[Richard Crowley]

"Dave Platt" wrote ...
Richard Crowley wrote:
The consenus seems to be that the modern Plextor is not in the same
league as the older models from that company. More like the Lite-Ons.
If good 4x burners are out of production, can someone suggest a few
modern alternative burners from their own experience that will burn
audio CDs without "static" or "motorboating" artifacts on heavily
modulated passages? It should have a SATA interface if possible.

It doesn't seem possible that the disc burner drive can possibly have
anything to do with audio artifacts (content-dependent or otherwise).
I would seriously discount the source of that information.

A bad burn can result in the sort of "static" and "motorboating", if
it's bad enough that the CD player's C1/C2 Reed-Solomon error
correction logic cannot recover the original burned data accurately.

Those are artifacts from the *playback device* resulting from poor
data recovery (whether from a badly burned disk or whatever.)
The burner drive may be doing a very poor job of recording the
ones and zeroes, but it is NOT creating "audio artifacts". This is
the kind of "fuzzy thinking" that is misleading and causes people
to take irrelevant tangents in the pursuit of solutions.

One could make the argument that the playback device should
simply reject a disc with that many errors vs continuously muting
and unmuting like that.