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Maximum burning speed

What is the recommended speed for burning audio Cd's?

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Thks.
 

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Between 2x and 32x

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Reply #4 –
Interesting.

I always thought that lower speed = better quality. But then I bought a new burner (Philips 16x10x40) and my CD-player wouldn't even play the CD's that were burned @ 1x - 12x. The ones that were burned @ 16x played fine though.

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Between 2x and 32x

But more typically 8x-24x - there's some evidence that media designed to burn well at up to 48x doesn't burn well at very slow speeds.  That's a lot to ask - a disc that burns equally well at 2x and at 48x

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A friend of mine have a old HP writer that write at 2x and the audio cd written are the ones that my old car cd player reads, My cd writer write at 8x max and the audo and data cd are fine, I never ahd troubles but my old car cd player doen't read them. Any suggstions?
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A friend of mine have a old HP writer that write at 2x and the audio cd written are the ones that my old car cd player reads, My cd writer write at 8x max and the audo and data cd are fine, I never ahd troubles but my old car cd player doen't read them. Any suggstions?

Give your friend $30 dollars for the HP drive (or give them to me, I have one!)
 




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there's some evidence that media designed to burn well at up to 48x doesn't burn well at very slow speeds.

Can you provide a link, please ? CDRInfo jitter tests, show exellent quality at 4x for 48x media.
At 1x, Only the Yamaha AudioMaster seems to give average results. Normal burning at 1x give good results.

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/S...r+Tests&index=4
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/S...r+Tests&index=9

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Reply #9 –
I once read somewhere, that some CD recorders don't reduce the intensity of the laser when burning at low speeds. This could be the reason why CDs which were burned at low speeds in high-speed writers make problems. The pits are kind of unsharp then...

I don't know if that's true or if it's totally wrong - but it sounds plausible to me.

Regards, fileman.

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Reply #10 –
Here's an article that examines the questions about CD burning speeds, concluding that most drives burn best at or near their maximum speed (granted, it's from 2000, and things have gotten faster, but I imagine the underlying issues are still the same):
http://www.emedialive.com/EM2000/starrett5.html

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I believe 2x to 16x to be the real safe margin. It is above 16x where the drives start swithing speeds at different parts of the disc  I am honestly scared of 52x writters, didn't anyone ever read those Phillips specs where physical tests demonstrated that discs would broke apart from 50x to 60x??? Even if for short time... I don't like it. I would even desire a method to slow down those cheapo 52x cdrom drives

1x is reserved only for gold discs, as other materials don't take too kindly that amount of heat in such a short place for so long time.

BTW: I just found an old Kodak Gold empty, burned it, but it failed reading completely... hehehe, i guess storing empty discs for long time is not good  I was going to compare to another kodak "silver" i found with data on it, ah well.
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Reply #12 –
Yes, 16x for me it's optimal too. When I go over 24x sometimes I have problems on old CD players.

And the speed difference when you go over 32x/40x isn't too big, because the maximum velocity will be reached only at the end of the burning.
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didn't anyone ever read those Phillips specs where physical tests demonstrated that discs would broke apart from 50x to 60x???

50 to 60x minimum CLV, that stands for more than 100x max. Anyway, it's not far. I don't like the idea of my CDs spining at half the speed needed to break them.

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Here's an article that examines the questions about CD burning speeds, concluding that most drives burn best at or near their maximum speed

Looking at the measurments made by the author, I don't see any consistent behaviour of the error rate vs the burning speed. Several measurments even show that the error rate is lower at low speed.