[Richard Crowley]

"Mr.T" wrote ...
"Richard Crowley" wrote ...
If the burnt disk contains unrecoverable read errors,
a standard CD player may very well produce audio
artefacts of some kind.

So they are artifacts from the *playback device*.

Yep, that's what I said!
But the problem only occurs because of read errors on the disk. The whole
idea is to make good disks so it doesn't occur. A good burner and good
disks
will achieve that.

It doesn't take "a good burner and good disks" to make recordings
above that very low level of quality. Practically any but the most
lousy drive and the very lowest-grade discs will produce recordings
free of those kind of playback artifacts.

If people are experiencing those kind of problems, then they are
already at the lowest edge of minimal functionality. Time to buy
decent discs, etc. If even RedBook playback ECC can't recover
the lousy recordings then they have absolutely ZERO chance of
burning any kind of readable DATA disc and something is
dramatically wrong with either the burner drive or the discs.

Remember that if you buy commodity discs with a "name brand"
of a company who merely OEMs discs from the cheapest source
of the month, you have no idea what you are getting from month
to month. You could be getting premium Taiyo-Yuden discs one
month and junk the next month with the same "name brand" on
them.

Disc burners can not burn AUDIO artifacts. But they may burn
such lousy DIGITAL data that they cause readers to flounder.
My bet would be that people who are having these kinds of
problems are using trash discs.