Why would a cd sound distorted on only some cd players?
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That may well be a plant manufacturing fault. A fault which some cd players D/A have some bizarre sensitivity to. Very peculiar.
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I don't know if this is a solution, but you could burn the CD to WAVs and import them into a simple program like Audition or Audacity and lower the volume of the whole album. It's something I do regularly before importing pesky "loudness war" albums into iTunes, when Sound Check just can't make the quieter albums compete. Even Death Magnetic sounds less distorted!
Like I said a little bit back, this weirdness only shows itself in iTunes, although it is somehow linked with this specific cd (and doesn't seem to be the result of any settings within the preferences). I was able to get the same effect by taking the normal audio, boosting it 60dB or so and clipping...
I've decided to look at this discovery as a little gift from the heavens, and I'm starting work on an album of my own music with the same sound quality.
I've decided to look at this discovery as a little gift from the heavens, and I'm starting work on an album of my own music with the same sound quality.
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Bit rot.
Someone gave me a CD-R twelve years ago. Six years later I ripped it, it was good then. Six more years later I pop the CD-R in the same player and it is all distorted. Lucky for me I had the ripped files and simply made another CD-R.
It seems to depend on the brand of CD-R. I have older CD-Rs that are still going strong. Certain CD-Rs do suffer from bit rot which is corrosion of the aluminum bits under the layer which no longer reflect laser light.
Someone gave me a CD-R twelve years ago. Six years later I ripped it, it was good then. Six more years later I pop the CD-R in the same player and it is all distorted. Lucky for me I had the ripped files and simply made another CD-R.
It seems to depend on the brand of CD-R. I have older CD-Rs that are still going strong. Certain CD-Rs do suffer from bit rot which is corrosion of the aluminum bits under the layer which no longer reflect laser light.
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