Best Clarity CD-R for burning music

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cbdb said:
And the best way to store music now is as a data file (wave, aiff, etc.) on a RAID or hard drive with backup. Its alot cheaper than expensive CD-Rs too. (just make sure your captureing at 44.1khz)

Or put them back as FLAC files on a data CD ………………

Disadvantage is, you can only play them back from a PC. A regular CD player cannot play them.

At this moment I am setting up a music centre around an Asus Eee PC 901 that feeds an E-MU Tracker USB dac. Sound is really good and IMO better than many CD players of comparable price and even higher.

Note that HD’s always fail, usually after 5 – 10 years of service. A good CD-R lasts much longer.
 
Pjotr said:


Or put them back as FLAC files on a data CD ………………

Disadvantage is, you can only play them back from a PC. A regular CD player cannot play them.

At this moment I am setting up a music centre around an Asus Eee PC 901 that feeds an E-MU Tracker USB dac. Sound is really good and IMO better than many CD players of comparable price and even higher.

A bit OT:
I use my diy media server extensively and find it pretty competitive with my homebrew shigaclone. I use flac for all of my music media and have 3 drives in the system. (No raid)
 
Hi Eric,

As long as it process your data it doesn’t matter except for audible noise (fans etc.). And it does process your data as intended, otherwise the thing wouldn’t run at all anyway. Or do you believe I typed something else you are reading now?

What matters is jitter at the conversion clock of de actual DA-converter chip. There you can have a point, PSU noise can influence this for on board PCI audio cards. But with a good semi pro card it is dealt with. Some good reading about it is already posted elsewhere on this board: http://imageevent.com/cics/v03theartofbuildingcomputertrnsp (can’t find the thread back at the moment).
 
Can someone explain this to me?

Here is a test I had tried: I ripped a couple of songs from some of my better recorded music cd's to a program called CDEX, all tracks were ripped to .wav file 16-bit/44.1khz. I wanted to see if there was a difference in sound quality using 2 seperate methods. Using my SB Audigy program and using the Creative audio converter, I decided to convert 3 different songs from 3 seperate cds. Tracks #1,3,&5 were converted,using the set destination format tab, to wave 16 bits per sample and the samplerate @ 44,100hz. Tracks 2,4,&6 were converted with the same technic except the BPS was increased to 24 and the samplerate to 96,000hz. After burn was finished I then compared the tracks and noticed that the 24-bit/96khz tracks(2,4,&6) sounded better.

P.S. The blank disc I used for the test was Verbatim cd-r multi-use/music-data!

Thanks
 
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