Andrei
Active Member
Here's the story:
I got a good collection of original (pressed CDs). However, I can't buy quite everything I listen to (most of the albums are difficult to get on CD these days), so I also have a collection of burned audio CDs, made from FLAC files.
Recently I got a player with a good transport and I started to notice a somewhat disturbing fact, namely that the burned CDs don't sound quite as good as the original ones.
The burned ones have a somewhat glassy, processed sound and I feel that they lack some of the depth and tridimensionality the original ones have. It's not like a night and day difference, but it's there.
I started to do some research to find out why that is, but came up with nothing reliable.
My burned CDs are made with various burners and I only used flac files from reliable sources.
I only write at low speed. I used various blank CDs, from best quality to average quality, but they all have that same processed nuance.
I said to myself that I never had a really good professional burner and that that might be a reason so I managed to track down and get a Yamaha CRW 3200 with Audio Master Quality Recording.
Now, I must say that things seems to improve a little bit, that is the CDs I burned with the Yamaha sound better and more closely to the original ones than everything I did until now, but still there is a hint of processing.
Any advices?
I got a good collection of original (pressed CDs). However, I can't buy quite everything I listen to (most of the albums are difficult to get on CD these days), so I also have a collection of burned audio CDs, made from FLAC files.
Recently I got a player with a good transport and I started to notice a somewhat disturbing fact, namely that the burned CDs don't sound quite as good as the original ones.
The burned ones have a somewhat glassy, processed sound and I feel that they lack some of the depth and tridimensionality the original ones have. It's not like a night and day difference, but it's there.
I started to do some research to find out why that is, but came up with nothing reliable.
My burned CDs are made with various burners and I only used flac files from reliable sources.
I only write at low speed. I used various blank CDs, from best quality to average quality, but they all have that same processed nuance.
I said to myself that I never had a really good professional burner and that that might be a reason so I managed to track down and get a Yamaha CRW 3200 with Audio Master Quality Recording.
Now, I must say that things seems to improve a little bit, that is the CDs I burned with the Yamaha sound better and more closely to the original ones than everything I did until now, but still there is a hint of processing.
Any advices?
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