Mutsui now has a Gold DVD, the first on the market, as far as I know. I burn only at 1x sometimes 2x for dvd's The dupes turn out Identical and flawless!! I use any decent media like TDK or Verbatim for everyday use, and MItsui Gold cd-r's for the finest high quality music. I said not my dupes!! I challenged him to a blind test, he declined because there is no way he could pick the original except by sheer luck! I use an Apple G4 computer with an on board drive, and a LaCie external drive for DVD s. I walked into a high end shop one day and the manager tried to lay that line on me. My dupes are as good or better than the originals. (not unlikely given the myriad of possible hardware/software combinations)Ībsolutely identical!!!! Most comlpaints about dupes are due to using crap equipment, crap media and burning at too fast a speed. Rather than blame all CD copying as a process fraut with some errors (patently untrue) it would be only fair to conclude that the author (and others) have encountered hardware/software bugs or compatibility problems somewhere in the reproduction chain. However, these findings do not negate that a correctly executed digital copy of data should be identical to the orginal just means that some sets of hardware/software do not work properly together as they should. Given the unreliability of windows software and hardware compatibility, the complexity in some "burn" programs and the general infinity of permuations of hardware/ seems possible that Genesis ran foul of some technical compatibility problems somewhere. Also, as the author states no compression or software errors/bugs can occur in the copy process.in which case the copy is no longer a true copy. Some early CD players had trouble with some types of "burned" discs and some lasers had trouble with some types of dyed discs- so this is entirely possible. As the author states.according to the "data" it is identical, however, it sounds different => this can only be due to a problem reading certain types of "burned" disks on the transport being used. Clearly the author has encountered some kind of transport/burning problem. I suppose the best thing to do is to give it a try and see if it works for you. So more than bits comes into the equation. Well, we know that's not true, because the timing of the bits as measured by jitter can cause CD players to sound different. With this logic, all CD players should sound the same, and all digital cables since it's just bits that are being moved around. This argument should apply to all things digital. To say that there is no difference merely because a bit for bit copy is being made is difficult to sustain. Certainly there are many people who report that copies sound better, although just as many report no difference. I think that it had something to do with the transition from pit to plateau on the data layer of the original being better defined on the copy. I don't fully remember what the theory was, but it sounded reasonable. I think that it might have been in Stereophile. A number of years ago I remember reading an article as to why copies can sound better than the original.
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