Laurence Payne wrote:

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:48:16 +0000, Julian Fowler
wrote:

He's trying to copy an audio cd in order to play it on his hi-fi.
Who cares?

LOL ... he's trying to copy an audio CD ... and doesn't care whether
the result is an accurate copy of the original? ISTR that this thread
started from the OP's request for assistance in the situation where
copies were audibly *different* from the original - if you want the
guarantee of audio equivalence, surely you need to at least aspire to
equivalence in the digital domain!

He was apparently burning data CDs, pushing wav files through a
normaliser, then maybe even converting to MP3? (I lost track the-)

That's not really relevant to whether Nero's disk copy function can
make a copy good enough to sound accurate on playback through the
normal (and necessary) error-correction mechanisms of an audio CD
player.

In my experience a poor copy will sound like a severely damaged record
with clicks and pops all over the place - the difference using a program
that recognises error flags or reads multiple times is very apparent
without the need for any fancy listening gear. As a previous poster
said, if all your CD's are in pristine condition then this won't matter
but many CD's will have the odd blemish which will be audible with a
program like Nero.

Cheers.

James.