CDRs or AMC CD9?
"ScottW" wrote in message
I recently redid my office system moving my original High
School/college system into the office. Original Large
Advents driven by a Sansui AU6500. Sounds great compared
to the crap I had in the small room. I had a bunch of
CDRs I had burned for work (headphones on my PC) but my
not so new anymore IBM desktop has a nice disk drive
sync'd buzz in the sound out so I never listen. Anyway
the stack of generic "Office Depot" CDRs sat on my desk
for a couple of years seeing nothing but office
flourescent and cool AC. They're still yellowing just a
tad. I brought 'em home and tried in my office on an AMC
CD9 player....sounds like dirty vinyl. All scratchy etc.
Moral of the story - the AMC that you have is not optimal for playing CDRs.
Given the current pricing of optical disc players, this is hardly a major
issue. Out with the old and in with the new!
I went through half the stack and finally toward the
middle they started to be almost playable. Then I tossed
one in my PC DVD drive (PC is hooked up for net radio)
and it plays fine. Now I know when I burned these things
2 years ago they played on the AMC. I'm really losing
faith in CDRs and a bit in the AMC.
Either the CDRs degraded or the player degraded or both. Your storage
methodology for the CDRs is the pits. It is well-known that CDRs are
sensitive to light and should be stored in a dark, cool, dry place.
Here's a quick experiment. Take a regular pressed CD you can sacrifice and a
CDR with music on it that you can sacrifice, and put them outside, say on a
clothes line or something like it. Take 'em down in a week and try to play
them both. The CDR will probably be trash, and the pressed CD will probably
be fine.
BTW, I dumped the AMC in my main system for a Panasonic
RP-91 with the hotly disputed (on RAHE anyway) remaster
feature. I use it on 3, just sounds smoother to me.
Newer players are designed to get the most that they can out of CDRs. It's a
survival issue for the manufacturers - any optical player that is in
warranty and can't do a good job with CDRs and DVDRs is going to have a lot
of returns in warranty. Those all come out of the manufacturer's pocket, and
tick off the retailers, not to mention the consumers.
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