LiteOn 24x10x40x CDRW can't burn under 8x speed, is this a problem?

[techwanabe]

LiteOn 24x10x40x CDRW can't burn under 8x speed. (model 24102b) Is there a good reason why one would want to burn at 1x, 2x, 4x speeds? I've heard of people burning music CDs at lower speeds to ensure good quality burn which can play on all CD players. I myself, had one music CD with bad tracks near the outer edge when I burned at 16x on my LiteOn 16101b CDRW drive. I've been burning all the others a 12x or 8x.

Any experiences or idea's on this? Otherwise, the LiteOn 24x drive looks good.

 

[HappyPuppy]

It won't record under 8x. So what? It will RW under 8x. What's your point?

 

[hopkinsg]

I have that drive myself and haven't had any issues with it... I've been burning my music CD's at 16X without any issues.

 

[papaya]

I've had problems with music cds burnt at 8x on the lite-on...the Nakamichi MB-100 on my car would skip tracks while it's reading them...I wonder if there's something I can do to fix this..maybe try a program other than Nero? Anyone else having this kind of problem?

 

[techwanabe]

<< It won't record under 8x. So what? It will RW under 8x. What's your point? >>


My point is I am considering another purchase, and I was wondering if there is a reason why people would need to burn at speeds slower than 8x. Reiterating what I said in my first post, I have heard that some people report better burns at slower speeds for certain applications like music CDs. You don't use RW CD's for music right? Apparently there is a burn quality issue with the dye's. CDR brands and quality play into this too I'm sure.

 

[nealh]

Personally I tihnk the issues people have are more relaterd to quality of the media than the audio burning software or speed..yes on the fly burns may lead to troulble if there is data cooruption or other problem etc...no audio has failed that I have burned on a fujifilm cdr....other brands I have used have failed..especially cheapo brands

I can not see any advantage to 8x burning..alot slower...
I believe if you use a good HDD as the source and good media I think you can burn at top speed..also I had a overclocking problem ... my fsb was too high and all the cdr are burned were corrupted..once ibacked down everything was fine

 

[techwanabe]

Hmmm.... the one music CD I had with skipping and track problems was a TDK. I burned that one from an original by copying to the hard drive first, and burning at 16x. Maybe I'll try to find some Fuji CDs. To be honest, I've only burned to music CDs at 16x and one of those was bad. The others I've burned at 12x or 8x just because I thought it might ensure a good copy. But if the media is suspect (cheap), maybe it would improve chances to get a good burn by dropping back a notch or two.