[78-L] Magix and Standalone CD burner components

[Dave Stuckey]

>I've been using DCart for years with reasonable success. Tracer has some
>good documentation on restoration, having done several CD's worth
>themselves. The DCart manual includes a step-by-step for restoring 78's.
>There is also a user forum, where issues and techniques are discussed.
>I'm not familiar with the Magix software, but it sounds unreliable and
>hard to use, less automatic than it claims.


Not sure where you've heard that...Magix couldn't be simpler...a far
less "burn fail" rate than, say Nero...and far less complicated than
Diamond Cut (and at $40, a *whole* lot cheaper than the $200 DC
program).

As far as the whole restoration thing goes, it's always best to go
easy on it...it's so easy to "over-restore" a 78. Even with the
so-called 'professional' market, one false move and you've got those
horrible Vintage Music Productions CD's...great music wrecked by all
that crunchy "audio-pixelization".

We're just in the consumer market here, so letting ACL take a pass at
it with it's auto setting, then maybe tweaking that a little bit,
offers best results IMO.

As far as standalone CD recorders, I could never get with them, only
because there's so little editing capabilities...you more or less get
what you get...

DS