[ddots-l] Re: cds
- From: Bryan Smart <bryansmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:28:26 -0400
Chris, the sad thing now is that pretty much all of them are equally garbage.
The quality of the disks seems to matter more than the burner.
Even so, between the disks and burners, you're bound to get some errors on the
disk. For audio, there is error correction that hides a lot of it when you
listen on a regular CD player, but a disk like that won't do for a mastering
house.
Best strategy is to get high quality disks, and to resist the urge to burn at
high speeds. The main way that the burners suck now regards tracking. Higher
speeds makes it harder for them to track the CDR (kind of like cutting a groove
in a record), and bad tracking results in errors. Burning at insane speeds like
40X, 52X, etc is only good for quick test demos. You might not hear glitches
right away, but they almost always are there. I think that most every burner
can handle 4X with good media, so that is a good speed for disks that matter,
but where you don't need to be paranoid. If I were recording a disk to serve as
a master, I'd use 1X.
Yes; disks burned at higher speeds will play, but remember that you're
depending on the error correction to fix up the sound. The problem with that,
outside of burning masters, is that, when you start off with errors, any
physical damage to the disk will result in lots of playback glitches, since the
error correction is already working over time to make everything sound right.
An error free disk can take a scratch or smudge, and keep on playing.
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chris Smart
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 10:07 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: cds
Hi PHil.
Just curious, what make is your burner?
Traditionally, I've heard great things about Plextor, but have never owned one.
I've been using the same Samsung for five years now.
Chris
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