Hello I have a question, I have the CD burner Yamaha 24/10/40 and I want to know what is the function Audio Master Q.R. and how to use it. Thanks everybody
I just bought one of those and I must say, I am really impressed. Use the Nero burner software that came with it. First goto to cd wizard and us creat audio cd. then after that it will take you to a menu to make a music list. make the music list and save it. than hit the burn button and it will take you to a different menu. click on the music list icon that was saved on the left and then hit the burn folder. where it says writing method scroll down and select that option. I just did it last night, and although it took awhile to burn...the results were worth it. My burnt cd sounded awsome....the sound qaulity was the best I ever heard for a burnt cd.
The Audio Master aims at improving the shape and positioning of the pits burned on the CD. I beleive that it operates at 8x speed. I haven't see any reliable (blind) testing about any quality difference and I strongly doubt that there is a significant difference. Rastad's results are more likely related to psychology than technology (no offence).
lol...it may be psychological than technical, but I'll tell you what... everyone kept going on and on about how great Plextor was(and I believe along time ago they probably were) so I went out and spent something like 300.00 dollars on one. Not only did it read my scratched up disks poorly, but when I burnt a disc, the sound qauility was significantly down graded. I thought to myself, 'Well, maybe it's just me. I don't see how a cd burner this price with a reputable brand name could burn discs that sound this bad.' So I had my friend come over, took the burnt copy of a disc along with the original disc and compared them over and over in his truck on his Eclipse. Even he, who doesn't care that much at all about audio quality -just as long as it plays and sounds decent, could tell a difference in the sound. And I can tell you, the discs that I have burnt of off my Yamaha DO sound alot better. The whole Plextor experience was fusterating. And I also found it fusterating that I valued and went by the opinions of you and a few other people respected in this area. You seem to claim Plextor with uncoditional loyalty. It's very misleading to people who are looking to purchase a cd burner, because your going by brand name and reputation rather than the actual product itself. Don't forget, companies do change and so do the quality of thier products. After a year and a half since I got that Plextor, they still haven't gotten it right. On the last Plextor review on www.cdrlabs.com the PlexWriter PX-W4824TA 48/24/48 CD-RW got a rather disappointing review and a low remark for one of the most important things(for me anyways) about a cd burners - DAE. "Had a hard time extracting audio from scratched and dirty CD's" -http://www.cdrlabs.com/reviews/index.php?reviewid=148&page=Conclusion no offense, though
I am not dissing the F1 - it is a very good drive. If I would be off to buy a CD-RW today, the F1 would be one of the options. But when you say that the sound quality was significantly degraded and claim your old drive on that, then there is something really screwy. If it sound that much worse then: 1) The bits on the CD have changed 2) The used player is not CD-R comaptible Due to these facts in normal conditions Audio Master (or VariRec or...) can not and will not produce any significant improvements. These technologies aim to reduce jitter, which is a really questionable issue overall (what are its effects, can it be heard, is it a concern, etc). Audio Master may and can however improve performance in non-CD-R compatible, or poorly manufactured players as it is supposed to improve the shape & positioning of the pits on the CD.
Without blind ABX tests, it remains an open question. Cons : technically, the sound can't depend on the burning quality, as 1-The CDRs supposed to have a bad sound are always checked to be error free. 2-The jitter on the CD can't affect the jitter in the DAC No blind ABX test is known. Pros : a lot of user and professional reports, often hearing a bad sound while they expected a good one (that would rule out the psychological effect), investments from CD manufactutrers in jitter free CD Recorders for CD manufacturing, hypothesis about the clock stability of the DAC when a bad CD is read. However, the cons are qualitative arguments, not quantitative, and the pros are weak (investments can benefit the compatibility and longevity of pressed CDs rather than sound). None of them are convincing. Here's how it should be tested : Find someone willing to run the test, who claims to hear easily the difference. The test must be run on the hifi that shows the difference. In the ABX system, the test is divided into sessions. A and B will be the compared items (original and copy). They are known to everyone. In each session, the source X is randomly chosen between A and B. The listener must not know which one it is. He can listen A, B, and X at will. Then when he is sure, he can give his answer and say if X is A or X is B. The answer is noted, and the next session begins : a new X is chosen randomly, and he must recognize it again. 8 sessions are a minimum, otherwise, the right answers can be found by chance. 16 is a good number. Even 15/16 is a good score. To test CDRs, the person must be blindfolded (let the ears free !). Someone else will toss a coin to choose between the original and the copy. It is essential that both CD are outside the CD player when the listening is switched between A, B, or X, otherwise, the person will know which is which, listening if the tray opens when switching from A to X, or B to X. Therefore, when any source is asked, open the tray, take the CD, even if it is the one to play next, put it in its case. Then take it again and insert it in the player to play it. The ABX test is difficult, it is important, in order to recognize X properly, to make some pauses between the sessions if the test is too long, and for the listener only to give an answer when he is absolutely sure of it. When he's not sure, let's make a pause and go on later. Until no such test is run, I'm not convinced by any side.
