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Article #1154Re: Audio quality of CDR, any theory ????
From: Michael Thomas
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:00
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Listen to it. Listen to it. Warm up the iron. Perception is often stronger and more meaningful then data based on other sources. Mike Brendan Heading wrote: > In article <3676A41B.BC468FF2@cabletron.com>, Michael Thomas > <mithomas@cabletron.com> writes > >I wholly agree here. you need to hear the difference. > >I have done listening tests with another audio friend who has a burner. We have > >two different burners and completely different audio > >setups, > >We agreed that there is noticable difference between source and original. There > >seems to be a high end rolloff. > > If there was any difference between two digital copies (with no analogue > stage) then high end rolloff is impossible. Random bit errors (which is > what we are dealing with) could not possibly produce this result. > > Why not sample the copy into a computer and use Cooledit (freeware) to > perform a harmonic analysis ? > > >I think that high end rolloff may give some the illusion that it now becomes > >darker and more wholesome sounding (especially on a crappy > >cd), but in my mind it trashes a good recording. The image is all wrong. even a > >lower output of some intrumentations. > > Unless there is an analogue stage, it isn't possible for these kinds of > artifacts to be introduced by copying a CD to another CD. > > -- > Brendan Heading > http://www.heading.demon.co.uk (updated every Thursday) > ICQ : 24010538 > (please remove obvious spamguard to reply by email) > > "The appeal to patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109f11,48d41a4dac9741b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid109f11,public X-Google-Thread: f6728,48d41a4dac9741b4 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6728,public X-Google-Thread: fb1f8,48d41a4dac9741b4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1f8,public X-Google-Thread: 10d85e,48d41a4dac9741b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d85e,public X-Google-Thread: 10ff83,48d41a4dac9741b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ff83,public X-Google-Thread: 105a81,48d41a4dac9741b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid105a81,public From: Michael Thomas <mithomas@cabletron.com> Subject: Re: Audio quality of CDR, any theory ???? Date: 1998/12/15 Message-ID: <3676EB3F.A42F476D@cabletron.com> X-Deja-AN: 422665842 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <753ar1$p8u$1@justice.csc.cuhk.edu.hk> <01be27ef$aff52c20$LocalHost@default> <3676A41B.BC468FF2@cabletron.com> <HUREXNAPXrd2EwZi@heading.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: postmaster@ctron.com X-Trace: roch-news.ctron.com 913759512 6643 134.141.35.127 (15 Dec 1998 22:05:12 GMT) Organization: Cabletron Systems Inc Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Dec 1998 22:05:12 GMT Newsgroups: rec.audio.tech,rec.audio.opinion,rec.audio.misc,hk.rec.audio-visual,uk.rec.audio,tw.bbs.rec.audiophile