[sdiy] OT: Scratchy CDs

[Jilt van Moorst]

OK this was certainly true a few years ago, when 4x burning was 'pretty 
darn fast' but in the 52x age you can actually destroy your cd's by 
overheating them when burning that slow, most recent burners won't allow 
such low speeds anyway. I'd like to see some updated reports on the current 
audio burning speed sweet spot .

Jilt van Moorst

At 01:11 PM 9/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Gents,
>I read yet another article in TapeOP magazine about burning Cds for
>pro-audio. According to the article, burning at 1x on critical audio CDs
>reduces errors dramatically. ( Sorry, but my brain is toast and I can't
>think of any jargon to throw in there.:)) However, at the very least jitter
>errors are greatly reduced and apparently there is a lot more "digital
>headroom" so the error correction facilities do not have to work as hard.
>The same goes for disc-to-disc direct transfer. I have noticed a major
>improvement when using cheap CD-R media at 1x. When using excellent media
>the sound appeared to be more harmonically rich when burned at 1x. It just
>takes forever.