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From: "Walkman" <walkman@sutemos.net>
Reply-To: walkman@sutemos.net
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:52:28 +0200 (EET)
quoted 3 lines I guess there is a slight difference.
>I guess there is a slight difference.
>Take a look here:
>http://www.mrichter.com/cdr/primer/losses.htm
yes, i had heard something like that. it was noticeable when i was listening to a mastered
CDR of our album, and then the pressed CDs arrived and in the same player/headphones it
sounded louder and better. not by a lot, but it was noticeable.
this seems like an issue partially with the D/A converters or something. in other words, as
that site says, and the last person who posted stated, the quality of the digital audio on the
disc itself is identical. what's different is the signal as it translates to analog while listening.
everything would be fine if we didn't have to use our damn ears!
i think you can keep the sound quality as close as possible by burning audio discs at 2x
(which is what mastering engineers burn our premaaster discs at). it's my understanding this
lowers the error correction necessary when discs are burned at faster rates and translates to
the ear as better sound.
so yeah, it's nice to download your supposedly great-sounding mp3s and throw them on a
CDR (with or without conversion to AIFF/WAV), but it still doesn't sound quite as full as a
manufactured CD. you could say phillips has a vested interest in saying this, but i hear a
difference.
d.
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