Digital Audio has a lot of benefits over LP, but, don´t you miss the smooth and deep bass?

I have never noticed it elsewhere, no matter if it is in a Live Concert or in a storm. Maybe it is cause the reverb, or... maybe that LP bass is not "true"?

It wouldn't be the first time I love something that does not exist.

Well, after being tested the 3 CDs I conclude:
- The CD recorded with XXHE playing sounded a bit emphazised in the mid-bass and mid-highs.
- The CD recorded with my Foobar running (consumes 20% CPU) sounded clearly different from the other two, a lot more transparent, but less balanced and with more "holes".

I prefer the CD recorded with no software playing in the background, it is cleaner and more balanced.

PlexTools reported that all the 3 CDs were recorded successfully. After the listening I ripped the 3 CDs to the harddisk again and WaveLab 4 reported that they were exactly equal.

It seems that something related to CPU time consumption has to do with how the CD is recorded. Being the differences so big when using the CPU at 20% I´d say that the key is the power quality to the burner, cause the burner buffer is too long to be influenced by the CPU quantum.

Important:
Some time ago I discovered that every windows CD player (old fashion Win95) sounded different as well. I used the SPDIF-out connector from the drive.

I believe that process is independent of the software used (the CD drive works even when you close the CD player software). So this leaves the power as the only connection between them.

Hi Peter, very nice project.

Well I think begining vs. end differences are far more subtle than the typical jitter, and IIRC I noticed it for the first time this year.

Ahh, I´m stupid... forget the FLAC/WAV question.

I will do the test with XX 0.9r.

Hi, I am Carlos Rodríguez, this is my first post on this forum (sorry for my bad english).

I believe what Andrey says and agree as well with Edward as the theory always differs from practice.

I have been burning a CD without and with Foobar + modified ASIO playing (what XX vesion do you recommend me to do the test? with WAV or FLAC?) and I´d say that even this burning process influences the sound as well... as Peter said, interactions. It makes sound a bit more balanced though (I think more in the begining of the burning) with more of that "microdistortion", but burning a CD every time I want to listen more balanced music is not a solution.

I used for the test PlexTools cause it is wider and far more transparent than Nero 6.6 in my old Plextor 1x burner and in my recent Plextor 4x burner (the one I use now, I prefer 1x but the new burner has less distortion). Though I have not tried Roxio, any recommended version Andrey?

After listening 2 tracks on both CDs, it seems the one with Foobar is more detailed, wider, less plastic and have more soundstage. But it is only a first listening. I will play the full CDs to get more perspective. For sure the begining of the CD has always longer-length jitter than the end, so I will have that into account (I guess we all can notice the difference in jitter between the begining and the end of the CD).

I always get surprised. Recently I upgraded emule (which runs in the background "almost" always) and noticed an improvement in distortion and bandwidth (on the interface as well!, I mean smoother mouse movements and clicks). Jitter is amazing, but well, I dream listening music without audible jitter some day...

PS: I never compared two different pressed CDs, but it would be a beautiful test.