The problem I'm experiencing may be either software or hardware. However,
I'm leaning toward software but I'm just not sure.

I have recorded CD music tracks using both Music Match and MS Media Player
7.10 but the voices particularly, on playback have the same low hissing edge
on the voices no matter which software I use. I re-recorded an album of
Linda Ronstadt's best using the highest quality that MS Media Player could
muster and I still have the "burr" on the voices where every note seems to
have "ssss-sss-ss" at the beginning of every word.

When I play the same CD on the computer directly in MS/MP - not the recorded
and stored version, the sound is great and the notes are clear and precise
(well, as clear and precise as you can get from PC-based speakers anyway).

I tried a brand new set of Harmon Karden speakers right out of the box but
had the same results so I'm 99% sure it is not the speakers. Could it be my
old SoundBlaster Pro that is the culprit here? Surely though, when you are
playing a CD directly on the PC, it would be using the SB card wouldn't it
and in that case, why would the sound be so clear?

It would appear to me that the recording software is the most likely
limiting factor here but why would two different recording applications be
so bad? And why, using the same software, would the direct play be so good
in comparison?

Has anyone experienced this before - and most of all, resolved it somehow?

Larry Stewart
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