Please don't rush to defend Dbpoweramp, I know its a good program and the problem is on my end. I purchased it yesterday, downloaded and started playing with it. I started with a CD I had not previously added to my Music Bee collection, Sade, Love deluxe. Not the best CD in the world, but it was in perfect shape visually. I burned it and every track verified. My settings were Flac, and I chose Secure, assuming my drive detected c errors, (at least they showed on bad CDs with a MusicBee rip) chose 1 ,2 and 1 as the re rip choices it recommended for devices that could detect them. I did not perform the test with the blacked out pie slice on an old CD. I chose level 5 as recommended for compression.
I transferred to MusicBee by opening file, add to library, and moved it track by track to Music Bee. It sounded congested, not at all like I remembered it. No air around the voice or instruments, sort of like something was being overdriven to distortion. As a test, I recued it up, and placed the CD in a 1990s Phillips CD player as transport, and a DAC also from the 90s, Audio Alchemy single bit, way outdated technology. It walked all over my expensive lap top with MusicBee, Audioquest Dragonfly and jitterbug.
Then I deleted the file from MusicBee, and reburned it using MusicBee, Wasapi output. Results were every track "partially Accurate", I didn't rerip, just left it as was. Playback was by far, the best so far by a large margin. I understand it outperforming the hardware from the 90's, but what did I do to screw up the burn with dBPoweramp?
Confused,
Russellc
Topic: Db Poweramp....what did I do wrong? Worst digtal recording ever... (Read 2005 times)