am i getting the best sound this way

[oroville]

OK am I getting the best quality this way first I download an album in flac then burn it to a CD using gburner (even adds CD text for me) anyways then I put it in my Sony MXD-D5C and record in SP mode and play the new MD with my sharp 702 MD player with some audio-technica ATH-M50 headphones any thoughts thanks...

[THIS SUCKS]

its cheaper if you buy a digitial optical output for your computer then you dont need cds

[oroville]

but then I have to name and t mark tracks not fun.

[PhilippeC]

oroville also make a copy for storage and he spare place on his PC after that

[oroville]

But am I getting the best quality?

And I do have back ups I just keep all of the flac files on a ssd on my pc

[PhilippeC]

To catch the best quality if you are recording in real time from your PC, you need to get an ultimate audiophile 24bit/192kHz soundcard.

For example from Creative Soundblaster, That is what ME I have... even if it is only 24bit/96kHz (X-Fi Platinium).

Or, much better when you, sorry I will be rich, the M2TECH HIFACE interface (a jitter highly destructive unit) plus a real audiophile (and expensive) DAC (Rega or Naim...).

[sfbp]

The other thing you can do is to upsample (from 44.1 kHz 16 bit) to 96 (or 88) kHz 24-bit, which is then fed to the (power) amplifier.

This article is interesting: http://lampizator.eu/lampizator/TRANSPORT/behringer/Behringer.html

Thanks to Bluecrab for telling about this device. It really works!

[PhilippeC]

interesting