I own and operate a professional mastering studio, and find the
Plextor 8/20 to be one of the best CD-R drives made. It gives me
flawless masters with absolutely no E22 or E32 errors at 2X. I would
NEVER burn a master set for duplication faster than 2X, but for one
offs or refs, 8X is a big time saver.

By the way I have NEVER EVER been able to burn a disc at 1X with CD
Architect (all builds including the latest) with either the Plextor or
Panasonic CW-7502B (all versions of firmware)and every brand of media
including the BEST OF ALL AND ALWAYS RECOMMENDED, TAIYO YUDEN (various
lots). At 1X it will allways return error messages after writing the
TOC.

I have spent ENDLESS hours on the phone with Sonic Foundry tech
support, have emailed them the exact error codes, had them forward
them to Panasonic and the only response I ever got was that "I haven't
heard back from Panasonic". Sonic Foundry had absoulutely no answers
for me on this matter, but 2X with Taiyo Yuden (Cyanine type 1) media
seems to be the most stable writing speed according to many experts
anyway. So it's not THAT big of a deal but perplexing none the less.

In short the PLex 8/20 is a killer drive when used with Taiyo Yuden
media.

Paul Gedge wrote:
>>There seems to be two opinions as to what the best speed
>>is to burn audio disk. One common opinion is that 1x
>>recording is the only way to write for a flawless disk. The
>>other is that the write speed does not make a difference.
>>
>>Has anyone seen any articles, white papers, or
>>documentation on this issues?
>>
>>What has been your experience with writing audio disks at 4x
>>and 8x?
>>
>>Has anyone had any experience writing disks at 8x on
>>Plextor's PLEXWRITER 8/2/20 drive?
>>
>>best regards,
>>paul