01-01-2007, 01:49 AM
right. But that is different than trying to burn a Music CD-R rated at say 4x burn speed at 52x in a burner hooked up to a computer.
I checked that batch of Imation Music CD-Rs, and they aren't labeled as to max burn speed. But most stand alones were real time, so they were 1x. I think there were faster high-speed dual drive machines that were 2 or 4x. Even then, you will need to butn them slowly, as opposed to blasting them at full speed.
The dyes are designed to be heated up within a certain time frame, and burning too fast won't allow for proper dye burning, and may make them unplayable, or at least prone to read errors unless you have major oversampling in your playback machine. Burning a high speed disk to slowly can be just as bad. but I usually burn music CDs at about 8x, which is still safe for media rated at 52x AFAIK.
I checked that batch of Imation Music CD-Rs, and they aren't labeled as to max burn speed. But most stand alones were real time, so they were 1x. I think there were faster high-speed dual drive machines that were 2 or 4x. Even then, you will need to butn them slowly, as opposed to blasting them at full speed.
The dyes are designed to be heated up within a certain time frame, and burning too fast won't allow for proper dye burning, and may make them unplayable, or at least prone to read errors unless you have major oversampling in your playback machine. Burning a high speed disk to slowly can be just as bad. but I usually burn music CDs at about 8x, which is still safe for media rated at 52x AFAIK.