Recommend a good CD burner, Please

[Chelvam]

Hi,

Can you guys tell me the a good CD burner to burn perfect audio cds. Price
range is about US100. I have checked various PCguide and magz but hoping to
hear from anyone who has done perfect audio cd burning.

Is there any difference between a cheap CD burner and an expensive one?

Thanks.

 

[Harry]

I bought a Sony CRX320E here in the UK and it is the best. Worked
first time with XP and I have never had a disc fail to burn. Music CDs
are a doddle too!

It writes at 40x and can also read DVDs

It cost me £30

I see its listed in Ebuyer.com for $50
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=130277

cheers

Harry

 

[Chelvam]

I bought a Sony CRX320E here in the UK and it is the best. Worked
first time with XP and I have never had a disc fail to burn. Music CDs
are a doddle too!

It writes at 40x and can also read DVDs

It cost me £30

I see its listed in Ebuyer.com for $50
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X2
92ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=130277

cheers

Harry

Thanks Harry, I spent a fortune on the DVD drive and realised I can't burn
CD. Then I bought a cheap writer and found that the audio cd copies are not
that great.

Some say i should get a good writer. Some say it should not make any
difference. rather confused because my copies are definetely not as good as
my original.

Regards.

 

[Harry]

Thanks Harry, I spent a fortune on the DVD drive and realised I can't burn
CD. Then I bought a cheap writer and found that the audio cd copies are not
that great.

Some say i should get a good writer. Some say it should not make any
difference. rather confused because my copies are definetely not as good as
my original.

Regards.

Glad I could help.

As a side issue I use Nero for creating all my music CDs and it is (to
me) the best burning software around.

I do drap and drop data backups directly onto the CD in XP, but Nero
is the one for the music CDs...

Harry

 

[Matt]

Hi,

Can you guys tell me the a good CD burner to burn perfect audio cds. Price
range is about US100. I have checked various PCguide and magz but hoping to
hear from anyone who has done perfect audio cd burning.

Is there any difference between a cheap CD burner and an expensive one?

Thanks.

"Shop by category" at newegg.com. Sort by number of votes.

 

[Wes Newell]

Hi,

Can you guys tell me the a good CD burner to burn perfect audio cds. Price
range is about US100. I have checked various PCguide and magz but hoping to
hear from anyone who has done perfect audio cd burning.

For under $100, you can get a DVD burner (which also burns cd's).
Actually, you can probably get some older 4x dvd burners for under $50. CD
burners are under $30 now on sale.

Is there any difference between a cheap CD burner and an expensive one?

Not enough to justify $100 for one.

 

[Ralph Mowery]

Thanks Harry, I spent a fortune on the DVD drive and realised I can't burn
CD. Then I bought a cheap writer and found that the audio cd copies are not
that great.

Some say i should get a good writer. Some say it should not make any
difference. rather confused because my copies are definetely not as good as
my original.

The copies should be exectally the same as the origional. If they are not
then it is the software that is doing something to the data. The "audio" on
the CDs are digital data. It has to be copied exectally. If it is not an
exect copy then you or the software you are using is converting or
compressing the data to put more songs on one CD.
It does not mater if you use the cheapest cd writer , if it will copy a
computer program , it will poduce an audio CD exectally. While you may get
away with a few bits of audio data or pix data missing or changed a computer
program will not work if one bit it changed in many cases.

 

[David Maynard]

Thanks Harry, I spent a fortune on the DVD drive and realised I can't burn
CD. Then I bought a cheap writer and found that the audio cd copies arenot
that great.

Some say i should get a good writer. Some say it should not make any
difference. rather confused because my copies are definetely not as good as
my original.

Not as good in what way? They're digital and the copy is exactly the same,
unless you're doing some kind of 'translation' into a different format/bit
rate, but then that's not the burner's problem.

If you're having reader problems, or dropouts and skips, then it's more
likely to be the media. Are you using audio CD blanks or plain CD-Rs?

 

[Chelvam]

Chelvam wrote:

...(snip..snip).

If you're having reader problems, or dropouts and skips, then it's more
likely to be the media. Are you using audio CD blanks or plain CD-Rs?

You mean there is such thing as audio CD blanks? Thanks alot, been using
plain CD-R.

Too old to keep with tech, i guess.

 

[Bad Bob]

Chelvam wrote:

..(snip..snip).


You mean there is such thing as audio CD blanks? Thanks alot, been using
plain CD-R.

Too old to keep with tech, i guess.

