What brand CD-RW is most desired?

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I need a new CD-RW. Could anyone please advise me of the most respected brands/models to select?

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most desired is the one that works good..(not necesserilly the most expensive and top brand)
I am using a RICOH 16x10x32, and it works fine for me...but sometimes it doesn't like some blank CDs (usually cheap ones), so I stick to TDK discs...and it's ok so far...
good luck
 
I agree totally with ROKER. The best burner is the one with the specs you want that will work. To add... Also the one with a good long warrenty. A year goes by way too fast for a cd burner.

Burner go bad. Burner go back.
 
CD RW brands that most 'pros' use are either Yamaha and Plextor supposedly because they 'sound' better then other CD RW
 
Thanks

Thanks, all, for the replies. I'm figuring out that reliability is more important than almost anything.

How can one CD-RW sound better than another? Aren't we talking data here? 0's and 1's are 0's and 1's as long as they're read and written well, right?
 
there's other factors...the biggest factor being jitter...and other technical stuff like landing, pits, etc.
 
I have been impressed with Yamaha as far as IDE drives go, but almost any scsi drive will offer a faster transfer rate.
 
im using a plextor 12/10/32A and it works like a charm...its well worth the money
 
From my experiance, Plextor / TDK / Liteon all make good drive. I have used all of them. Never used a Yamaha but never heard anything bad about them.

For media, I will buy the cheap generics for copying audio CDs. But when I'm backing up important stuff I use TDKs.
 
lite somtimes gets around copy protection better then some other brands

SirRiff
 
Sony, Plextor, & Yamaha are what I would recommend.

Yes, not all CD's will sound identical. Interesting really, and initially hard to believe for some because the "digital industry" uses language that while not incorrect, does mislead people into believing that digital playback is always perfect. The simple fact of the matter is that a digital audio CD is designed very much to work like its analog counterparts. Where copying data from a data CD is a guaranteed process (pass or fail), reading data from an audio CD is not. The higher the digital error rate, the worse things get. Sometimes this will translate into clicks and pops, in less extreme cases it will simply result in incorrect *sounding* playback. Your player is constantly detecting and correcting errors (or attempting to), and as long as it can stay on track it'll playback whatever it can, even if what it's reading is incorrect. Some players of course are better than others...and every single CD on the planet will contain errors. As long as the rate and severity of the errors is within specifications, a player can correct them and the CD is considered valid.

Here's a great link explaining some of this, if you're into details:

"CD players use parity and interleaving techniques to minimize the effects of an error on the disk. In theory, the combination of parity and interleaving in a CD player can detect and correct a burst error of up to 4000 bad bits -- or a physical defect 2.47 mm long. Interpolation can conceal errors up to 13,700 or physical defects up to 8.5 mm long."

http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/kuhn/cdaudio2/95x7.htm

Slackmaster 2000
 
Another thing to remember about disk transfers is if you go disk to disk any errors on the original will be transferred to the copy. If you first transfer to hard disk any errors will be corrected and you can burn a fresh disk.
 
Went with the Yamaha

Well, thank you all. I went for a Yamaha F-1.

Lower than average error rate, well-supported, well-rated.

Oh, and it works! Ahhh.
 
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