do burnt CD copys sound as good as originals?

Grateful, I have never had a copy that would not read, but I entirely agree that experimenting with cdrs and burners can drive you crazy. I would add also cd and cdr cleaners. I have quite experimenting.

I have Marantz Professional Cd Recorder/Player. The cd's I have made sound pretty darn great. As for computer burning, don't do it but have had some made via that way and they sound fine.

As it happens a Marantz Pro (model 510 I believe?) was the dual-well machine I referred to in my post of 1/7. Not that it made 'bad' copies by any means, just not as good (digital or analog) as the HHB unit I ultimately bought at the time (meaning less like the original). Differences do exist though sometimes subtle.

I was just reading info on the Memory Player by Nova Physics over at StereoTimes. It appears to me that this new player extracts (rips) music from the CD in a read-till-right fashion (sounds like EAC software) and stores it in flash memory to play it. What I find interesting is that it plays the music from flash memory rather than from the CD. I wonder if by using the solid state flash memory it may avoid further jitter or read/write error issues that are introduced by CDs or even hard drives. Just a thought...

Sounds somewhat like the approach taken by the newer Meridian players just being discussed on another thread.

I strikes me that we will increasing see boxes that use big storage to store multiple cds or worse for non-immediate replay from the cd transport. The question is going to be which affords the best sound. VRS was the first of these that I saw and I have no idea what has happened to them. They were at the 2005 RMAF with a nice overall system and good sound.

I know to my ear, my newly burned CD-R's sound unbelievably better than the source CD material. An article I have read about BLUR (Burnout Length Under Run) states that it gets a better longer burn when re-recording from CD's. The engineer also stated that the specific burner in your computer was very important to the quality of the final product. Now, my burns from downloaded MP3's sound great also, usually depending on higher bit rates of the MP3.I just wanted to add my two cents to the discussion, and give my humble opinion that I prefer to listen to my burnt CD's before any other source.

in general, i have found that i prefer the original to the copy. the difference , at times has been close.

on several occasions, because the copies have some subtractive coloration, i have preferred them to a poorly recorded original.

however, when dealing with a well recorded CD, the original will probably sound better than a copy.

What I've realy realized that sometimes there are errors in burning that cause skipping.
Don't really know if it's CD quality or software? I used iTunes -- horrible, but Media Monkey is much better.