CD burning speed question

[Voyage]

I have a question about the speed you choose when you burn a CD. Can the cd burning speed affect the laser of a stereo's cd player? Before I burned with 8x and now I burn with 24x as speed. Can this produce any damage?

Please help me solve this mystery.

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[Voyage]

[Mixmachine]

I've read a few magazines articles where the resident expert claims that recording at the slowest speed yields the best results, it cuts down on error corrections (better fidelity)even though my new TDK CDR recorder can do 24x and uses buffer memory I still record music at 2x only, I like to be on the safe side.

[Graham_Start]

This debate comes up at the Syntrillium/Cool Edit forum all the time... several people there point to an article that shows that higher burning speeds actually *reduce* the amount of errors on a CDR.

My burner only goes up to 8x, so I haven't been able to try this out all that much. I do most audio CDRs at 4x, and data at 8x. I figure that the stronger error-correction on a data CD gives you more a bit more breathing space.