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How does burn speed affect CD quality

butchblack

butchblack

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Jan 25, 2007
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Waltham Massachusetts
#1
Hi all

Strange question. Does burn speed affect CDR quality? The reason I'm asking is that I recently got a new car, a 2002 Mazda Protege5 with a CD player. I burned some CD's and the all seem to skip about mid way through. I went on a Mazda forum and found this was a common problem and the suggestions were to burn slower and maybe switch to Imation brand CDR's (I'm using Maxells). It logically makes sense to me that burning at a slower speed might cut down on errors. If there is someone more knowledgeable that can confirm or deny that I'd appreciate that. I burned a CD at 4X tonight and I'll try it driving to work tomorrow, Any other suggestions are welcome.
 
#2
Theoretically, a slower burn speed should introduce fewer errors than a faster speed. Lots of other factors to consider, though, such as the quality of the burner and the discs. The engineering specifics are WAY over my head.

I've never had a problem with Maxell CDR-Pro.

What are you burning with?
What types of files?
 
#4
lemur821 said:
Trouble reading burned CDs seems to be common on older CD players.
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But I think this was even more due to old cd burners. I mean, with this old 2x burner I used years ago to burn demo cds for my first band we had all this trouble with the cds etc.

Now last time I did cd-r demos was in 2006, burned them at 32x (my drive was 42x but the songs only amounted to 12 minutes it was a matter of seconds anyway). Not a single disc was unplayable in any given player we tried and not a single person contacted me about an unplayable disc.

So what I'm saying is, I guess all those "Super Hyper Ultra RAM PCAV Extended Anti-Shock Buffer Prevention Protection" technologies you see on the cd-rw drives actually do something =) Unless you use really crap blanks, every player except maybe your daddy's old 1988 cd player will play cd-rs burned with modern drives, no matter if you burn them at 16x, 32x or 52x.

Just IME and so on, please feel free to prove me wrong everyone =)
 

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