Difference between burned Cd's and not burned

[cotjones 10+ year member]

So my subs sound like supermodel *** on original CD's,

but suprize monkeybutsehx on alot of burned CD's or MP3's?

Is there a difference in how the signal is read and distributed to the channels? This is puzzling me.

The tracks that sound bad sound fine on other systems //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

(fyi: I know some downloaded recordings are bad.)

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[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Just depends on the quality of the download really. The best CD's I have are the Focal Demo discs that I downloaded from some torrent site...pure ***.

 

[skylineTT 10+ year member]

as long as they are 320kb/s files, they should be perfect quality. if youre using 128 or 256kb/s songs, it will sound muddier. when you download, make sure its perfect quality.. and dont use limewire.

 

[thericanballer 10+ year member]

So my subs sound like supermodel *** on original CD's, but suprize monkeybutsehx on alot of burned CD's or MP3's?

Is there a difference in how the signal is read and distributed to the channels? This is puzzling me.

The tracks that sound bad sound fine on other systems //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

(fyi: I know some downloaded recordings are bad.)

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[modskwod 10+ year member]

It depends (AFAIK) on whether your files are lossless or not. If they are, then idk what the problem is. If they aren't, that's your problem.

Off topic: RyanM mentioned Focal disc downloads, well here they are.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Compression. Its all in the bitrate of the MP3. 320kbps is as close to lossless as you can get with MP3s. Until they make a HU that can play files ripped with EAC and play FLAC and Apple Lossless you have to use 320kbps MP3 files.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Using EAC with AccurateRip enabled, and encoding in a lossless format will keep the original quality.

Anything less, and you're losing fidelity.

You can't guarantee that you aren't getting transcodes online, but reputable (i.e., invite-only) torrent trackers will provide EAC log files showing the quality of the rip.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Waffles and What.CD FTFW!

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

I need to get back on What.cd, I had my account banned //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[thedust316 10+ year member]

what is what.cd?