[sdiy] OT: Scratchy CDs

[Scott Gravenhorst]

I would rather imagine that a "sweet speed" would probably depend on the
manufacturer of the drive and even the model within their selection of
drives.  I would expect cheaper drives to perform more poorly.  BTW, I don't
doubt your research, but I had never before heard of CDR being destroyed by
burning at 1X.

Also, this has been a very informative OT thread.  In fact, since many/most
of us record music (DIY) one might even say that it was never OT in the first
place.

Thanks list...

Jilt van Moorst <jilt at robotfunk.com> wrote:
>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.
>
>
>

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