Question On Mixing Properly (With High Quality)

[stpfan123]

I own a Marantz CDR300 (which you can basically make a CD within minutes.) But I also want to add another feed to it. I want to utilize my new PC's audio card (Audigy 4) but I really don't want to lose any quality.

Basically here's the situation....


I would like to take MP3's from my PC and send an "Audio Out" to the Marantz CDR300. I would like to do this without constantly unplugging the speakers from the audio card's ports. But I guess most Audio cards for PC's only have a "Digital Audio In?" So what's the best way to take MP3 songs/files from my PC and send them to an Auxilary in to My Marantz CDR300.

I want the quality to remain HIGH. Should I purchase Monster Cables to do this?? Any ideas... greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Tim

 

[tourettes5139]

Get a higher quality soundcard that has line outputs. Regardless, mp3 will most likely not be very good quality, definitely less than CD quality.

EDIT: The easiest way would just to burn them with a CD burner in your computer. You skip the two stages of D/A and then A/D conversion, and it is much faster. Again, it will still only be mp3 quality, because that is what you started out with. You can upgrade, but not downgrade.

(Sorry if you already know some of this. I just wanted to cover the bases.)

 

[stpfan123]

Thanks for your input! So if MP3's aren't the best quality in the industry.... what is the best???

Basically I already had this computer built...

Pentium D 840 (3.2GHz)
2GB of Memory
Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Sound Card.

I guess if you owned a Marantz CDR300 how would you work this piece of equipment trying to make your own music and stuff?

Thanks!

Tim

 

[jkokura]

Thanks for your input! So if MP3's aren't the best quality in the industry.... what is the best???

Basically I already had this computer built...

Pentium D 840 (3.2GHz)
2GB of Memory
Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Sound Card.

I guess if you owned a Marantz CDR300 how would you work this piece of equipment trying to make your own music and stuff?

Thanks!

Tim

Wav is the standard at least...that's what all the CD"s you buy and burn need to be! Are you trying to make CD's you'd plug into a stereo or are you trying to make an MP3 disc with tons of songs on it? Like the guy said, use a CD RW drive in your computer to make either of them! For an audio CD you need to use some burning software like Nero or you can find a free program. You can use a program for MP3 discs too (you'd be making a DATA disc by the way) but you can also just drag and drop your files onto the disc and then right click and press 'burn CD'...

Hope that helps...and if you don't have a CD RW drive in your great CPU than somethings really wrong...I'd expect you'd have at LEAST a DVD burner in that thing, and most DVD RW's have CD burning capability too.

Jacob