I don't use CDP at all.That's obvious
When did you digitize your CDs and LPs? I still haven’t...
I’m a 46 year old guy who came up on LPs and cassettes, got into CDs and then stumbled into the world of online music where I’m still trying to figure out what to do.
20 years or so ago when people started getting excited about digitizing their CD collections, I never bothered. I have maybe 900-1000 CDs and the idea of having to “rip” them never appealed to me. Heck, I never even liked the word “rip” and the action seemed time consuming and boring as heck to me. Same for LPs.
These days, I still have all my obsolete media but I’m a Tidal HiFi subscriber and have come to love streaming. Still, there’s a lot I have on CD and LP that Tidal doesn’t have and I’m wondering if it’s time to step into the present and get something like an Innuos Zen Mk III so I can stream, rip, and store at least all of my CDs.
Is it time to step into the present, or will I be fine rocking my Nakamichi CDP-2A until it dies and then just buying another CD player or transport? That certainly seems less expensive these days than a fancy streamer/server/“ripper”.
20 years or so ago when people started getting excited about digitizing their CD collections, I never bothered. I have maybe 900-1000 CDs and the idea of having to “rip” them never appealed to me. Heck, I never even liked the word “rip” and the action seemed time consuming and boring as heck to me. Same for LPs.
These days, I still have all my obsolete media but I’m a Tidal HiFi subscriber and have come to love streaming. Still, there’s a lot I have on CD and LP that Tidal doesn’t have and I’m wondering if it’s time to step into the present and get something like an Innuos Zen Mk III so I can stream, rip, and store at least all of my CDs.
Is it time to step into the present, or will I be fine rocking my Nakamichi CDP-2A until it dies and then just buying another CD player or transport? That certainly seems less expensive these days than a fancy streamer/server/“ripper”.
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You bought up CDR’s, I still call it copy/burn, and do it at 10-20x my originals on my desk top for the car cd player. And any new cd I buy are "used" and are nearly always the earlier non compressed versions, like this new/used 1995 Golden Earring I just got, it kills my re-release 2001 compressed version. Scroll to the bottom. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Golden+Earring&album=Moontan Or this 80’s 90’s Moody Blues one I got last week, slays the 2000’s version I bought before. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Moody+Blues&album=Days+Of+Future+Passed Look how compressed the HD tracks ones are!!! Cheers George |
Either way - by using good ripping program created CD-R will always sound better than badly scratched CD Sorry no they don’t Also here, are the micron photos of the original stamped retail CD left, middle is a burnt gold CDR copy, and right is the burnt aluminium CDR copy. As you can see there will be far more error correction going on for the laser to read middle and right. https://ibb.co/qjYQFyc Even to a HD there are added jitter and errors. Pierre Varney proved this, get it and have a listen, as it not even burnt, but hd copied, then one single stamp CD. Cheers George |
Ripping program can effectively renew old scratched CD making it sound better - like new. Even CD-R made from such rip will likely sound better than original CD.Not correct sorry, I can hear the difference between the original and the burnt copy I make for the car. Also if you search there is a lab test disc you can buy I think it was the Pierre Varney double disc test disc suit, that has all the usual cd bench test tracks, but it also has a piece of music on it and then the same piece but 10 x generation copy. And you can clearly hear the degradation on the 10th copy. Cheers George |