Using a 48x burner, is there any optimum speed to burn music cdr's? I'm using these for archiving. Thanks!
the slower the better upto a point. i usually do about 16x for data as older rom drives has a problem reading high speed burnt cd's.
@geezer5 Im with Killerc the slower the better and 4x speed i would say is the optimum speed cause u will have the least skips and error tracks 4x and what CDR's are u using sometimes media can b an issue as is when it comes to DVD's
@aabbccdd Eventually the laser head will not do it properly and u will have missed or quiet tracks slower is better take it from expereince...
Guess there's no universal rule. you hear a lot about slower-is-better, but this from a media faq (from another board): "Very slow burn speeds are not good when using high speed media in a high speed drive. It's also true that you can almost always improve the quality of your burn by lowering the burn speed a "little bit". For example, my 52x drive can produce very acceptable quality discs at 48x on the right media, but quality improves even more if I burn at 40x. I see very little, if any, improvement in quality by lowering the burn speed to 32x, and decreasing quality below 24x. With older, low-speed rated media you might see better quality at very slow burn speeds, but again the best thing is to try it and test it." __________________
if playing on your equipment than try at different speeds to see if any difference or difficulties at various burn speeds.
@ ddp if you burn at a highspeed would the song get a little chopy and the louder you play the music, the worst it gets as for burning at 4x the louder you got the sound quality doesnt get so bad ?
depends on the burner, the player & media. a friend of mine burns music cds usually about 24x & that is with 52x burner.
i think geezer5 hit it on the head .theres no need to drop 52X media(being that its good blank media) with a good burner (Plextor in my case) below half its rated speed. ive burned 100s if not 1000s of cds and never have a sound quality issue burning at a higher speed . so burning below 32X or 16X is really a waste of time.The most important thing is have good blank media and a good system to backup your cds
its really not that good of media use Maxell,TDK or Sony and of course Taiyo Yuden, theses are much better
i would go with the Maxell there easy to find at your local Wal-Mart and also Office Depot runs them on sale alot 100 packs are usally priced from 17 dollars to 20 dollars which is a great deal
ya ill go with maxell then , i bought the 50 pk of kodec cds for 25 , aabbccdd -do u live in the states
