I agree with the above posts. I am the owner of a media duplication company; and we duplicate CDs, CD-ROMs, and DVDs. Based upon my 13+ years in the commercial audio and video business I think I can say with some certainty that if you want to duplicate a CD and get decent results it has to be done at 1X or 2X speeds.
Not only do higher duplication speeds create jitter and timing errors; but resulting discs usually sounds flat and lacking in dynamics. I recently duplicated over 200 CD-Rs that each had a different radio commercial on them. They were entries in a festival for Radio & TV Commercial producers. At least 10% of the entries were unplayable. In doing some follow-up, I called the producers and almost every single CD-R that would not play in the five CD players in our studios was "burned" on a computer at high speed.
So take a word of advice - and stick to 1X or 2X CD duplication if you want to get some decent results. Happy listening.
Not only do higher duplication speeds create jitter and timing errors; but resulting discs usually sounds flat and lacking in dynamics. I recently duplicated over 200 CD-Rs that each had a different radio commercial on them. They were entries in a festival for Radio & TV Commercial producers. At least 10% of the entries were unplayable. In doing some follow-up, I called the producers and almost every single CD-R that would not play in the five CD players in our studios was "burned" on a computer at high speed.
So take a word of advice - and stick to 1X or 2X CD duplication if you want to get some decent results. Happy listening.