Mixdown to standalone CD vs cpu's CD ?

[jorelto]

Is there any difference in mixing down to an external standalone CD fed directly thru the analog ins and outs or burning to the cpu's CD directly from hardrive ??

will sound quality be the same on both at 16bit 44 ?

 

[gordone]

The standalone route will have to go through the PCs AD converters, and then into the standalone's AD converters, so the signal will be somewhat degraded. If you have the tracks on your PC already, you might as well use the PC's burner. Why bother with a standalone?

 

[jorelto]

yes, I didn't think of that :/

guess I'm trying to find a reason for holding on to my standalone cd recorder.

when I transfer recorded music from sources other than pc to it, the cds seem to have a richer tonality to them than when I route that same signal to my pc and burn from there.

I was thinking along the lines of doing the same for music that I play into my sequencing software. It sounds better when I listen to it from within the program rather than when it's on a pc burned cd.

 

[LfO]

yes, I didn't think of that :/

guess I'm trying to find a reason for holding on to my standalone cd recorder.

when I transfer recorded music from sources other than pc to it, the cds seem to have a richer tonality to them than when I route that same signal to my pc and burn from there.

I was thinking along the lines of doing the same for music that I play into my sequencing software. It sounds better when I listen to it from within the program rather than when it's on a pc burned cd.

Are you working in 24 bits on the pc? The CD only has 16, and I wondered why sound quality was worse on the CD for a while. Eventually, it occurred to me I should stop converting to MP3 before burning, too

 

[jorelto]

even at 24 bit with either Cubase SL or Soundforge, the file, for some reason sounds better. From the moment it is saved even as 24bit it loses quality. I don't save to mp3.

 

[notbradsohner]

ill buy that cd burner off you