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Shelly

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CD Write Speed
« on: September 15, 2003, 09:47:06 am »
I had a recent conversation with a tech support person from Plextor after one of my drives failed. Our conversation drifted to optimal write speeds for achieving the best quality audio.  His recommendation is to use a max of 4x when burning an audio cd.  I was floored to hear this, having always burned at max speed.  I just wondering if you all agree with him or not?
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Re: CD Write Speed
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2003, 12:51:07 pm »
Wow 4x only  ?

Did he suggest that speed regardless of the speed of the writer or media?

ie burn at 4x in all circumstances for best quality?
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Re: CD Write Speed
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2003, 01:05:00 pm »
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Wow 4x only  ?

Did he suggest that speed regardless of the speed of the writer or media?

ie burn at 4x in all circumstances for best quality?


That was exactly my reaction.  We discussed it at length and he said non-audio cd's can burn at any speed but the quality of audio will deteriorate over 4x.
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Re: CD Write Speed
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2003, 03:40:00 pm »
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Our conversation drifted to optimal write speeds for achieving the best quality audio.

is that why i was on hold another 15 mns?
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Re: CD Write Speed
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2003, 05:14:23 pm »
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is that why i was on hold another 15 mns?


LOL - You got it!
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Re: CD Write Speed
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2003, 06:28:51 pm »
I've got a 48 speed Lite-On burner but tend not to burn audio over 24x.  I thought I was being over cautious at that!

Thanks for the info Shelly. :)
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Re: CD Write Speed
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2003, 09:54:48 pm »
I burn at 48x and never have a problem.  I don't see how audio quality can suffer, surely the file is either copied successfully or it's not.
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Re: CD Write Speed
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2003, 09:59:23 pm »
I have also read this somewhere before. And I believe that it is quite true.

This is to reduce the so call error in burning. I am not too sure of how this is suppose to go about, but I believe that when you are burning at high speed, sometimes there is minute errors that will occur. It is just that rom nowadays have good error correction and thus are still able to read those disc. But maybe when you put it into a high-end disc player then maybe those error will become more prominent?
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