CDR Sound quality problems

[Alec]

Okay, here is a strange problem for you audio experts. Someone burned some cds for me (all from OOP albums that have never been on CD), When I play them on my computer, car player, or cheap boom box, there is bad distortion. However, on my home system there is no distortion. Why? How can I fix this problem?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[Dan Gould]

I have no idea why there'd be distortion, but, assuming you own a burner, I'd make a burn of the burn and see if that fixes it.

Also, if you are burning on the PC, whatever program you use should have the capability of extracting the CD-format tracks into wav files. Then an audio program would let you listen to them in that format, see if there's still distortion. Then you can reburn.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I had this problem while using EZ CD Creator on a CD a while back. To this day, I don't understand how it happened. I was led to believe that EZ CD Creator just copied 1's & 0's. Obviously, it is doing more than that. I have a theory as to why this happened to me that one time: it was the first and only time I duped a CD encoded with HDCD. If this is the case with the CDs you had duped, that may be it. In fact, I am hoping that you say they were HDCD encoded CDs. That would be proof of my theory.

BTW, the only way I was able to copy that CD was by using Exact Audio Copy to extract the audio as well as to burn it. I tried using EAC to just extract the files and EZ CD Creator to burn thme but I still got distortion. I guess that means the distortion is during the write.

Later,

Kevin

[Bluerein]

Anyone tried the MFSL gold cd-r's already? They look mighty good and pricey as well.

Cheers,

Reinier

[jazzbo]

I have a few (non HDCD) cds that read with digital distortion on some of my machines and not on others.

Very strange. Near the end of the cdr, in the final ten minutes or so a whirling sort of distortion.

On other machines not one audible bit of distortion.

I'm learning to accept little audio mysteries in the digital realm.

[Shrdlu]

Easy CD creator was our first burn software, and was a pain a lot of the time. Nero is great, and that's all we use anymore.