When dealing with audio, what you are experiencing is normal. Audio copies
work more by good luck than good management and media compatibility can be
crucial with fussy hardware. If it works at 12x then record at 12X. To get a
faster speed, you will have to wait until media technology catches up with
the hardware - and even then there will be an optimum speed for a given
writer/medium combination.

--

Graham Mayor



Jay wrote:
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
om...
"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