fireberd
8X is my burning speed "standard". Faster than 8 to 12X and some older audio CD players will either not play the CD or skip. To be on the safe side and compatible with almost all audio CD players, I use 8X.
In the early days of CD burning, 1x, or 2x were the "studio standard". But as drive hardware and software has improved, that is no longer the case. All new SATA CD burners, except one model LG SATA CD/DVD burner, will only go down to 16X for Audio CD's. This can be a problem, as mentioned, with older audio CD players.
I have two (industrial line) LG SATA CD/DVD burners installed in my PC, that I luckily found as they are out of production, that will burn at 8X. I have a bank of 5 PATA (IDE) CD/DVD burners and they will burn at 8X. I can burn 5 CD's at a time with the bank of burner drives.
Thanks, CD Architect allows me to burn at 8x, so this is what I will do from now on.
OOPS, CD Architect goes down to 8x, but my drive doesn't, just down to 16x. Damn