what we do..
We are currently burning at 16x using the Plextor 16 burner and do have a few glitches on the cds but oh well. Also we use the cheapest no name media we can find 100 cd spindals for 20 bucks from Circut City after rebate. 24x media. Can't complain, we are burning about 1000 CDG disks but for our own use at home. Just ordered the new plextor 40x burner and will have it on Mondy, going to try to read from the plaextor 16 and burn to the new plextor 40 for duping and see how it works will let everyone know.
We us a pretty beefy computer, Twin 1600 Athlons with a gig of ram and twin 7200 80 gig drives runing on Raid 0 (Striping) so the system does not even burp at the 16x speed. $0 should be no problem.
Should be interesting to see how we do.
BTW we love the MTU software. A friend of ours uses a program called CD Clone and makes a bit master to harddrive. It works very well also for duplicating disks but of course it can not pull out single tracks but the dups are the ones we use to make our dups, they are that good.
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