CD Burning Speeds questions

[macgybl]

I have a few burning speed questions:

A. I have a 16x burner, it takes around 4 mins to burn a full CD. If I were to upgrade, why do they advertise a 52x burner to burn at a speed of approx 3-4 mins. By those standards, shouldn't it only take 1.6 mins?? Since 52 is around 3 times greater than 16??

B. Does burning at a higher speed decrease in quality, audio quality at all? Are there any advantages of burning at a slower speed??

Thanks for any input!




A.J.

[phlatline]

A. My burner is 52x, & it usually takes about 2.5mins depending on what I burn.
B. No, I've never noticed a decrease in quality, & I can't think of what the advantages would b going slower.

[aznlurkerz]

Faster is always better, but its only noticable if you burn a full cd, usually a burn wont even reach 52x untill you get to the outer edges of the cd. As for burning slow, there is also an advantage, quality can be higher and it is also required if you need to make "backups" of some types of cds.

aznlurkerz

[Target]

I don't know that the sound "quality" is any different at faster speeds, but I have noticed an increase in sound problems with audio CD's burned at a speed of say 12x or higher. Specifically I have seen things like static, or clicks and pops in the audio. This (for me) generally manifests itself in non-computer CD players (ie: home, car, boat, portables, etc.).

When doing a strictly audio CD only, I tend to stick with a burn speed of 12x or lower using my Plextor 24x burner.

[JohnE.]

Ditto on what Target said...

Also, don't forget - different media like certain speeds more than others, depending on your hardware.

I did a lot of testing (over 400 audio CD's in the last 4 months) and quite often when I burned an audio CD (with my Lite-On 40X) at 24X on generic 48X CMC media, I ended up with pops and clicks. Anything over 24X almost always produced a bad CD, while burning at 12X rarely (if ever) produced audible errors.

The same audio data, burned on generic 48X Princo media at 24X rarely produces errors, while burning at 12X quite often resulted in audible glitches.

I have a small stack of Mitsui Gold (24k gold reflective layer blanks I reserve for backing up Mobile Fidelity and other specialty CD's) that only support up to 12X burning and there's a good reason for that. As the burning speed goes up, so too does the BLER (Block Error Rate). Most CD-ROM drives can effectively error correct any errors on a disk burned at high speeds, but not so your typical stand-alone home CD player or car stereo.

HHB blank media intended for Pro Audio use (by studios and musician's) only support lower max burning speeds, due to the potential for wasted disks from too-fast audio burns.

Depending on the media, 12-24X seems to be about the best burning speed if you don't want pops, clicks, zipper noise, etc.

JohnE.

[Gait_Keeper]

great tips here thanx
Once again I'ved learned something by just browsing the threads
Techimo is great !!!!!!!!

I have had any problem burning at 16x ( music ) but MP3 CD's, 50 to 90 songs I've had some noise, and more noise ( hiss, pop, zoom, bang, ) toward the end of the disk.

I've heard on the Screensavers ( TechTV ) that you don't have to buy audio media to burn music, just experiment with different brands until you find one that works well with your set up

[macgybl]

Wow, I too have learned a lot. Thanks for the info and now I think I'll stick with my 16x max burner, instead pf picking up the verbatim 52x. Thanks again!