Janu01:01 EST #4 First off, a warning.USB just makes it take longer, which I agree is reason enough to use Firewire, but you should not mislead people in thinking they will get poorer audio quality because they use USB to transmit the data to the drive.īill McHargue Physicist David Ozab (ATPM Staff) You could burn a CD at 1 bit per hour and it would be the same data, and hence the same quality audio. "Since higher burn speeds result in higher quality audio, USB (at least Apple's implementation) turned out to be inadequate for audio CD burning, which, as a musician, was my principal reason for buying a CD burner." In your article "Que! Fire CD-RW Drive" you state:
Retrospect DOES NOT WORK with these new mechanisms. Janu01:01 EST #2 QPS has started shipping these drives with a SAMSUNG mechanism instead of the Plextor one.The Apple FireWire extentsions (2.7) will handle the Maxtor drive just fine. Word of caution: if you have a Maxtor external FireWire drive, disable all the Maxtor extensions when using your QueFire or you'll be pulling your hair out in no time. I had to give away a 50-pack of Imation 700MB/80Min CD-Rs because the drive wouldn't recognize them. Maxell and Fuji are also pretty consistent. Word of warning two: be advised that QPS suggests using the following CD-R media only: Ricoh, Mitsui, Taiyo Yuden, Kodak, TDK, and Pioneer. QPS tech support, on the other hand, is fairly responsive. I apparently didn't and it took 4 months, 15 e-mails, and at least 3 hours on hold before I got mine replaced. Word of warning one: if you have to return your drive for repair, make absolutely sure you go through their inane RMA procedure properly. Then, the QPS customer service nightmare began. My first one stopped working after about 25 discs burned. Janu01:01 EST #1 I've had a Que Fire 8x4x32x CD-RW drive since last May.I’m not sure whether it’s the interface or the burner itself that’s picky, but save yourself some time and trouble and buy good media (this is sound advice in general). Subsequently, I ran the same test with an Imation CD-RW, and was able to burn data successfully at 4x. I was able to run 4x in simulation mode, however, which suggest the problem was with the disc, and not the burner.
Platinum 650MB), I was unable to burn successfully above 2x. Here’s where high quality discs seem to make a big difference. Then, I tested the drive with rewritable media. Though quality does increase with burn speed, some older CD players (and most car stereo systems) can’t read discs burned at faster than 4x. For real-world use, I recommend good quality blanks (blue is good, gold is a bit better) and a 4x burn. The drive and the interface had no problems with the extra demands of audio either. Then, using another cheap disc (which I would never recommend), I burned an audio file at 8x. Using the inexpensive generic CD-R included, I burned a data file at 8x with no problems. First, I tested the drive as an audio burner.
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