I have a Sony 8 x burner in my system and it has always worked fine..my
audio cd's play in all my players with no problems. I just added a second
burner, another Sony (CRX225A) which is 52 v 24 x 52. The fastest media I
could find was Sony rated at 42x (or 48x...I can't remember which). About 1
cd in 3 comes out with an error. It seems to record fine, and the first 20
cuts play fine, but towards the end of the side the player just locks up and
gives an error message. This happens at the identical point on any player,
including either of my burners.

I just went back and redid one of them at 12x and it recorded fine (on older
24 x media). I had no luck slowing down the burn to 40 or 16 however. I have
applied the XP patch and Easy CD Creator patches and updates. I don't know
where else to look.

Jay
"SPS22" wrote in message
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"Dave Cohen" wrote in message
ws.com...
Another suggestion, take the most problematic media you have and visit a
Best Buy or similar, you shouldn't have a problem finding running units
on
which you can test, I doubt salespeople would object. Lie a little, tell
them you're looking to purchase and want to be sure etc. You might even
be
telling the truth depending on what you find.
Dave Cohen

I took back the boom box. I took bunch of offending CD-R's and played
on a variety of boomboxes. They played fine on all of them. This
means that this model of JVC was screwed up, or maybe just this piece.
Anyways, I got a philipps boombox. Sound is as good as boomboxes go.
It plays CD-R's well. But the other suggestions from the group were
helpful and I am going to use them as I go along.

Thanks.
-Surinder