Chad wrote: >Anyone know if using a standalone dual well burner will create >degradation in music quality? Does it do the same as EAC would? Please >help.
Depends on which kind of standalone. A "consumer" standalone which requires the special "audio/music" blanks, such as the ubiquitous Philips, will often degrade the quality because they do lousy, sloppy extractions on the fly, giving a product equivalent to copying audio disc>disc on the fly: sometimes no errors but frequently with errors. Some folks also have a very hard time extracting from discs off those machines for some reason. Avoid shows with a 'consumer' standalone in their lineage wherever possible. The "pro" grade standalones (which by legal & technical definition don't require those special costly blanks) reportedly do a very good job, and I recall one taper with an HHB pro deck who posted that he did a test by copying shows with his deck and with his EAC setup on his pc and matching md5s and they kept coming out the same. A LOT of tapers have 'pro' standalones with optical inputs that they have used to transfer their DATs to CDR. There are THOUSANDS of hours of great stuff out there which was originally seeded this way and still do not exist anywhere in virgin DAT>WAV>SHN. There is no real reason for avoiding shows which have been seeded, or copied, thru a 'pro' standalone (EXCEPT that if there is already a shn floating around etree which doesn't have that lineage portions, of the "etree shn is the only true God" crowd will flame your tush off for spreading another seed, but that's another thread) ;-} If you're thinking of buying a standalone, don't. No way to import your shn data into them, even the 'pro' decks, I'm pretty sure. wilbur _______________________________________________ etree.org etree mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://mail.etree.org/mailman/listinfo/etree Need help? Ask <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
