(idm) RE: Phthalo pricing and CD-r's inherent level of suckage

From 9-5SuperSpy
Sent Tue, Mar 23rd 1999, 22:00

xxxxxx@xxx-xxx-xxx.xxxxx.xx.xx (little miss trinitron) wrote:

> as for compatibility, that's still a hazy subject..  my old yamaha,
> which must be getting on for 10 years old, has never failed to play
> any kind of cdr (and it has been fed a /lot/ of different types),
> whereas other people's brand new players will spit certain kinds of
> discs out, especially the low-grade silver/blue types.  when i need to
> buy a new cd player, it's going to be a /nightmare/ - i'll have to
> take 50 different discs to the shop and make sure they all play
> correctly!  for the map one release i used unbranded tdk (which are
> generally regarded as the best brand), and i didn't hear about any
> people who couldn't get it to play (apart from one poor guy who kept
> putting the disc in upside down..)

I bought a new discman because neither my stereo or my old discman read
CD-r's. I took a CD-r in to the store and they let me try it right there
on thier little speakers, you should have seen them looking at me when I
played it.(it was the forthcoming lexaunculpt on music au strom, no I
won't copy it for you). 

And as for quality, I've had the most luck with the silver and blue ones
and the most problems with the semi-transparent gold one's with the barely
visible greenish emulsion on the bottom.

Of course, it's this kind of problem that makes me weary of charging for
CD-r's in the first place. Loraine was originally concieved as a fund
drive premium for KUCI where we'd simply burn as many CD-r's as people
pledged. But when we priced out duplication (I didn't have a CD-r Drive 
then), it was almost as much as a run of 500 real CD's, hence the limited
edition to 500 copies. The whole 2CD thing came about as I hard a hard
time eliminating tracks so we just doubled the size of the comp.

-Daniel
xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx

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