Plextools the 800MB has detected problems and an official maximum (be) playing time of 90: 29.74 set. I needed something more for audio CDs, I've tried, how much you can get out through overburning (Brenner: Plextor Plexwriter Premium-U USB).
In a very optimistic first try with good 94 minutes of material joined by nearly 92:48 on a fatal internal error, the first blank was burned.
Although a second attempt with 92:33 seemed smooth move, the CD luck and he tried to 92:21 in the CD player. Error-scans with Plextools remained at 92:21 and hang there showed massive uncorrectable errors (CU).
All good things come in threes: Another attempt consequently with 92:20 has worked, although two to counter check relied on CD players older provenience Skips to beginning in the last almost two minutes Title largely refuse (front-and "coils "in this area goes smoothly). But they do play the CD by the end. Until 92:00, exactly 92 minutes, you should be in the green area, at least as regards the blanks (burner and software are another matter). That's about the season that I need, so I'm initially happy times.
For all firing experiments I have, however, the speed regulated down to 8x. A minimum burning speed is for blanks not specified. A very first firing test (not included above) with far greater speed had failed at the bottleneck USB2 interface for which the blank nothing can.
At the first C1 / C2 / CU-error test with the burned CD in Plextools significantly increasing C1 error the 90th minute showed toward (and beyond). Also a few C2 errors, but overall nothing serious. No CU error.
EAC and Plextools read the files from two different drives properly again (where EAC took quite a long time). However, the last pass (reading with Plextools from Plexwriter) the program reported a sudden failure, which by default (like many others Ripper also) not corrected. Yet times C1 / C2 / CU-error test showed suddenly a very considerable number of C2 and CU errors. This should not happen under any circumstances. How could deteriorate within an hour, and after a couple of times playing on a couple of CD players and CD drives so, is beyond me. The most serious errors were indeed outside the "official" range, but even before the 90-minute mark, the errors were not negligible. Although Plextools could correct all errors in a further reading passage in tandem with the Plextor burner, but that should not apply to any software, and especially (not many will burn the CDs first and then re-import into the computer) for any player. With age, the CD, the error should be more numerous and audible. In my case it is not important, but there is of me but still significantly penalized.
Unfortunately, the market situation is anything but rosy at 800s, except these Verbatim I only no-name goods found in shops no 800s. But these blanks here should, if at all, be only slightly better than no-names.
Digression: Instead of firing over from 90's I would have of course the same can take 99er blanks or possible with Plextor burners "GigaRec" function (1.2 to 1.4 times as dense "load up" a CD-R), but I am hoping by the described procedure better compatibility my 92-minute CDs. At 99ern one also finds virtually only no-name products and that only a few.
Incidentally, the term "Extra Protection" appeared (Layer) in my pack only tiny on the inside of the inserted cover sheet, while 700 packages (which come from Taiwan) still proudly perform outside.
Result: Two points are deducted (with a tendency to "down" for the assessment) because of the number of errors, and I fast "descent" in two measurements within 1 hour can not quite explain.
A 700-blank of CMC production (Taiwan) had a day earlier against nor measured perfectly.
This result shows once again on the complex situation in CD (and DVD) blanks, with which one can not even rely on "well-established" brand names. Virtually no brand manufacturers produced more something itself (except - still - Taiyo Yuden / JVC, but they are not necessarily getting better), and everyone buys stuff somewhere, where he gets it as cheaply as possible. Sometimes (examples: Emtec, TDK) is behind an alleged brand manufacturers also a junk stall.
Such "Verramschungstendenzen" with solid quality decline are not entirely atypical for final phases of markets (historical example: compact cassette). That seems to repeat itself here.
There remains a very last point: Why do I really want to 92-minute CDs? Because that is the (true) running time of C90 Compact Cassette, if you subtract the leader tape. Of which I have to digitize a whole lot. Given the quality of blank CDs can not recommend to anyone, the data in parallel to store on your computer (and to secure). I'm going to do anyway (hopefully).
