What is the best brand CD for recording/ burning that works best in Corvette Delco 12 disc car CD changer. Any experiences are appreciated.

 

I have found that if you burn at 2x or slower your CD's will be much better quality for the stock changer. :D

 

I have used Sony, Maxell, Fuji and TDK CDR Audio disks in the stock changer with perfect results. Burning at lower speeds will also improve results.

 

Memorex or TDK, CD-R (music) work good for me...

I've also heard that slower recording speeds have better quality, although I've never really noticed the difference.

 

I've been using Fuji Film CR-R media... burn at 12x absolutely NO difference in audio quality when burning at slower data rates!!! (unless your burner is a coaster maker???) I have my changer FULL of homemade compilation CD's that's just under 200 of my fav tunes... put it in the random play mode and it's better than any radio station!!! I have a 6 disk Alpine changer in The Little Yellow Airplane so I can groove there too!

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[Modified by XmentalPilot, 5:41 PM 9/13/2001]

 

I have 3 CD burners on diff. computers and they are really CD brand specific.

some brands work some don't, when I find a brand that works I make notes for that burner.

but weird things is...one burner stopped writting to a brand 35 cd's into a 50 pak.

I think someone screwed up when they changed from 640k to 700k

 

I use Memorex 700MB/80 minute CDRs. I've burnt a ton of them and they work great. One thing about the stock player- it can only reliably handle songs that are up to 19:59 in length. So if you burn a whole album that is say, 60 minutes long as one song, you'll run into issues if you try to "start" playing after the 19:59 point (ie, insert cd, listen to 40 minutes, then turn off car, turn on car--- cd might just eject because you're trying to start at 40:01 but it only counts to 19:59).

Other than that, works great. Wish the damn thing could play native MP3 files- could store SO much more music on each disk.

Regarding the burning speed.... THIS IS DIGITAL. Slower burn speed doesn't improve quality. I burn all at 8x (fastest my "old" HP burner can handle). The disks that result are bit-for-bit identical to the same image burned at 2x. Now if you have a coastermaker as the dude above said, well, that is a different matter. So basically, if you have an old computer, burn at 2x. But if you have a new computer with lots of memory, burn as fast as the CDR and CD-burner can handle. BTW, unless you have a multiprocessor machine or a CD-burner with a huge cache, it is best to leave your system alone during the burning process or you may very-well make a coaster

Good luck,
Justin


[Modified by ambitin, 9:53 PM 9/13/2001]

 

I only use 74 min cd's for audio cds. I found that the 80 min ones don't work in the cd player. My HP cd burner doesn't like the 80 minute ones. guess program is old. You have to close out the cd so the index is written to it for it to work in the cd player.

 

Personally I use Memorex and Sony. Not a problem yet in my changer....

 

98 coupe, in-dash CD player, Verbatim blue Valu-Life CD-R 16X 700MB/80 Min, Plextor 16X burner, Von Feurio Audio CD burning software. Burner and software have automatic power calibration and will burn 8x disks at 16X no problem. All disks 74 or 80 minute play perfectly in the Vette.

Are we stretching this as a technical performance issue? Oh well. It's technical and its about performance.

 

Facts:
Brands don't really matter....its not a CD-R brand issue

Colors of the CD-R writing area does matter. Some CD Players and Changers have trouble reading off of certain colors. Many cases of this for whatever reason. I have the in-dash CD...so its not relavent, but I use blue back ones.

So just try a different color....and you are closing your cds right?

 

Does anyone have an MP3 player installed?
What brand?
How and where did you install?