Best CD writer and media for burning

[gryphon1972 0]

when you going to sell your yamaha writer?

[Blacknight 0]

Heard that the Mitsubishi AZO Blue Diamond is not to shabby either, it ranks among the Taiyo Yudens. You can get it at Chamoxa, SLS 6th Floor. I think it is $13 for 25 CDs

[gryphon1972 0]

Heard that the Mitsubishi AZO Blue Diamond is not to shabby either, it ranks among the Taiyo Yudens. You can get it at Chamoxa, SLS 6th Floor. I think it is $13 for 25 CDs

I went to SLS yesterday.....saw lots of Japanese brand but made in taiwan.....

 

I saw the mitsubishi too.....not stated the country of manufacture....seems to be from Japan......

[evil-zen 0]

mitsubitshi is pretty safe. just look out for the word azo. or verbatim too as it is the subsidary company of mitsubitshi. again, look out for azo or datalifeplus

[Firefox 0]

Anyways, be warned that some Lite-on burners don't like the Phlathocyanine dye used in Mitsui, Kodak & Taiyo Yuden Gold media.

[flipper 0]

EAC+Plextor+Mitsubishi+1x

[Firefox 0]

Heard that the Mitsubishi AZO Blue Diamond is not to shabby either, it ranks among the Taiyo Yudens. You can get it at Chamoxa, SLS 6th Floor. I think it is $13 for 25 CDs

The Blue Diamond isn't so bad. But I use it for burning data CD's instead.

I'd rate it just a tad under the TY discs.

[Tenson 0]

I find my biggest prob with CD-R quality is that they are not perfectly circular. In my Arcam Alpha9 CD player if I press pause the normal CD will be fine, but with a CD-r it will make a slight 'chopping/scraping' noise. Better CD-R will not do this. Anyone else have this? Its only when it is on pause.

 

Allot of the El'cheapo CD-R's are the same as the top makes like Memorex and TDK.

 

Nero comes with a program called 'Nero CD Speed' which on one of the menu has a CD Info button. This will tell you the 'real' manufacturer of the media. For example this is what it tells me about my Memorex CD-R:

 

Manufacture - Prodisc

Code - 97m32s19f

Recording Layer - Dye type 9: Short strategy (phthalocyanine)

Capacity - 79:59:72

 

That’s the useful info. If I do the same with some by 'MaxMedia' which were 100CDs for £19 I get exactly the same info. Prodisc make allot of the CD-R's out there.

 

I have not noticed any difference with a different CD writer. Currently I use a AOpen 52x24x52 and burn audio at 24X just to be sure. No probs. Sounds fine at 52x as well. YMMV

Edited July 28, 2003 by Tenson

[Welly Wu 0]

I have both the Plextor PX-W4824TU and PX-708UF. I use MAM-A and Taiyo Yuden blank CD-R & DVD +/- R/RW discs. My audio ripper is EAC prebeta 5. My chosen compression codec is LAME 3.95.1. I also use DVD Shrink 3.1.7. Everything works nicely to support my audio addiction.

[arj 0]

i have listen to a copy/burn cd and the comparing the sound with the original. i lost the headroom on the burn cd. its just ain't the same. My friend gave me another burn cd and i don't have the spirit to listen to the sound of it.

 

All i am saying, is it worthed to listen to a burn cd. its like a 'pirated' cd quality.