Ultimate Demo Disc for Audio Geeks


In a recent demo of Wilson speakers, my local high end dealer jumped around from disc to disc taken from his giant case, as we tried to sample a variety of music.

Most of his demo discs appeared to be "ripped" and not original versions of the CDs being used.

Given that some of you claim that "ripped" (?) CD's can somehow sound better than the original, I think I have missed the obvious concept of creating a demo disc of sample tracks, test tones, steam trains, ping pong balls jazz, classical, pop, rock, Dusty Springfield, percussion etc. into to one easy to use CD.

Has anyone tried this? Any other thoughts? What tracks would you consolidate on your ultimate demo disc?

I am thinking about an Alesis Masterlink for a second system and this has been one of the ideas which sprang to mind.

Thank you,
cwlondon

Showing 1 response by rixthetrick

There was a company called audioXsell that sold black CDR media, and another from Germany with black CDR, probably close to a decade ago. There were starkly audible differences to be heard during playback.

The disks I have were burnt on a Yamaha F1 burner ( from memory I think it may have seen SCSI) and yeah it was better sounding. If you're going to burn music to CD, you might want to look into the write and playback quality of the media itself.

However all my music are ripped by EAC to an SSD drive these days, no moving parts, no spinners of any kind.