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#9118 - 09/14/06 10:45 PM burned cd sound quality compare with the orignal cd?
gooomz Offline
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do burned or ripped cds from a computer sound as good as new cds bought from a store? the reason i ask because i have some burned cds in my collection and i'm not sure if their sound quality would be the same as the orignal cds. what do you guys think?

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#9119 - 09/14/06 10:55 PM Re: burned cd sound quality compare with the orignal cd?
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It depends upon the format that the CDs were ripped to. IMO if a CD is ripped to mp3 then burned back to audio CD there will be a noticable reduction in sound quality from the original cd. If you use one of the lossless compression formats (e.g. FLAC) to burn a cd it will be identical to the original and so there is no reduction in the quality of the audio.
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#9120 - 09/14/06 11:59 PM Re: burned cd sound quality compare with the orignal cd?
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If they are simply burned copies of commercial discs (meaning the data's never been through conversions such as AvFan mentions), then there shouldn't be a difference. I have read some comments that have suggested that multiple repeated copies (a copy of a copy of a copy of...) could introduce errors in the data that add up to some sonic differences, but I'd expect that to take a significant number of generations to yield an actual impact in sound quality.
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