For those folks out there with CDRWs that can read CDs at 32x-40x (or soon faster): Trying to play older CDs (pressed during the 80s) will cause these high-speed drives to make a lot of racket, apparently, because early audio CDs were manufactured with less attention to dynamic balancing (that is: they wobble!). Certain notable early CD releases actually have been remastered and re-released on better discs, in part, I now believe, because of this. So be aware that a suddenly noisy new CD-RW drive may just have a wobbly old audio CD in it that was never intended to be spun that fast.
[This message has been edited by schwei (edited 02-25-2001).]
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