CD Audio burning

[SaSi]

I am not sure where to post this issue, really, so I picked up Audio. It's a rather long post but I promise you, it's worth reading if you are into Audio CD burning.

Recording CD audio in the past was simple and always succesful. Using 16x branded media on 8x rated CDRecorder always produced good results.

I am now recording audio compilations for the car stereo and I tend to want to finish quickly. Also, the car stereo doesn't play back CDRWs so I use low cost branded CDrs that I won't use for data archiving.

Using 48x rated "Intenso" media on my 40x rated DVDRW produced a Jazz music Audio CD that plays fine for the first 5-6 tracks then audio seems to have a jitter echo on drums and piano notes with high attack rates. The jitter appears to increase in volume as tracks go on and track 11 is bearly bearable.

The solution is simple - record at a lower speed - and it works fine. Also, recording again on a 40x TDK CD produced perfect results.

But I investigated further.

I played the same Audio CD on several players, including my PC's DVDROM and DVDRW and had the same jitter problem.

I then ripped the CD to HD using Easy CD-DA Extractor, just to visually see the jitter with an audio editor.

Here's the big surprise: The ripped audio is clean. No jitter and no distortion. The problem disappeared. Is it the audio ripping s/w that corrected the problem or is it the way CD ripping works that removed the jitter?

Is that normal? Has anyone had similar experiences?

PS. The Audio CD was recorded on my new Samsung TS-H552B DVDRW. After burning 8-10 CDs, the CD recording functionality died. It could not recognise blank CD-Rs. Took the unit back to the store and they replaced it on the spot. I am wondering if this is a limitation of the recorder or just bad media.

[zod5000]

I don't entirely understand what your asking, but you should realize that computer drives usually have the ability to read discs much better then say dvd players, car stereos, home theatre cd players etc.

I don't know why, but its been like this for a while. There will be exceptions, but I think on the most part it holds. I've had many a scratched cd (original cd) that can no long play flawlessly in my car. I've gone back and ripped it to my computer, and reburned it onto a new cdr and the recordings been fine.

You're car stereo might be picky or it might be really bad media. My old kenwood deck (made in 1998) was pretty picky with what it would play. It would play some cheap media but not other cheap media. It would play some expensive media but not other expensive media.

My new Pioneer deck is alot better, but I'd still say my computer drives can do a better job reading discs then the car stereo.