[Vintage-Audio] Re Vinyl Vs CDS

[Roy Morgan]

At 11:44 AM 3/12/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Roy: I cheated. I used a friend's component CD burner. It can copy CDs and
>make CDs from a line input.


AH.  good. I do not have such a thing.

>The main disadvantage is it uses "music" CD
>blanks. It cannot use the much cheaper "Data" CD blanks.

I find that when copying music cd's on my computer it will use normal 
CD-R's just fine..

>Music vs data CD's
>IS NOT a quality issue. The Music CDs have some info prerecorded on them so
>they can be recognized by comonent CD burners. The extra charged for the
>music CDs goes to the recording industry to compensate them for all those
>illegal copies people make.


Ah.. that makes sense..

>  I do not have any PC recording solution yet.--

Roxio CD software combined with a cd drive apparrently from teh company at 
www.liteonit.com works very fast here to copy any cd.

Roy


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