Benq 1625 Lightscribe as good as 1640? - Club CDFreaks

TheCosmicEnergy · 27-12-2005

I was going to get the Benq 1640 because of everyone here highly recommends it, but as I was searching for the best price on one of them I saw the 1625 lightscribe for $65 including shipping. My question of course, does it read and burn as good as the 1640? I'll mainly be copying DVD's with it on a 1 year old Compaq Presario if that matters.
Later and Happy Holidays,
Kelly

TheCosmicEnergy · 02-01-2006

Never mind! Thanks for nothin', BTW! ;-)

I've got a Beaner 1655 lightscribe in transit, and for less than I was gonna pay for the 1625 too ($62.99 inclusive). Hopefully it will have left the 1625's devils behind.

Cosmic

nomadh · 13-02-2006

I got a 1655 about 2 weeks ago and so far its impressive. As a reader it made me realize my old burns with my old nec 2500/2510flashed were pretty good. Even the nec that burned them said they failed. But the 1655 burns were even better. I went through about 10 different single layer media from old 2x to new 16x. They all burned well even the junk disks pass as readable. Usually a cd-speed quality rating of 92%+ but sometimes the junk media would fall apart at the 4+ gig mark with a 20-40 PIF error spike. The good media like mcc or ty are beautiful with a q= 94-99% PIF usually <2 or <4 very few total PIF and and the PIE <30 . Thats with the stock FW. It should get even better with upgrades. So far so good.

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TheCosmicEnergy CD Freaks Rookie Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 36	Benq 1625 Lightscribe as good as 1640? <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> I was going to get the Benq 1640 because of everyone here highly recommends it, but as I was searching for the best price on one of them I saw the 1625 lightscribe for $65 including shipping. My question of course, does it read and burn as good as the 1640? I'll mainly be copying DVD's with it on a 1 year old Compaq Presario if that matters. Later and Happy Holidays, Kelly __________________ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ---------------Everything goes better with Zeppelin-------------- -----------------------follow Your stairway to--------------------- -------------------------------LedZeppelin.com --------------------------- Last edited by TheCosmicEnergy; 27-12-2005 at 03:53.

02-01-2006	#2 (permalink)
TheCosmicEnergy CD Freaks Rookie Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 36	Re: Benq 1625 Lightscribe as good as 1640? Never mind! Thanks for nothin', BTW! ;-) I've got a Beaner 1655 lightscribe in transit, and for less than I was gonna pay for the 1625 too ($62.99 inclusive). Hopefully it will have left the 1625's devils behind. Cosmic __________________ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ---------------Everything goes better with Zeppelin-------------- -----------------------follow Your stairway to--------------------- -------------------------------LedZeppelin.com ---------------------------

13-02-2006	#3 (permalink)
nomadh CD Freaks Rookie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 45	Re: Benq 1625 Lightscribe as good as 1640? I got a 1655 about 2 weeks ago and so far its impressive. As a reader it made me realize my old burns with my old nec 2500/2510flashed were pretty good. Even the nec that burned them said they failed. But the 1655 burns were even better. I went through about 10 different single layer media from old 2x to new 16x. They all burned well even the junk disks pass as readable. Usually a cd-speed quality rating of 92%+ but sometimes the junk media would fall apart at the 4+ gig mark with a 20-40 PIF error spike. The good media like mcc or ty are beautiful with a q= 94-99% PIF usually <2 or <4 very few total PIF and and the PIE <30 . Thats with the stock FW. It should get even better with upgrades. So far so good.

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