Angel weighs in on recording LP's to CDRs

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Hey, my name in lights at last! You like me, you really like me!

I guess I better actually write something then.

I've found that when I make a CDR from a really good LP using a really good tube phono preamp, with a really accurate RIAA setting, to a DAT machine or Sony 1630 first via a good A/D converter, the results are amazing. (Nice run-on, sorry).

But, when I compare the finished CDR to my original LP both played back at the same time on a really good resolving system, the LP wins, but by just a little bit. Some of the echo, or ambience seems to fall through the holes on the digital version. Not a lot, mind you, but it does sound a little less "analog" to me. I haven't tried the Alesis 24/96 stand alone Masterlink yet (although some of the boys at the studio swear by it), so that might make it even.

So, those are my thoughts. The CD-R sounds just as good or bad as what I record onto it, but loses just a bit of ambient information.

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And thank you for that most excellent and thoughtful, yet concise, writeup!

 

Ah! The Oscar. Thank you so much members of the SH Forums and Mr. Holy Zoo. I accept on behalf of Audiophiles everywhere.

 

The LP won because there are too many stages between the LP and the CD-R. Cut out the DAT and see what you get.
This brings a question, are you using a standalone CD burner or computer? See, you have to play your DAT back on the DAT machine. A CD-R made on a computer will be played on a CD player. My point is that your test is thrown off a bit by different converters being used for playback of the CD-R. The same DAC is used in the DAT.