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Originally Posted by newkid  I always burn at 1x.
Would higher speeds ever be better??
CD errors are a problem.
I believe I saw ultra low error rate CDs at Discmakers.
It would be worth buying them for master CDs.
Replicators will reject files for errors even though they seem to play okay on your home CD player. |
I always burn at 1x here for audio and give out 2 audio discs...one for client, one for duplication that is sealed, 1 data and 1 image.
Every mastering engineer I know burns at no more than 2x speed. However, most of the CD burners today have write errors under control and buffer under-run is a thing of the past. I can literally burn at 40-52 times here with no artifacts. There was a time when any audio burned over 8x would bring on clicks, pops, errors, skips....but today with the latest software and burners, I have not experienced this problem since maybe 2000.
I still feel all audio for duplication should be burned at 1x to play it safe though....but that's just me. I've never had a project that had to be redone due to write errors etc. Then again, if there WERE errors, data files and an image file were also sent...so chances are the dupe house didn't even use the audio cd other than for a reference.