Re: CD Mixers suck (was CD Media quality (was: Re: vinyl vs. CDagain))

From: Olaf Molenveld (olaf@interactivelink.nl)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 16:50:03 CEST

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    seriously, i never encountered a tascam 2cd set in a club..it's either
    pioneer, denon or numark..over here, it's europe btw ;)

    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 10:51
    Subject: CD Mixers suck (was CD Media quality (was: Re: vinyl vs. CDagain))

    > on 3/31/01 1:16 AM, Elson Trinidad at elson@westworld.com wrote:
    >
    > > At 12:24 AM 3/31/01 -0500, Adam Cohen wrote:
    > >>
    > >> I ended up renting the Tascam CD-302, and have been playing around with
    it
    > >> for the past 6 hours.. I was a bit disappointed to find out that it
    has
    > >> problems reading a few of my CDR's (although only one of the readers
    > >> encounters difficulty, so maybe it's just a defective unit or
    something.
    > >
    > >
    > > 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.
    >
    > Update: Now one of the CD players refuses to read _ANY_ type of CD.
    Looks
    > like I'm screwed.. When I try to take it back, they're going to blame it
    on
    > me and I'm going to have to pay for it to be repaired or something. What
    a
    > piece of shit. This seriously changes my opinion of Tascam.
    >
    > Adam
    >



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