At what speed do you burn your audio CDs?
I have already googled searched this topic, but am more curious as to what speed you all burn it.
I have read things ranging from burning it at slower speed (1x - 4x) to low to medium speeds (8x - 16x) as being very common. Today a friend of mine who has been using ds for years said he always burns at the fastest possible speed and has never noticed anything wrong when playing on big sound systems.
At what speed do you burn?
used ‘fastest possible’ for a year or two but it sometimes spit the CD out mid burn saying it was fecked,
Never had any problems with 4x which i use now
Same exact thing here..
Just use good quality CDs to start with, the cheap ones will bite you, such as at the gig…
What brand would you recommend?
I consider myself an audiophile, and I personally found Verbatim to be the best so far. Over ten years now and they still play well.
I’ve tried all kinds of brands and they’ve deteriorated and won’t play…it’s such a shame.
I also burn my CD’s as slow as possible.
And if you are using modern CDJs, most of them accept USB and/or SD cards, far more reliable than CDs.
I know, I have USBs ready for CDJ2000s, just that a few upcoming gigs dont have them.
Thanks Rexx, ill look into that brand.
There shouldn’t be any sound quality difference in how fast you burn the CD; the problem is faster burning can introduce errors which will cause the burn to fail. But it should either work right or not work at all, unless I’m missing something?
To ensure the strongest burn with the least amount of potential errors, always use the slowest possible speed. Period. Using high-quality medium is highly recommended, but you should always use the minimum burn speed.
Been using “fastest possible” for 10 years and never had a problem with even half-decent CDR drives. Perfect checksums.
If you’re dumb enough to buy iomega or bargain-basement crap drives, it doesn’t matter what speed you burn at, because most of your CDs will be screwed anyway.
BTW, I feel the same way about media. There is a difference with regard to what speed they’ll work at, but the cheapest CDRs always performed the best for me back when I was using physical media.
I’ve had terrible experiences with the Frys 50 pack cheap-cheap sets. Stopped using them after learning the hard way that you don’t want to disk burning bits to lesser quality CD media.
Right. IDK why but 100-packs always seemed to work better for me than 50-packs.
I usually burn as slow as possible to ensure no errors on my cds.
I’ve had cds skip or fail when I burn too fast. I now burn at like 1x and have never had any cd fail on me.
everything else equal, burning speed makes a huge difference in practice. i mean, nobody really uses CD-Rs anymore but this stuff was frequently tested like a decade ago, using both RL as well as accelerated-aging tests. i recall that discs burned at 4x or 8x speed typically had a number of years longer life expectancy than discs burned at 16x, 24x, or higher.
back in the day, the drive quality and the brand of the media mattered, too. but perhaps not anymore. at least as to the CD-R media, wikipedia says: “Branding isn’t a reliable guide to quality, because many brands (major as well as no name) do not manufacture their own discs. Instead they are sourced from different manufacturers of varying quality. For best results, the actual manufacturer and material components of each batch of discs should be verified.”