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The linked site explains why making copies of purchased CDs onto CD-R increases the sound quality for most albums, and how to do it correctly.
Very interesting, I am prepared to try it on a few albums...
Anyone else have tried this / use this advice / use EAC software?
Christophe
from http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/eac/eac.html
For music lovers like us, it is sufficient to have access to a program that can extract data from CDs in such a way as to 'overlook' all manner of distortions caused by either flaws during the CD manufacturing process or from prior use like scratches and to create perfect copies to our computer's hard drive
Do not expect all CD copies to be better than the original. Only those originals that are mechanically challenged in one way or another are improved. Sublime CDs are just copied in all their original glory and unchanged as they are. However, in most cases, a copied CD sounds better than the original even if it is only true for certain tracks. A freshly burned CD-R has often far better articulated pits than a pressed one. Just like with vinyl pressings, the stampers wear out and the record company is not always willing or finacially able to replace them every x-number of CDs. Worse, many times CDs are re-issued using old worn stampers. Freshly cut CDs nearly always contain less jitter than mass-duplicated commercial versions
Very interesting, I am prepared to try it on a few albums...
Anyone else have tried this / use this advice / use EAC software?
Christophe
from http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/eac/eac.html
For music lovers like us, it is sufficient to have access to a program that can extract data from CDs in such a way as to 'overlook' all manner of distortions caused by either flaws during the CD manufacturing process or from prior use like scratches and to create perfect copies to our computer's hard drive
Do not expect all CD copies to be better than the original. Only those originals that are mechanically challenged in one way or another are improved. Sublime CDs are just copied in all their original glory and unchanged as they are. However, in most cases, a copied CD sounds better than the original even if it is only true for certain tracks. A freshly burned CD-R has often far better articulated pits than a pressed one. Just like with vinyl pressings, the stampers wear out and the record company is not always willing or finacially able to replace them every x-number of CDs. Worse, many times CDs are re-issued using old worn stampers. Freshly cut CDs nearly always contain less jitter than mass-duplicated commercial versions
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