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There's a discussion on our local forum that Nero 5.5 makes less quality recordings than for instance WinOnCD 5 Power Edition.

Nero's CD Quality Check reports lots of errors for SmartBuy media, burnt with Teac CD-W540E in Nero. The same data, recorded at the same speed in WinOnCD, seem to be of greater quality.

Any thoughts?

How's CloneCD burn quality ?

How's the quality on Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum?

Han wrote:There's a discussion on our local forum that Nero 5.5 makes less quality recordings than for instance WinOnCD 5 Power Edition.

Nero's CD Quality Check reports lots of errors for SmartBuy media, burnt with Teac CD-W540E in Nero. The same data, recorded at the same speed in WinOnCD, seem to be of greater quality.

Any thoughts?

Is the one burned on Win On CD using the SmartBuy media?

Yes.

Interesting thread, did you come to any conclusions or have any test data Han?

Not yet. Hopefully the 'local guy' who purchased a new Teac 40x and visits CDRLabs' forum quite often, will post his observations.

I can only check my collection of discs, but since I mostly burn on Mitsui media at 8x, there shouldn't be any errors...

Han wrote:Not yet. Hopefully the 'local guy' who purchased a new Teac 40x and visits CDRLabs' forum quite often, will post his observations.

You talkin' about me?

Emm, by 'local' I mean from my country...

Ah ok!

Hello, 'local guy' here (I hope Han means me - imagine my embarrassment if he is not.... ).

Well, it's all true. I bought a 25 pack of 32x SmarBuy media. Teac writes them at 24x max (32x if Speed Mode is enabled in Tuning Tool).

At first I burned about five of them in Nero (at 16x). The results were horrible. They WERE readable, but that's about it. Teac read them funny - it read about a half of a cd ok, then slowed down to eight, then back again, down again and so on (Nero CD Speed).
It was even worse on Toshiba SD-M1612. Some cds were read at only 8x.
They were also full of errors (Nero CD Speed - cd quality check).
I burnt one at only 8x (in Nero), but there were still errors - although less than at 16x.
(Nero settings were: Mode 1, Disc at Once)

Han suggested, that I should try WinOnCD 5 PE. So I burnt two SmartBuys (of the same pack) with the same data as previous ones (divx movie) at 16x - and there were no errors (cd quality check)! Toshiba read one a little slower, while Teac read both of them perfectly.
I should note, that I had ''Cache all data'' checked, although I don't see how that could be important.

But as I said on our local forum: it could be just coincidence.

Hi TheJack and welcome to the forum as active participator.

TheJack wrote:But as I said on our local forum: it could be just coincidence.

I doubt this is just coincidence. I've been using WinOnCD ever since my friend and I bought our first burner and we have virtually zero problems with media.

Well, I guess the debate died...

And I couldn't post anything, since I was without my computer for a week.

Well no one was really questioning it; I don't believe hearsay unless people back it up with numbers, not just by saying " Well I've done this for X amount of time and it has always worked like this. " I'm not questioning Han's knowledge, but it's my outtake on things.

I would provide more info if I could, but my Teac 8x isn't exactly the appropriate latest-high-speed device to test media with...

No kidding I'm still using a 16x scsi sanyo. All these different media headaches just aren't worth it! ... heh