CDRs or AMC CD9?
"ScottW" wrote in message
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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?
CDR s are known to be sensitive to UV light. Fluorescent lamps work by
means of a phosphor coating that converts UV to visible light. If the
phosphor coating is depleated, some UV may escape. Common phosphors don't
put out much UV, but they can put out quite a bit of light near the UV end
of the visible spectrum.
Hmmm, you gave me a product idea. I need CD cases without
clear cases. I haven't seen any out there.
Plastic usually absorbs UV quite well.
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