipping at all.
Back to your question about how to improve CD-R quality, I am not a CD-R manufacturer engineer, i won't know how to improve the quality. However, I do know that business man will cut down their cost as much as possible and produce a CD-R just enough for you to burn and read, this is china made CD-R. However there's still business man who wants provide premium quality product, trying to make every CD-R provide the quality of burning as closer to error free as possible, that's japan made CD-R