Don't waste your money on audio CD-R's. They are for stand alone
CD recorders and they cost more.
Just try different brands of media till you find one that works well
with your burner. You can probably ask a few friends to borrow a
couple of disks from them to save on the cost of the experiment.

 

[Mac Cool]

Some say i should get a good writer. Some say it should not make any
difference. rather confused because my copies are definetely not as
good as my original.

You want a writer that can do digital audio extraction, I thought all
writers now have that capability, but early ones didn't. Early writers
would essentially record audio, converting it to analog and then back to
digital resulting in a slight generational loss of quality. I have some cd
rips that are too midrangy for my tastes. These days I just rip to MP3
which I play in the truck and keep the CDs in the house, often I play MP3s
in the house and don't even bother with CDs.

http://teamcombooks.com/mp3handbook/15.htm

 

[Guest]

Can you guys tell me the a good CD burner to burn perfect
audio cds. Price range is about US100.

Probably a Lite-On, TEAC, or Sanyo, but I just buy whatever is on
sale, often for $0-20, after rebate, and prices at local stores are
listed at www.salescircular.com (but they miss many Fry's specials).
The brands featured are typically Mad Dog or Khypermedia, which merely
market drives made by other companies, usually BTC, Optirite, BenQ, or
Lite-On, and some people can tell which brand is inside by looking at
the serial number printed on the box (Fatwallet.com, Anandtech.com
buying forums), and "LTR" indicates Lite-On.

www.cdrinfo.com has reviews of CD and DVD drives and performs
extensive tests on them. Creating perfect audio CDs isn't as
difficult as reading copy-protected disks, which some models do better
than others.

 

[Chelvam]

Thank you, everyone. I managed to get it right.

Cheers.

 

[David Maynard]

Chelvam wrote:

..(snip..snip).




You mean there is such thing as audio CD blanks? Thanks alot, been using
plain CD-R.

Yes. It shouldn't make a difference when playing back on the computer but
audio CD players use a different wavelength laser diode and the audio CD
blanks use a different dye to better accommodate them.

Too old to keep with tech, i guess.

Not really. It seems to be one of the better kept secrets and even in a so
called 'computer store' none of the clerks I've run into have a clue what
the reason for them is.

 

[Chelvam]

Chelvam wrote:

(snip..snip)

Yes. It shouldn't make a difference when playing back on the computer but
audio CD players use a different wavelength laser diode and the audio CD
blanks use a different dye to better accommodate them.

Are you telling that a burned audio cd and cd-r using a PC sounds different
when playing in home cd player?

 

[David Maynard]

Are you telling that a burned audio cd and cd-r using a PC sounds different
when playing in home cd player?

If it plays in the home CD player it should sound the same but some home
players won't play them (usually older ones) and if they do there may be
places where it drops out or skips.


What did you find as 'the problem'?

 

[Chelvam]

plays in the home CD player it should sound the same but some home

players won't play them (usually older ones) and if they do there may be
places where it drops out or skips.


What did you find as 'the problem'?

My problem was the sound is rather thin compared to the original. But I
tried one more copy using the lowest burn speed and it seemed to be alright.

 

[Ralph Mowery]

Not really. It seems to be one of the better kept secrets and even in a so
called 'computer store' none of the clerks I've run into have a clue what
the reason for them is.

I am not sure what the status is now but when the first Audio CDs came out
they had a special track on them. This was suspose to be a surcharge for
them that was to go to the recording industry so the artists could be paid
for their songs. YOu had to use them in special duplicating machines.
Most computer cdrw drives would not write to them.

 

[JT]

Yes. It shouldn't make a difference when playing back on the computer but
audio CD players use a different wavelength laser diode and the audio CD
blanks use a different dye to better accommodate them.


Not really. It seems to be one of the better kept secrets and even in a so
called 'computer store' none of the clerks I've run into have a clue what
the reason for them is.

The reason is not the Dye, it is for the extra TAX added on to the CD/R
audio disks, so they will legally run in the stand alone audio cd copiers.
The stand alone copiers read the code from the CD/R and if it is not an
"audio" cd/r, they will not use it.

JT

 

[Stephen]

Yes. It shouldn't make a difference when playing back on the computer but
audio CD players use a different wavelength laser diode and the audio CD
blanks use a different dye to better accommodate them.

The audio cdr discs have a certain data bit set on the disc. Data
cdrs don't have this bit set. That is the only difference.

Audio cdrs usually cost more due to the added on copyright tax the
RIAA had added on.

Stephen


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