alright, I'll be the first to wave the B.S. flag on this myth.

....until proven otherwise of course.

 

I thought you were buying the 7909 because of the great great sound quaility of one of the best Cd players ever made......why would you use cdr's??????

 

Cheap quality CDr's don't last as long, but the SQ from the original to copied equal to my ears as long as the speed is burnt correctly.

Maxel discs are my #1 choice.

 

Maxell black FTW

 

uuhmmmmmmmmm

 

ya Im using Maxell.

 

Its always been my understanding that the quality of the dye and quality of the stressed polycarbonate on the disc itself were larger factors than burn speed.

Back in the prehistoric days computers could not feed the data fast enough, the drives had minscule buffers, etc, which made a lot of coasters happen.

 

 

I bought the 1st gen Matsushita(panasonic) CD-R 1x 2x 4x and never I mean never had a coaster until newer discs came avail.
The drive eventually died with about 5000+ discs under it's belt. Paid $2xx for is.
I'm a firm believer of not running any secondary tasks when burning. In the old days speed was a luxury so I had to rely on less processes in the BG with stable ram and good non defraged hard drives.

Presently - I'm on a Mac Book Pro and haven't looked back.

 

100% with you. I forget what I paid for the first 4X but man, it was something else at the time!

Then the discs started getting cheap and i still remember coming to the realization that the burner "did not like" certain brands.

I think some of the very early versions of NERO had a feature that would shut down background tasks even.

With todays FSB / backplane speeds, RAM speed, SATA drives, etc, I guess thats almost laughable now, but at one time, if you even had a screensaver come on, poof, coaster time.