Originally Posted by TJElite
Interesting...I've never thought of it before. I use EAC to rip, and I've never noticed a recording voltage...I'll have to pay more attention. I wonder if this voltage is what your sound card is seeing, what the sound card is 'outputting' or really some coded in piece of the data. Also, what is the voltage referenced to? Voltage without impedance or current is a pretty useless number.
I'm still not sure how playing back an 8v cd on a 2v deck is bad, but here's a reference that seems to say the 8v cd is bad for sound quality, in the first place.
http://www.johnvestman.com/disease.htm
Toby
I honestly have no clue what specs the CD recording voltage is referenced to, but I know they are recorded high to retain the wide bandwidth of low bass and highs in the recording.
if the rms recording voltage was 8v then the peak volts would be something like 11v which is really high so the measurement may be off. I do know they are recorded at much higher than 2v though and when the signal is normalized you do lose detail and clarity.