Recommendations for High Quality Burner

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  1. iklimon

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    I currently have a Philips DVD+RW burner. I've found that whenever I try to burn audio CDs I can't play them on my year old DVD/CD player. However, my buddy has an iMac and every audio CD he burns works fine on my DVD/CD player (Sony model).

    I'm looking for a burner (preferrably a DVD combo drive) that will flawlessly produce audio CDs so that I can make "mixed" audio CDs of my 21,000 MP3s with confidence.

    Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
     
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    Just a follow up. While I'm interested in speed, I'll take quality over speed for this purpose.

    Thanks for your forthcoming suggestions.
     
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    One more piece of information:

    I am currently using the WinXP CD burning routine to burn audio CDs. Could that be part of the problem?

    I use EAC w/LAME to rip my MP3s...but haven't tried burning an audio CD with it (not sure if you can.)

    Again, any suggestion to help solve the issue would be greatly appreciated.

    :)

    Thanks
     
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    Have you tried burning the same media as your buddy uses at low speed (something like 8x)?

    There's a Yamaha CD Burner that has a special feature for burning audio. You'll probably find it browsing Yamaha's web page.
     
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    Yes, we use identical media, one of the recommended (here on this site) media manufacturers (labelled by Memorex).

    I haven't tried burning slower (WinXP doesn't appear to give you that option?)

    Is EAC a reasonable burner? Is there great burning software out there (in the way that a lot of folks agree that EAC is one of the best rippers?)
     
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    I use EAC for burning audio CDs, especially for copying CD->CD-R (-> single .wav + cue sheet). AFAIK it doesn't work with all hardware out there but I'd give it a try. Nero Burning Rom is another widely used all-purpose burning software; feurio seems to be good for burning audo CDs from mp3s as it's good in handeling damaged mp3s. Freeware alternatives (for audio): http://www.apehaus.com/burrrn/ Burrn, Burnatonce.

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    Yamaha Burner: Yes - that "Advanced Audio Master" feature is what I had in mind. Meybe you find a DVD burner that offers this feature when writing audio CDs ...
     
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    The developer of EAC (Andre) much prefers the Plextors - and for good reason. If you get the Plextor Premium - set it's max speed to 40x. Until burning s/w can write at variable speeds -it's best to limit write speed. My system does fine at 20x but not at 24x so I set it at 16x. You can select the write speed in EAC which also has a forum well worth monitoring.
     
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