lexusnexus

I know this is the elite SC430 board but I figure there's a few Hi-Fi savvy persons here, so here's a post I made from the IS 300 board
I notice my CD player skips sometimes with burned CD's, do you suppose this is an attribute of it being ripped and then burned, potentialy with flawed source ? Or what ? I know sound quality is better at higher sampled rates, but regular CD's are I think 160 kPs, right ? So how is it possible to get any better from a CD than that ? Me...sooo confused

bravo261

iTrader: (1)

cd's are mostly measured in sound terms, which is 44100khz. kbps is purely a computer unit of measurement. apples and oranges. so the short of it is no, cd's are not 160kbps. as you know, the regular mp3 is 128kbps, which simply says how much info per second is stored as a file. so the higher the number, the more info there is per second to reproduce that true original sound.

this does also imply that the higher you go, the better you get, but not by much. 128 -> 192 is a big difference, but 192 -> 320 is not all that noticeable.

your skipping problem might be from your burner. ripping is the only other place to make an error, but burning is an easier mistake to make. might need to slow your burner down if you're converting mp3's directly to a cd format on the fly. converting too fast without Burn-Proof will cause skips, which always happened with my first burner, a beautiful $300 2x Ricoh