Burning Speed=Sound Quality?

[Emericana]

My friend told me that the faster you burn a music cd, the lower the quality of the music. For example, he says that if you burn a CD at 1x, it will have better quality than if you burn it at 24x. Is this true? I guess i dont wanna wait 70 minutes to find out... :-)

[RED Hot Machine]

The speed at which you burn a CD has no effect on the quality of the audio played from it.


For future reference questions like this would be better in General hardware. :D

[Escuchamezz]

how is it that its always "the friend"

[KaHNZa]

It doesn't make a difference. You could burn at 1,000,000x as long as the hardware supports it and your CD would still sound the same.

[MoPMatrix]

The only thing that could effect it is if u get lil buffer under runs and u get skips or pauses in the music. Happens more with mp3s then it does with regular audio cd's.
If u have a crapy burner....

[speedy4500]

Speaking of sound quality, I am interesting in knowing what bit-rate people like their mp3s. I like mine at a minimum of 192, because anything below that and I start noticing differences in sound quality. I ask this because often my "friends" will make mp3s at like 128 or 64 and they seem oblivious to the fact that the sound is simply horrendous.

[MoPMatrix]

I like 192 also..

[WyrmMaster]

variable, high quality :)

[Emericana]

thx for the info. and i was being serious about it being my friend who told me that. We had a big debate about it yesterday hehe. I always record my stuff at 192 but unfortunatly, most of the stuff on morpheus is 128 or below.

[Yodums]

I'm using 128... Barely notice a difference from 192.

[Hardass]

I use 128 and nothing lower.

[LJ5L]

The speed does matter, and there is a perfectly simple explanation for it. It matters for the readability of the disk, not sound quality, in most cases.

Ok here we go: a laser has certain power, early version of burners didn't vary power of the laser, so they burned at same power at 1x and 4x, this is when this 'burning slower is better' started. Newer drives have variable power, but they still make the best 'impression' on the disc at lower speeds. And the 'deeper the impression' the more chance it will play in old CD players or when scratched up.

By the way, Mopheus by no means has 128 and below files, Morpheus just doesn't let 128+ files to show up in searches. There is a registry hack that removes this limiter and lets you see an option to search for only 128 and up, or 160 and up, or 192 and up, etc...

[XprincoX]

yes the burn speed does not matter.. however the type of disk you use may matter. Some cdr's maybe unreadable in some cdplayers and may even skip. Thats why the sell different cdr's just for audio cds. Tho usually i'm not that meticulous with my audio cds... :D

[Emericana]

Wow i never knew that about morpheus. i have been using audio galaxy to try to get all of the high quality mp3's but that doesnt work as well. Can you PLEASE give me more info on this reg hack, how to use it, and where to download it from? thanks!

[LJ5L]

It's easy: find "LimitBitrate" value in your registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Morpheus
) and set it to 0.

Xprincox, audio CDs are not 'somehow' better than data cds, they are the same, except audio grade CDs come with licensing scheme which is quiet silly if you read about it.

[Escuchamezz]

Use Limewire, most of my songs are 320, the 128 mp3s sound like tape next to them. Morpheus is for 12 year old kids that's why only 128 quality songs are shown

oh yeah back to the question if you have a decent cd-writer (i.e. Plextor or Liteon or Ricoh or Yamaha) you won't have any problems burning music and the quality will always be good, especially with the new plextor technology which will be useful for the higher writing speed in their 40x recorder