Burning Music to Audio CD, How to set CD burning speed?

Burn at 4X to 10X speed – the slower the better with 4X as the optimum.

CD burning/writing is a process of writing digital data from your computer hard drive to the blank CD-R in your optical drive. The primary reason why you should not be writing at the fastest burning speed is to reduce errors in the process. This can affect the resulting audio quality of the CD project.

Critical audio CD projects such as those in the major and independent labels album project are typically burn at a slow CD writing speed of 4X. This will produce an error-free CD master. This will be used in the CD replication process to mass-produced CD’s for distribution. Whatever CD writing software or optical drive you are using; set them at 4X (recommended) to 10X (maximum)