tom permutt Wrote: > Besides the good suggestions here, you will want to look at > http://www.delback.co.uk/lp-cdr.htm which gives a pretty complete > overview of your options. > > The one thing that surprises me a little in the discussion is the > concern about recording levels. This is a part of the ritual for those > of us who have been recording since tape days, especially cassette, but > it was because the dynamic range of the cassettes was at best > comparable to that of the records, so you had to be careful to use all > of it. I think it might be vestigial with the much bigger range of CD > recording. I find that if I just use the same level with plenty of > headroom for all discs, the noise from the records still swamps > anything added in the transfer. > > For what it's worth, I use a Sony component CD recorder/player. It has > no hard drive and not much memory, so it records directly onto CDs in > real time. This may have been a cost-effective compromise a very few > years ago, but it's kind of silly now. It's very sensitive to > vibration and even, it seems, to the brand of media; and when it fails, > it does so in a frustrating way: it usually doesn't give any indication > of failure until you finish the track, which for me is a side of an LP.
I don't agree that CD has particularly good dynamic range. S/N ratio and dynamic range are not the same thing. BTW, CD's low useful dynamic range is probably the reason today's CDs are mastered with silly-high levels. (The useful dynaic range is low because harmonic distortion is very high for low level signals.) -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21836 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
