Microstudio CDG'S

[SteveWalker]

Hi George,

Good to be back here again. Yeah, the audio quality should be identical supposing there are no data errors introduced. I read a post that claims "audio quality" is better at different speeds, well that may be true when speaking of analog tape recorders and processing in the analog domain but this is ALL digital data (1's and 0's). Audio quality in the digital domain does not change but you can introduce data errors that will show up as pops and noises because the bits reversed the polarity or whatever the case may be. You also can see the data errors in the lyrics screen which may be appear to be missing letters or the like. Using higher speeds such as 24x instead of say 2x is asking the CD drive to read the data 12 times faster. To do this the CD drives spins faster giving the lasar much shorter times to read what's on the CD. It's like watching the INDY cars on the straight-away in 1960 versus watching them today at 220 mph. It's more reliable to read the CD at lower speeds every time but if you can use the highest speed of the drive without problems why not do it.

Steve