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10.0
No, All CD-Rs are *not* the same.
As the years have gone by, my car stereo has gotten more and more picky about its media. At this point, it will play only about 30% of regular factory-pressed music CDs and less than 20% of CDR-s I record on non Taio Yuden blanks.
This didn't use to be a big problem because I could read the "made in" labels on CD-Rs at the store. If it said "made in Japan" then it was invariably made by Taio Yuden regardless of whether the "brand" was Sony, Fuji or whatever. In the last year or so it has become very uncommon to be able to find a batch of "made in Japan" CD-Rs anymore however.
I've burned 4 or 5 from this pack of 100 already, and my stereo has been happy with each one.
So far, no duds. They function as designed; not much more to tell. I'd buy them again.
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10.0
But are'nt all Blank CDs the same????
Being both a listener and a musician , I want to hear a good copy
of music. My friend told me about these blank Cd's. They are wonderful. I had lots of problem with my version 9 Roxio not
reconizing the Cd or burning it very poorly. These are like.. well
just amazing. The adapt to anything mp3,flac,ape. I heard you can
burn a CD with mp3 to burn as a data disk to of course giving you
much more listening time on a CD. I could not do this with TDK,nor
Verbatim blank discs. You put one of these suckers in, it does everything. When I do road trips I have 4 disc now that are holding
about 3 hours of solid music,without the frustrating waiting for your
car cd player to search or it will show its playing but it has not actually touched the disk. I first went to Google to find out what are the best recording Cd's there is. They told me it was these. So I always check it out ,went to their site on how they make these beauties. And of course Amazon does have even a lower price than buying directly from the company. You dont have to get anything fancy
to get these. Because there are many styles to choose from. The CDs
are not marked as in top and bottom, but if you look at one side ,you will notice one side has a blue tint,that is the recording side.
I tried out my first 100 and I am just about to order another 100.
Fantastic sounding especially for Jazz and Classical.
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10.0
Had no problems with these CD's
They're pretty decent quality blank CD's. I've had no problems. Just remember both sides of the CD's are silver. With no letters on the CD's what so ever. Just plain blank media with no company name, or CD's type or length etc...
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10.0
Different grades of Taiyo Yuden
I just found out that there is a grade-a and grade-b when it comes to the silver thermal cdr's. I purchased 2 100 count cake boxes from a vendor I won't mention and just about all of them have air bubbles in the thermal layer coating. We'll I contacted Taiyo Yuden and gave them the 7 digit lot number on the hub. Guess what, these are not their grade-a product but something by Valuebrand/Microboards!! Same packaging and smell (Taiyo Yuden is supposed to smell like peaches I read somewhere) anyway please before purchasing Taiyo Yuden inquire as to the grade and ask if they have a 13 digit lot number, this will indicate grade-a. I was informed by Media Supply that they only sell grade-a unless requested. I have purchased from them before and they had 13 digit lot numbers and no air bubbles. But of course I wanted to find a cheaper price and purchased from another vendor. Bad mistake.
Why would Taiyo Yuden impune their reputation with a grade-b product? It's like a game on how to confuse the customer.
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10.0
Probably not fakes
It's a serious charge to suggest that these are "fakes". I wouldn't judge simply by what you expect to see written on the hub. It's easy to download a freeware program that will scan a blank disc and tell you all the details about it and it's manufacturer. Please do a legitimate test of them before you make that charge. I am more inclined to suspect a compatibility issue with your equipment.
I bought these CDRs for making copies of CD+Gs for karaoke. CD+Gs can be very picky on quality and Taiyo Yuden works the best for me for this purpose. The copies will play in a lot more different karaoke players than other brands. I am very pleased with them. The only problem I had was the way the box was packed for shipment. The spindles were broken and one cakebox cracked, but the disks were not damaged.
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4.0
Are they really Taiyo Yuden ???
I know that Taiyo Yuden manufactures quality professional blank media but these are from from it. There is no proof on the CD hub that identifies them as Taiyo Yuden. Already I have had 2 out of 10 CDs that did'nt record any data during a live church service although the Tascam pro unit we use showed that recording was in process. Buyers beware!
