well, he should be able to make me a wav file of the original, if he has the CD. I sent him email about it. or if I'm lucky, he can burn me a copy

That's going to a little bit too much trouble. But one thing I'm trying to find out is related to ripping:

If I can hear these problems when I listen to the album on my CD-ROM drive, then does that mean that the CD-ROM drive will reproduce the problems as it's ripping the audio? If I don't hear the problem on a consumer CD player, then does that prove the CD-ROM drive is at fault?

If you listen from this guy's WAV files, then he's got a ripper somewhere in the equation, too, and that's not what I'm after.


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Tony Fabris