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Originally posted by Orbital32 i burn as fast as my writer can, 48X, but since i only do 1 track per CD, the inner portion burns around 24X. I NEVER had a problem with CD skipping. Especially if you have burn-proof or what ever your writer calls it, you really should have no problem.

Higher speeds equals higher chances of error with the laser moving around to different sectors of the blank media.

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Originally posted by mzvirbulis guys what do recommend in transcoding software? like mp3 > wav i use belight

If you want to go from wav to mp3 I recommend Lame with V0 settings.

Read here on mp3 encoding

dbpoweramp is also fairly decent but you have to pay for it.

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Originally posted by djkoolaide Man, CD-R's are so cheap these days. Just the other day I picked up a 100pk for $9.99 at Best Buy.

I would be doubtful of the quality of cds that cheap

Get the CD Speed software here ( it's free ) http://www.cdspeed2000.com/

and test your blank media.

They are Dynex discs, which are actually TDK discs with a "Dynex" logo on them.

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Originally posted by JuB jUb I used Sony CD's until last week I burnt 13 CD's i needed for a gig only to find an hour beforehand that all the CD's wouldn't play in my CDJ1000 or CDJ800. A faulty batch. Now its TDK all the way...

Wait wait wait...so CDJ1000s don't play Sony CDs?

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Originally posted by djkoolaide They are Dynex discs, which are actually TDK discs with a "Dynex" logo on them.

is that what you were told or is that what you tested yourself and got out of it?

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Originally posted by Ministerio Wait wait wait...so CDJ1000s don't play Sony CDs?

You have to realize that some Sony cds are not always manufactured by them.

Manufacturers of cds can change from one batch to another and quality can vary as well!

You may buy a Sony batch one day made by X and a month later you buy some again and they're made by Y.


There are variations between purchased batches as well as inside the same batches as well.

I've heard from quite a few pretty reliable sources that most CD-Rs come out of the same handful of factories and get split into batches - the CDs aimed for the more expensive brands (TDK, Sony etc) have more out of each batch tested than the cheaper ones... that's the only difference between them.

On the "what speed to burn" front, 8x speed tends to do the job fine. As Nem says, the slower you burn, the deeper the pits are so the less likely you are to get a read error... CD players can recover no problem from a few read errors a second, they just re-read that bit and get on with it. The problem comes when it fails to read the same section correctly several times and it ends up skipping.

Even if CDs burnt at 48x speed work fine for you at home on your new CDJ200s etc, you've got to remember that older CD decks have got less advanced error recovery systems, plus the effect of 5 years' wear & tear and the however many cubic feet of smoke machine smoke, cigarette smoke & ash, etc that have been through club installations CD players and you'll find that CDs are more likely to skip when you're playing out - exactly when you don't want them to.

anything less than 8x is fine imo though my burner is an old combo writer so it wont go any fast than 4x anyway

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Originally posted by Ministerio Wait wait wait...so CDJ1000s don't play Sony CDs?

No no they do, it was just a dodgy batch that i got. In the past they have always worked fine.

Also, never ever buy 'Shintaro' CD's, they are shit.

Is there a very noticeable difference with wav as opposed to mp3? Any mp3/wav converters that you guys use that are easy to use?

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