[78-L] reliable CD-R blanks?

[David Lennick]

Agree with Alan..I forgot about a brand I tried that worked very well. TY VALUE 
is made by JVC and works in real time. The TDKs I get are also printable on 
certain machines (not all brands work).

dl

On 12/27/2014 6:02 PM, Alan Bunting wrote:
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> I agree with Steve Williams - I too have found that Taiyo-Uden are far and away the most consistently reliable blanks with much lower error rates than most other brands. So far as I know they are still being made in Japan unlike others, many of which are manufactured by one company in India who are notorious for poor quality.  I was surprised to discover that many of the leading brands including Imation, Verbatim and TDK are now manufactured by them.   I don't know if all JVC branded blanks are now  manufactured by Taiyo-Uden but several batches of them that I have bought over the past year were and the last spindle of Taiyo-Udens I bought had the JVC logo on the shrink wrap..
> Alan Bunting
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>       On Saturday, 27 December 2014, 19:58, Steve Williams<jazzhunter at collector.org.invalid>  wrote:
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> No-one has mentioned Taiyo-Yuden, which have always been rated the best for
> both CD and DVD.  However, since they're the best, they do frequently get
> counterfeited, so know your dealer.  Taiyo-Yuden is the OEM now for JVC
> blanks.  For AZO dye CDs and dual layer DVD Verbatim are the most reliable.
> Also Verbatim Bluray blanks have the least errors of the brands I've tried.
>
> Steve Williams .
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> By the way, Sony's replacement blanks were just as useless in real time on
> my
> machine (HHB).
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> dl
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> On 12/27/2014 11:33 AM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
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>> Replying to Gene's question, if you want to record in real time, (i.e. a
> live concert), you have to use blanks which are reliable at 1x. ? Otherwise,
> it's like taking pictures on a bright sunny day in winter with fast film;
> the lasar burns the surface of the CDR and the surrounding area and playback
> is impossible. ? I must add, however, that this isn't always the case; at
> CBC, we were often given TDK blanks to record live concerts and they often
> worked fine, even though they were rated up to 52x with no slow end
> indicated. ? Unlike David L., I haven't had the problems with SONY blanks
> that he describes, however I HAVE had the same shabby treatment from SONY
> when it comes to backing up their products. ? Of course, if you NEVER record
> live concerts or anything in real time, there's no problem with sticking to
> hi-speed blanks, but at least having some 1x blanks on hand is useful
> whenever you DO need them.
>> db
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> From: Malcolm Rockwell<malcolm at 78data.com.invalid>
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> Thanks for all the responses. It looks like TDK and Sony are the clear
> winners.
> I'm going to get the TDK Duplicators and give them a try (thanks, Dave).
> A few years back I ordered some of Disc Masters mid-line blanks and had
> no coasters and no dropouts at any speed (except for 1X which I never
> use anyhow). Their main problem was an excessively high shipping cost,
> which they seem to have resolved. I'm going to give them another try as
> well.
> I think they'll supply error rates on request - as I remember they're
> LOW - but I don't know if they'll say which manufacturer(s) they use
> currently.
> Thanks again,
> Malcolm
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