[ScottW]

On Jun 5, 6:36 am, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
"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 guess. I saw a big pallet of Panasonic S55s at Fryes for $89 ea.


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.

I'm pretty sure the CDR

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.

I know sunlight kills but Office flourescent?
Hmmm, you gave me a product idea. I need CD cases without
clear cases. I haven't seen any out there.

ScottW