My Music CD's are nearing 20 years old. I need a reliable CD-ROM drive that will reliably read these CD's without error. I hate copying a CD's tracks to hard drive and having to listen to an hour's worth of music to find that track 19 had a few "drop outs". I had a Mitsumi FX4830 CD-ROM in a previous system which unfortunately died of massive power supply burns. I never had any problems reading music with that drive. In fact I didn't know there would be errors in the recorded wave files until I got a new system with a Samsung SC-148A CD-ROM drive. That's when I discovered that not all optical drives are created equal. The HP DVD Writer 640b was better at reading a music CD I used as a "Test Bed" but it too would record a bum track or two. I have been getting fairly good results from an IOmega CDRW 6402EXT-B (External USB). Any suggestions, experiences ........?
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Need suggestions for a good CD-ROM drive
- Thread starter ylustrata
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I think he was maybe just saying that the cd reader part of the burner wasnt so good.
I would go with rclarke250 on the plextor, but i like samsungs and matsui too. There are actually only a few mfgrs anyway, many are just re-branded with another companies name on them. I can tell you what i would avoid,i would avoid the ones that just say 42x, 50x, like that, also i avoid creative cdroms, they, in my opinion, are junk. Avoid off-brand brand names you dont know well.
Phillips is a good name too, but plextor is still the best.
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I would go with rclarke250 on the plextor, but i like samsungs and matsui too. There are actually only a few mfgrs anyway, many are just re-branded with another companies name on them. I can tell you what i would avoid,i would avoid the ones that just say 42x, 50x, like that, also i avoid creative cdroms, they, in my opinion, are junk. Avoid off-brand brand names you dont know well.
Phillips is a good name too, but plextor is still the best.
Good advice + great people = tek-tips
rclarke250
Technical User
I also like, Mitsumi,Lite-on...I don't care for Goldstar, but that is a just me from having to fix too many of their crappy VCR's. 
lol !! on that Goldstar VCR thingie of yours rclarke .. those are realy junk stuff
isn't Goldstar nowdays "called" LG?
ylustrata
I've never experienced problems with CD reading or grabbing to HD and then playing from there.. Just don't go for the low-end ones and you'll do fine ..
personaly, I don't like Samsung drives.. as I've seen many problems with them, but haven't tried newer ones.
I would suggest you to grab your CD's to HD as MP3 with VBR or fix 192 kbps as this is fine enough for reproducing anything.. (if you must, then get a good encoder and go with higher kbps, more MB's but little more quality)
and 20yrs old CD's are not as relyable stuff.. this way you'll have it on two places..
greets,
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isn't Goldstar nowdays "called" LG?
ylustrata
I've never experienced problems with CD reading or grabbing to HD and then playing from there.. Just don't go for the low-end ones and you'll do fine ..
personaly, I don't like Samsung drives.. as I've seen many problems with them, but haven't tried newer ones.
I would suggest you to grab your CD's to HD as MP3 with VBR or fix 192 kbps as this is fine enough for reproducing anything.. (if you must, then get a good encoder and go with higher kbps, more MB's but little more quality)
and 20yrs old CD's are not as relyable stuff.. this way you'll have it on two places..
greets,
Marko 9A6NCM
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I keep hearing the names, LiteOn and BenQ for optical Drives but I don't know which commercial brands use those. Someone on another forum suggested another name: Asus. The word seems to be that there are just 4 or so real manufacturers.
Someone also suggested going with DVD-ROM/RW because the optics are more accurate. I did a Nero Speed Test - Scan my test muscic CD - the Sony DVD RW DW-D22A slowed to a crawl at some places (less than 1X speed) - I gave up before scanning the whole disk.
I make compilation music CD's so I don't use MP3 as an intermediate step. I make WAV files from the CD's and burn these to an Audio CD.
Thanks for the replies. Please keep them coming. I am sure I am not the only one looking for a reliable CD-ROM to read music. (As I said before I didn't have any problems reading music CD's with the Mitsumi but the Samsung opened my eyes.)
Someone also suggested going with DVD-ROM/RW because the optics are more accurate. I did a Nero Speed Test - Scan my test muscic CD - the Sony DVD RW DW-D22A slowed to a crawl at some places (less than 1X speed) - I gave up before scanning the whole disk.
I make compilation music CD's so I don't use MP3 as an intermediate step. I make WAV files from the CD's and burn these to an Audio CD.
Thanks for the replies. Please keep them coming. I am sure I am not the only one looking for a reliable CD-ROM to read music. (As I said before I didn't have any problems reading music CD's with the Mitsumi but the Samsung opened my eyes.)
rclarke250
Technical User
Yep, they bought zenith, and now go by the name LG (lucky goldstar) not sure who was lucky though. Manu's that I know are Mitsumi,NEC,Hitachi-LG,Lite-on,Pioneer,Phillips,Plextor...Sometimes,JVC,and Sony. although both of those sometimes use others and rebrand...there are more, but it is just like in all other electronics, 10-15 manu's. everyone else just rebrands...btw. Samsung makes there own. As for Benq...ok, used to be Acer. Lite-on sells under their own name.Best buy carries them, as does circuit city. And they have some of the best prices on the net at most vendors.
Manu's that I know are Mitsumi,NEC,Hitachi-LG,Lite-on,Pioneer,Phillips,Plextor...Sometimes,JVC,and Sony. although both of those sometimes use others and rebrand...there are more, but it is just like in all other electronics, 10-15 manu's. everyone else just rebrands...btw. Samsung makes there own. As for Benq...ok, used to be Acer. Lite-on sells under their own name.Best buy carries them, as does circuit city. And they have some of the best prices on the net at most vendors.- Status
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