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by LAKHAN on November 5th, 2004

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Does the speed at which you burn a CD or DVD affect the quality of the file you are writing? Is it better to burn discs slowly?

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  • by RedJohn on November 6th, 2005

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    Absolutely. I have made it a practice to use the slowest recording speed for CDs and DVDs that I create, in particular for audio CDs. Most CD or DVD burners are relatively cheap consumer commodities - the minimum acceptable quality for the minimum price possible. The reject rate of optical media is higher when you record at higher speeds. I have been creating optical disks for 10 years with many different burners and have found a direct correlation in the disk reject / error rate and the recording speed.

    On audio CDs, in particular, jitter increases in direct proportion to the recording speed. A CD player is supposed to handle jitter, but most don't. Increased jitter means reduced playback quality. Also, the higher number of errors on a CD burned at high speeds produce audible artifacts. While audio CDs are supposed to be corrected in the player, a series of borderline errors cannot be properly corrected on inexpensive consumer CD players.

    The quality of the media blanks also plays an important role in the quality of the finished product. Some recordable CDs and DVDs are quite poor quality. They usually work, but don't expect them to perform well over the long term or in different environments. I have noticed this with CD copies I made for use in the car: the ones recorded at the higher speeds and/or using cheap media often cannot play in cold weather because of disk errors.

    A little research should be done before you buy optical media blanks. The cheapest ones are usually not very good and some companies simple make better quality media.

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    • I recommend TDK, these are high quality blank CD and DVD media and I've had less problems with TDKs than any other brand of blank CD or DVD.

      Stay away from Verbatim CDs and DVDs, they are the worst and the rates of producing "coasters" is higher with these than even generic discs.

      AudioDruid888

      by AudioDruid888 on November 17th, 2010

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