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Yes, but CD-Rs are more prone to read errors than CDs, so your CD player's error correction may have to guess more of these 1's and 0's because it can't read them properly, resulting in an overall poorer sound.

Sorry to pick on you so much, but I can't help it. :D

There have been studies done that show that CD-Rs are not any more prone to read errors than regular pressed CDs. In fact, in one study I read, the CD-R had less read errors than the factory pressed CD that it was made from. If you have stuck a few CDs into high speed drives (like in your PC), you probably hear different sounds. Some older, heavier CDs sound like a helicopter is landing in the room. The ability of the CD player to spin the disc up without wobble is one of the most important aspects of good digital playback.

As for bad 1's and 0's resulting in "overall poorer sound", that just can't happen. If a bunch of 1's and 0's were read incorrectly, the resulting music would not have reduced bass or rolled off highs. Enough bad data and you get clicks and drop outs. The flipping of a few 1's or 0's cannot alter the frequency nor the amplitude. That isn't how the audio D/A conversion process works.

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2) Buy better blanks. I only buy Taiyo Yuden or Mitsui blanks. Yeah, I pay a bit more, but I worry a lot less about the longevity.

And how are we going to know that the vendor isn't using cheap blanks? I certainly have a handful of CD-Rs where the top layer is peeling around the edges and flaking off, making it difficult for the computer to access the data. It's my experience that CDRs don't last as long as regular CDs, and I think it is kind of crazy to be asked to pay full price for one.

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While lower pricing would be even better, CDRs plus downloads are an utterly sensible business model for items like J R Monterose and Louis Smith. Beats the heck out of out of print forever and 200 bucks on eBay. Just a coincidence that it comes at a time when in-print availability of the 50s-70s Blue Note catalog was at a peak. (I remember that titles like Larry Young - Unity were excruciatingly rare in the mid 70s!) I don't believe the number of in-print Blue Note stamped CD titles will ever go up again, and CDRs keep the music available. The lumbering behemoth has moved a few millimeters in the direction of reality, give them the tiniest bit of credit.

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2) Buy better blanks. I only buy Taiyo Yuden or Mitsui blanks. Yeah, I pay a bit more, but I worry a lot less about the longevity.

And how are we going to know that the vendor isn't using cheap blanks? I certainly have a handful of CD-Rs where the top layer is peeling around the edges and flaking off, making it difficult for the computer to access the data. It's my experience that CDRs don't last as long as regular CDs, and I think it is kind of crazy to be asked to pay full price for one.

This is my concern as well. Yes, I buy Yuden for all my stuff, but I didn't always and I have a lot of discs I burnt when I first got a CD-R that no longer play. I've had my stuff replicated at a pro replication house and the blanks they used were not Yuden or Mitsui so I don't even know if my own band's discs will be playable in 20 years. No one is going to come out and say "we're using crap blanks" but until you get one, you don't know.

Honestly, I'd rather have some kind of lossless file plus pdfs of the art if we're going this route.

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I admit I find bitching about this silly.

Why don't you pay me thirty dollars for a session you've always wanted. I'll give it to you on a cassette that's been baking on the dashboard of my car all summer.

If I had EVERYTHING else I thought I might want and didn't have the $30, I'd whine. Anything else is .............

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