all my burned CD's are blue CD-R (mostly kodak) and i never had a problem
with those on my numarks...other brands also read these ok....never used
tascam though....btw, personally i thing the pioneer CMX500 is overkill,
you're better of with 2 CDJ500 mk2's or CDJ700's..
Olaf
----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Cohen <a d a m EMAIL souljazz@souljazz.com>
To: Acid Jazz Mailing List <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: zaterdag 31 maart 2001 10:07
Subject: Re: CD Media quality (was: Re: vinyl vs. CD again)
> on 3/31/01 1:16 AM, Elson Trinidad at elson@westworld.com wrote:
>
> > Turn your CD-Rs over; what color are they? If they're dark blue or dark
> > green, that might be the problem. Some CD players have problems reading
> > darker-colored CD-Rs, which audio CD players are known to have problems
> > reading from (CD-ROM drives don't). Try using silver- or gold-colored
> > CD-Rs; you can buy them in bulk (100 for $33!) at your local computer
> > show/swap meet.
> >
> > Don't ever use dark-colored CD-Rs for audio, they're just fine for
computer
> > data though.
>
> Yes, ALL my CD's are Verbatim Data Life plus blue bottom's.. I've been
> playing around with the Tascam unit a bit more and it seems there's quite
a
> few CD's it isn't recognizing (and now both decks are having problems).
I'm
> going to try and exchange the unit tomorrow for the Pioneer CMX-5000
(which
> didn't seem to have any problems when I demo'ed it in the store).
Hopefully
> I won't have to reburn every one of my CD's ;)
>
> Adam
>
> P.S. For $1600 (CDN), the Tascam unit really should have a laser that's
> capable of reading any colored media.. Usually I find that lower cost CD
> players have difficulty reading CDR's since the reflectivity is lower than
a
> store bought CD, but I'm surprised that this machine is giving me
problems,
> given it's made by a reputable company with a good name.
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sat Mar 31 2001 - 17:05:51 CEST