Hello guys. I've recently got a Philips CD350 and started playing with it. My initial idea was to mod it and see how good it can get, since i've seen quite a lot of projects that involve mods to that player. Most people think it sounds pretty nice.
But as I was listening to some of my CDs, i decided to try to play some of the CDs i've burnt myself (from FLACs mostly). I was surprised to find out, that it does not want to play almost ANY of these. Initially I thought it was due to the low quality of the CDs themselves, but I tried with quite a lot of different makes, including some Taiyo Yuden ones, with the same result. I compiled a list of the ones I tried so far, uploading the picture..
The ones that have red tick do get played, but it does not read them very well (sounds like it lags, or skips and songs closer to the end of the CD get worse). I am using Lite-on iHAS 24B burner; most modern CDs do not allow write speeds lower than x16, only one allowed me to go to x8. I thought that might be part of the problem.
I also considered the optics / mechanism could be somehow to blame, but every "original" CD i own is getting played without any problems whatsoever.
I'd appreciate some insight on the matter.
Thanks in advance
But as I was listening to some of my CDs, i decided to try to play some of the CDs i've burnt myself (from FLACs mostly). I was surprised to find out, that it does not want to play almost ANY of these. Initially I thought it was due to the low quality of the CDs themselves, but I tried with quite a lot of different makes, including some Taiyo Yuden ones, with the same result. I compiled a list of the ones I tried so far, uploading the picture..
The ones that have red tick do get played, but it does not read them very well (sounds like it lags, or skips and songs closer to the end of the CD get worse). I am using Lite-on iHAS 24B burner; most modern CDs do not allow write speeds lower than x16, only one allowed me to go to x8. I thought that might be part of the problem.
I also considered the optics / mechanism could be somehow to blame, but every "original" CD i own is getting played without any problems whatsoever.
I'd appreciate some insight on the matter.
Thanks in advance
I can confirm, I had an early Philips player that would not play any CDroms or CDR. Even my mid 1990s Lambda Drive frequently refused to play CDs I burned on burners at 8X.. Nothing wrong with your CD350, it just was not designed to play these disks, things like contrast ratio, opacity, etc., are significantly different with burned disks as opposed to commercial disks which are stamped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_manufacturing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_manufacturing
Note that for "newer" burners (i.e. any burner that can burn at >32x for CD-R) you can actually get worse burn quality when burning at lower speeds than at higher ones.
With DVD burners and newer, the burn strategies of each individual CD-R / DVD-R model is stored in the firmware. It is this that limits how fast and slow it will allow you to burn a particular disc.
From experience, the best burn results are achieved at the media's rated speed or one step lower.
With DVD burners and newer, the burn strategies of each individual CD-R / DVD-R model is stored in the firmware. It is this that limits how fast and slow it will allow you to burn a particular disc.
From experience, the best burn results are achieved at the media's rated speed or one step lower.
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