My cd recorder(Philips) is only a single tray so I don't have the option of high speed copy. I would think that as long as the discs are capable of being written at 4x it shouldn't affect sound quality at all, at least that is how it works on my computer burner. I haven't done any analog transfers to cd but I have with DAT many times and once you light up the OL or LIMIT light the distortion goes sky high in a hurry. You run out of bits to represent the level and then your nice sinewaves turn into ugly square-waves. It's best to leave yourself at least 3 or4 db just to be on the safe side. You don't want to go to low either or you'll end up with lower resolution because you're not using the full capability of the 16 bits.
Advice on recording audio CD-R's
I recently bought a Sony RCD-W1 audio CD recorder, and have a couple of questions for those who have experience recording audio CD's. For the purpose of this post, I assume that the features on my unit are similar to other brands.
1. The RCD-W1 allows you to record from CD to CD-R/CD-RW at either "normal"/realtime speed, or 4X "speed synchro". Analog high-speed dubbing reduces the audio quality of the dubbed version. Based on your experience, have any of you been able to detect audible differences between the "normal" vs. high-speed versions of CD-R copies?
2. I plan to make CD-R copies of many of my old LP's. According to the instruction manual with the unit, the level of the analog input must be set to remain below the "distortion" point, just like analog tape recordings. Based on your experiences making copies from analog to CD-R, is it better to keep the recording level well below the overload point, or are CD-R's reasonably forgiving when the "red light" blinks?
Any advice on these questions, plus any other advice you may have, will be sincerely appreciated.
1. The RCD-W1 allows you to record from CD to CD-R/CD-RW at either "normal"/realtime speed, or 4X "speed synchro". Analog high-speed dubbing reduces the audio quality of the dubbed version. Based on your experience, have any of you been able to detect audible differences between the "normal" vs. high-speed versions of CD-R copies?
2. I plan to make CD-R copies of many of my old LP's. According to the instruction manual with the unit, the level of the analog input must be set to remain below the "distortion" point, just like analog tape recordings. Based on your experiences making copies from analog to CD-R, is it better to keep the recording level well below the overload point, or are CD-R's reasonably forgiving when the "red light" blinks?
Any advice on these questions, plus any other advice you may have, will be sincerely appreciated.