Audio burning speed

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For years I have burned my premasters on 1x speed, and safety or productions copies on 1x or 2x speed. Untill recent I always worked with SCSI writers instead of rewriters.

Question: I believe speed has no influence on soundquality, rather than on reliabilty. My writers do support 8x speed (SCSI). Is it reliable to write copies at this speed? Remember these copies are going home with customers. Their not for my own use. Reliability is very important.
 
I have a StartRec 400 that I use. I generally make my copies at 8X using Mitsui silver CD-Rs and haven't had a complaint of a failure yet. I think the real issue with failures comes from the heat build up if you make too many copies without resting the burner. I've found that running the burner for an hour and turning it off for a while...about 30 min. works well. I usually get a SCSI error and a write failure when things get too hot, so I lose a few CDs now and then but nothing bad goes to the client.

Mike
 
I'm not talking about failures.

Some cdr's I got from clients seem to be showing more and more errors when playing back the older they get. What I mean is the reliabilty that the written cdr's are played back correct in most cdplayers and stay good for long time.

I know the brand I'm using does this at 1x speed. Brand is quantigy audio gold, and Hispace printable silver
 
I've been working in the studio too much, my verbal skills are failing! *L* All I can say is I've been burning at 8X for about 2 years and none of my clients have reported any problems of any kind. I even pulled one of my first CD-R projects off the shelf the other day and it played just fine. What happens 5 yrs from now with multiple passes through a player who knows, ... but so far so good.

Mike
 
Generally - the faster the burn rate - the higher the error rate.

What that means in the real world is entirely based on the reader quality. Some readers are just more prone to error driven glitches...

I usually burn my "mix checks" at 4 to 8x...finals at 1 or 2x...reference copies always at 1x...

....finals and reference copies always on Mitsuis.
 
Most production houses will tell you not to burn master CDs for duplication at higher than 2x.
 
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