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In austin.general Albert Nurick <albert@nurick.com> wrote:
> "Craig Becker" <jlpicard@serv2.jump.net> wrote in message
>> Okay, while we're on the topic of CDs and ripping and all . . . how
>> does MP3 (a lossy format) compare with simply playing the CD into a
>> A/D converter and effectively going Digital -> Analog -> Digital? As
>> far as I know, there's *no* copy protection mechanism that'll prevent
>> this.
>>
>> Has anyone done this? How does the final quality compare to straight
>> ripping?
>
> It'll suffer; how much depends on how good your analog bits are.

Hey Albert! Long time! Anyhow, to the matter at hand: you're saying 
that the quality will suffer compared to a straight "ripping" process?
I'm going to have to try this.  Maybe it's just me, but I can seriously
tell the difference between MP3 and CD quality -- not so bad on a set
of 'computer quality' speakers, but on a nice system, it's pretty 
obvious. 

I also recently burned a test audio CD from a set of MP3 files, and 
there's a serious degradation of quality there -- the stock audio 
system in my car (which is pretty good, I must say) *really* makes it
obvious. 

Craig

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