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In other words manufacturers of replicated CD's do not buy blanks form Japan or anywhere else the CD is "made" in their process.

Can't agree, OS. I can make CDs that are superior to factory ones. They may not be as robust physically because of their nature but no difference in sound quality.

Peter

Not saying your skills don't exceed the engineers at the record companies, what I'm saying is how much more excellent would your work sound if the playing field was level?

Have a blessed day in Christ,
Mike W.

Peter,
To explain my point better, Your work played back at 4X oversampling would absolutely be superior to your work played back at 2X oversampling.

Have a blessed evening in Christ,
Mike W.

...but you're saying "played back". Oversampling is a function of the CD player, not the burning or stamping processes.

Peter

Exactly! A consumer CD player plays YOUR CD back at 2X oversampling and plays THEIR (replicated) CD back at 4X oversampling. The record companies are urinating down our backs and telling us it's raining. Why would they put forth the effort required to get all CD player manufacturers to do this (a really BIG deal) if it really didn't improve sound quality or wasn't important to them?

Have a blessed day in Christ,
Mike W.

Hey Mike, where are you getting this information? I am not doubting or asking in a way to sound aurgumentative, I am just curious.

If you can find the time, OS, please post a link that verifies or at the very least, is your source of information. I'm dubious.

Peter

Hi all,
I acquired this knowledge over quite a period of time and am now having trouble finding the article about the players using lower oversampling rates for "burned CD's", but I know I didn't make it up. Oversampling is now up to 8X in some CD players so I bet the quality of playback gap is even wider. I will have to search my old computers as maybe I saved the webpage. I did, however find an article about oversampling which is quite good. The link is http://soundstage.com/gettingtechnical/ ... 200311.htm I hope this will shed some light on why I think this is so important.

Have a blessed day in Christ,
Mike W.

This stuff is all common knowledge although poorly articulated by the author. I fail to see, however, how it addresses your first post regarding the difference between burnt CDs and factory CDs.

Peter