Re: CD Media quality (was: Re: vinyl vs. CD again)

From: Adam Cohen (a d a m EMAIL souljazz@souljazz.com)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 10:07:16 CEST

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    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.



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