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On ripping scratched CDs

I admit to having obtained more than a few used and consequently scratched CDs. Most will successfully play through on my Rotel RCD-1072 but not all of the musically better CDs can be successfully ripped without audible errors when making a backup copy. A few have been helped after using Mapleshade's Mikrosmooth.

In the past, I ripped at 32x and when burning, used 16x speed with varying results. Will ripping at something like 16x and burning at 8x or 4x give me any better results or am I correct to expect that the scratch errors are simply read at a slower speed and burned at a slower speed?


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Topic - On ripping scratched CDs - Postal Grunt 20:29:21 04/5/16 (11)

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