is this plextor cd burner good?

[BubbaFreaktree2]

hello everyone,

i saw a plextor cd burner at newegg.com. the model number is PX-W5224TA-BPS.

is this a good burner?

[lpdeluxe]

Get a Plextor Plexwriter Premium. I got mine new for $82. Anything else is second best. It comes with error-checking software so you can make sure your CDs will play anywhere.

[xpine73]

Plextor is definitely good

[dawboxpro]

For 6 Years I have used only Plextor and Lite-On CDRW's. I have had only two to three plextors go bad and about the same for Lite-On...

You can get a Lite on for less than the plextor... I have never noticed a difference. The plextor is better only in software and DAE Digital Audio Extraction. Although I prefer nero over EZ-CD Roxio stuff...

My 2 cents

[macouno]

Most cd burners are fine.

just remember that alignment of bits on an audio cd is more important than on a data cd.

This means that burning at a higher speed is risky (usually 4x or 8x is safe).

Actually burning at 1x speed would be best audio wise, but since newer high speed cd writers have hotter lasers that could damage the cd surface at slow speeds... well... somewhere in the middle is a good bet ;)

I have had 1 plextor die on me (hard quick and dirty)... I'm using liteon burners now (2 cdrws and 1 dvdrw) and they've been running for ehm... over 2 years (not the dvdrw, only bought that 6 months ago)... flawlessly. I had a creative cd reader once and it made so much noise it was unusable... so I wouldn't buy a writer by them.

[dawboxpro]

That is funny bro because I have used Lite-Ons as well with little or no problems ever and the software is way better...

I agree with your above specs and advice on burning slower, but frankly I still burn at high speed without ever a problem and the audio sounds fine every time. I use CD Architect and it tells me the cd's is Red Book and successful. When I burn a master to make copies of I may burn it slower, but one offs from CD-Architect are at full blast because usually it is an hour before a gig and I have 20 to go!!!

I have no attention span for 1x bro we all had to wait through that crap in 1997. I used to sit and watch my hair turn gray from one cd burn (LOL)

Most CD Burners are all made my mitsumi the same company...For the cash get a LiteOn DVDRW/CDRW/DCD combo for like $90

[macouno]

Hehe agreed. I still remember when I made an extra buck copying cd's at 1x on "audio recordables" for people selling them for like $10.- a piece... those were the days...

cd architect is a great app for anyone who wants to publish their cds.... I usually burn in Nero for myself or for doing a quick copy and that works fine as well.

And I know... I do the quicker burns too (never over 16x though)... but though they usually do fine... I have had quite a nr of cds that simply won't play in older and or crappier cd players. Which never happens at 4x.

[BubbaFreaktree2]

i burn audio and data all day long at 24x and never have a problem. I think i have about one failure per 100.