Hi,

Does anyone have any suggestion for a good, CD-burner? I recently bought a new A-open 48 speed burner and it absolutely SUCKS big time.  
When you have just installed it, it's basically defective (it just wrecks CD's except the 1 you get with it) until you do a firmware upgrade. Then it burns also TDK's (well, maybe 2 out of 3) but hardly anything else.  :-/
Damn thing messed up far more CD's than it burned successfully on whatever speed I try.  
I don't want super duper megazillion x speeds, I just want reliability. I also would like the ability to burn at 1x speed for best audio quality (although I don't know if this still applies for today's burners).

Erik  

my vote goes to Plextor.

plextor or pioneer. newer drives by em can bypass the copyprotection scheme of audio cds.

well these copyprotected audio cds arent real cds... there is a standard and they spit on it... therefore a lot of drives cant play em (intended) unfortunatelly a lot of usual cds players refuse to play em too. quite strange that u have to make a copy first in order to play em isnt it? :>

[if u r wondering. copy protection for audio cds is common in germany]

The last CD-RW I bought was an external Lite-On, and I can say nothing bad about it.  It's never ruined a disk, it plugged-and-played perfectly, came bundled with Nero, is USB2.0 so goes super-fast, and is a lovely metallic blue colour.  Cost me about £110, which is about $175.

I'm amazed you can pick up an internal burner for $20 in the US!  Then again, you lot also pay next to nothing for the blank disks, don't you?