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In Reply to: mabey i'm crazy,but... posted by mark111 on January 02, 2003 at 16:08:52:
Even on my budget stereo, comparing a CD-R (burned at 4x) with the original, something sounds "different" to me. I think the CD-R sounds more sterile, and less dynamic, less bass, and slighty more bright. If you're crazy, then I guess I am too.I also get a lot of errors on the transfer of tracks from the original to the hard drive. Even if CD-ex says there are no errors, after listening to the final burned product, there are still cracks and pops. Any idea why this happens? My CD-RW is a generic one included on a Dell Laptop.
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From the problems you describe, then it's not surprising they sound worse. You should get zero (or very near zero) errors when copying, and there should be no cracks and pops at all.
Most tracks on most discs copy with zero jitter errors. But then there are sometimes when an original disc could have 50% of its songs copy with read errors (the disc is pretty much scratchless and clean). Sometimes I have one song that is causing most of the trouble...I have to recopy it perhaps 5-10 times to get a "perfect" copy, but even that does not assure me of the song being pop and error free.I'd say about 5% of all songs copied, despite being reported as error free, still contain errors.
Maybe it's the generic CD-RW drive in my laptop that is being a bugger, or maybe the extraction software (CDex) I'm using is garbage, though I do enjoy its features, and its cost (free).
Could be the laptop burner though. Errors should be extrememly rare, pops even rarer. :-)
It's still under warranty my laptop. I think I should take it in to get it replace, though I have a feeling Dell is very bitchy when it comes to replacing things that are all but dead.Plus, the last time I phoned Dell Cust. Serv. I was put on hold for nearly 45 minutes, and this was 11:00 PM - hardly a peak hour for calls. Unless its a supply side problem, and they were understaffed at the time.
The few times I've copied audio CDs, I thought the copy sounded **better** than the original.
Possibly somehow related to the green colour of the CD-R which might "magically" absorb the reflecting red beams of the laser? Recall the green/black marker tweak for CD's that came out a few years ago ;)I think I recall reading somewhere that you should copy and burn all of your CD's on black CD-R's to make them sound better. This is of course, BS... but hey, its also just my opinion.
The cracks pops etc are cos the Audio data is not being extracted properly
Download Exact Audio Copy , EAC (www.exactaudiocopy.com or exactaudiocop.de) and use it , if this does NOT help then the source CDr you are ripping from is not properly capable of extracting digital audio and you need one that is , plextor , lg , yamaha etc are good at this.
laptops are not ideal for audio burning , even my 2.4 ghz p4 with a Cdrom/cdr/dvd combo can only burn at 8x and can thus not support the good "full size" recorders which are pretty cheap
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