What's the best blank CD-R for highest quality sound reproduction?

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The title says it all. I want to record all my MOFI and DCC discs to blanks to keep, then sell the originals.

The MOFI Gold CD-R's supply is all dried up. Don't know if they were actually the best anyway.

Any recommendations?
 
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I have used gold and silver Memorex Music CDs with great results. I burn them at 1x speed to ensure the pits/valleys are as deep as they can be.

The only difference with a "music" cd and any other CD-R is that royalties are paid on the music discs.
 
Data is data arguments aside, the "old" Taiyo-Yuden CDRs for "music" (not data) were the best. Check the prices of the "That's" brand Taiyo-Yuden CDRs on Ebay. They can be pricey. Taiyo-Yuden is now manufactured by JVC and music snobs will tell you these new CDRs are not as good as the pricier older ones. I don't know. I can only speak to my confidence with the "old" Taiyo-Yuden CDRs.

Another Taiyo-Yuden option is the old Fuji, Made in Japan, light blue top, CDRs made for "music." My go to CDR for years.

I used to trade boots a lot in the physical media days and having the best CDRs was a requirement. Good luck.
 
The one thats toasting in the old toaster at that moment.
I burn quite a bit of Ritek Ridata discs.
For a long time, I burned whatever Costco offered in tower bulk packs, but, then they stopped carrying them. So, now I get the Ritek Ridata discs at Frys.
 
Won't even mention the legality of your plan, but ...

I've always had good luck with Ritek (Ridata) here. Whatever you use, try to go with blank silver ... a lot of drives have "issues" with printed or embossed labels on the disks.

Not sure if those are available in jewel cases - I usually get a spindle and get the cases separately. I get em for data, but hey ... bits is bits.
 
meggy said:
The title says it all. I want to record all my MOFI and DCC discs to blanks to keep, then sell the originals. The MOFI Gold CD-R's supply is all dried up. Don't know if they were actually the best anyway. Any recommendations?
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meggy said:
The title says it all. I want to record all my MOFI and DCC discs to blanks to keep, then sell the originals.

The MOFI Gold CD-R's supply is all dried up. Don't know if they were actually the best anyway.

Any recommendations?
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Search for "Archive grade" disks. I always used Verbatim. They are rated to be readable after 50 years or more. Record at low (8x or less) speed.

But best way to deal with digital records - keep them on RAID array and move to new media every 3-4 years.
 
KeninDC said:
Data is data arguments aside, the "old" Taiyo-Yuden CDRs for "music" (not data) were the best. Check the prices of the "That's" brand Taiyo-Yuden CDRs on Ebay. They can be pricey. Taiyo-Yuden is now manufactured by JVC and music snobs will tell you these new CDRs are not as good as the pricier older ones. I don't know. I can only speak to my confidence with the "old" Taiyo-Yuden CDRs.

Another Taiyo-Yuden option is the old Fuji, Made in Japan, light blue top, CDRs made for "music." My go to CDR for years.

I used to trade boots a lot in the physical media days and having the best CDRs was a requirement. Good luck.
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I am fortunate to have a rather large stash of Fuji branded TY Japan from about 12 years ago. Top shelf stuff. :thumbsup:
 
Just to be clear, one CD will not "sound" any better than any other. Short of missing data (which would not color the sound but manifest as dropouts or errors) the only difference is errors and longevity. So to the original question of "sound quality" they all pretty much sound the same after you reach normal levels of error-free.
 
I can't tell one cent from one brand to another; not saying that someone else can't. No one would expect me to, though, since I used the cheapest ones I could find - given that, probably no one would hear a difference. But notice the past tense - I still have some on hand and will give something to family or friend maybe once or twice a year, but it's been awhile. Mighta missed 2016 completely. My wife still uses some of the old ones In the car, and she reports no problems, so those cheapie discs seem to be hanging in there AFAIK. I do still use cassettes occasionally, though. They're just more fun; I don't know why.
 
"I have used ... silver Memorex Music CDs... " I ditto this comment from SiliconTi. I have a f*ck ton of these that were initially used to archive the backups of some of my pre-recorded CDs. They were ripped well north of a decade ago and have yet to present any playback/data retrieval issues, most likely due to the fact that they were stored correctly as far as cases and room temperature are concerned.
 
sKiZo said:
Won't even mention the legality of your plan, but ...

I've always had good luck with Ritek (Ridata) here. Whatever you use, try to go with blank silver ... a lot of drives have "issues" with printed or embossed labels on the disks.

Not sure if those are available in jewel cases - I usually get a spindle and get the cases separately. I get em for data, but hey ... bits is bits.
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Whoa! sorry if I wasn't clear on that. I'm keeping the ones I record to CD-R and selling the Original MOFI and DCC's.

And thanks for the Ritek suggestions.
 
Technically, I believe you are in a very "dark grey" area with what you propose to do. You are permitted to make duplicate/archive copies of copyrighted material that you own--however, by selling the originals, you no longer have "rights" to that copyrighted material.
 
Agreed, but scolding someone on the internet for it is about like scolding them for driving above the speed limit.

savatage1973 said:
Technically, I believe you are in a very "dark grey" area with what you propose to do. You are permitted to make duplicate/archive copies of copyrighted material that you own--however, by selling the originals, you no longer have "rights" to that copyrighted material.
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JP said:
Yep. Not a grey area in the slightest - it's flat-out illegal.
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Whatever CD-Rs use use, I always try to buy a spindle with at least 50 blanks on it. You are covered in case there are any defective discs in the bundle.
 
Mitkraft said:
Agreed, but scolding someone on the internet for it is about like scolding them for driving above the speed limit.
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No, because a lot of people don't seem to know the facts on this. We now have a whole generation of people (at least - maybe it started in the 70s with cassette recorders) who feel entitled to bootleg copies. I'm not here to pound on the OP or debate the merits of the music industry and copyright, but I agree this is a case of 'having your cake and selling it too.' The day we stop paying any attention to the law - be it speed limits or copyright - is the day we descend into chaos. Dogs and cats, living together. Mass hysteria. I kid, but only to drive home the point.
 
I've been burning CD/DVD discs for twenty years. Those first CD burners were awful. My first one was a Ricoh 4x writer with SCSI interface. It made more than a few coasters. Success rate was probably ~75%. Hard to know whether it was the writer or the discs that caused the problem. These days most any brand of discs that can handle 48x and higher speeds will write your ones and zeros just fine at most any speed - should give you exactly what your source sends to the writer. I haven't written a 'coaster' in 10 years and that includes bluray discs. I have 15 year old el cheapo DVD-R discs that I've saved digital pictures to and can still be read just fine. Better than the images I've saved to hard drives. I back everything up to a 5TB disc every 6 months or so for archiving. I may take the time (some day) to transfer the DVD-R stuff over to dual layer bluray discs. Those have a 50gb capacity.
 
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