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Just wondering, does burning at a faster speed affect the copy in any way? I have heard that if you try to burn a music CD at too high a speed, it won't work well in a normal CD player. Also, would that apply to data CDs too? Thanks!

I have heard that before and to tell ya the truth i burn all of mine at max speed and all the audio cd's play fine in everything... my 24x burner was dying on me and i was having problems with a few cd's i had burned with it... but the burner was going out so i really don't think it was cause of the burning speed though... since then i've got a 48x burner and have had no problems with burning full audio cd's with it...

it isnt suposed to effect it in anyway.

Greg

On some of the older car CD units they wouldn't work rite if burned at a high speed. I had one that wouldn't work at anything burned over 8x.

That's what I heard d_b. Do you know how old of units that is, since the main thing I basically do is burn CDs for my car?

Just burn a copy and test it out... most decks 3-4 years old play burned cd's of any speed just fine... deck in my car is 5 years old and a cheap blaupunkt and it plays everything i've thrown at it.

Nero as will a few other types of software will verify the writes.It takes a little longer but if you have the option and your not in any hurry try it,I use write verify for ISO's and it works reguardless of the speed.
Happy Hollidays,
Bill