CDRs for Component CD Recorders

[Creamyapples1]

Anyone have any decent websites with pimpsauce prices and decent shipping? There is only one local place that carries them and I'm tired of paying 15 bucks for a 6 pack of them, I'm at a point where I'm using more and more so it's time to be cost wary I guess. Thanks in advance.





P.S. this is like the 4th time I've tried to post this, sorry if it's repeatitive, I keep getting error messages.

 

[Dogman]

Anyone have any decent websites with pimpsauce prices and decent shipping? There is only one local place that carries them and I'm tired of paying 15 bucks for a 6 pack of them, I'm at a point where I'm using more and more so it's time to be cost wary I guess. Thanks in advance.





P.S. this is like the 4th time I've tried to post this, sorry if it's repeatitive, I keep getting error messages.

$15 for 6??? Damn...at Office Depot, or Staples, around here....$15 will buy you a hundred. Check out newwegg.com, or something like that. I got 100 blank DVD's for $30.

 

[treymonfauntre]

does your cd recorder need a certain brand of cd? isn't there relatively no difference between formats nowadays?

 

[Creamyapples1]

That's almost the impression I had, but the last few spindles of CDRs I got for use with my PC didn't work with my component burner. /shrug

 

[easychair]

Lots of consumer CD burners still require music CDs. The discs have a code to identify them, and the burner needs to see the code to burn. Lots of older disc players require them also, and won't play music burned on data CDRs.

Buy a CD burner that will use any CDRs. The money you save on discs will pay for it pretty quick. You can find Sony CDR-W33s for $250-$400 on ebay, they pop up pretty regularly. So do Tascam and HHB units.

 

[Creamyapples1]

Gee why didn't I think of that? I guess every year or so when my gear gets "outdated" I'll just throw it away and buy brand new. Thanks for the info!



/sarcasm off


Anyone else have a real answer?

 

[Theros]

I dont think he was entirely wrong, depending on how many CDs you are going through... that is an awful price for CDRs if those are the only brand/type that seem to wanna work... If you eat em regularly, then the whole cost offset thing starts edging in...

 

[Theros]

Not sure on the shipping, but amazon has CD-R DA discs at 15$ for a spindle of 30... Spose to be quite reliable for working on most recorders...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000059L44/ref=cm_bg_d/104-1255330-9953502?v=glance&n=172282

Or some others for $11.99 for a spindle of 30...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ref=sr_1_5/104-1255330-9953502?_encoding=UTF8

Shipping may make it not cost effective tho...

 

[Theros]

Lots of consumer CD burners still require music CDs. The discs have a code to identify them, and the burner needs to see the code to burn. Lots of older disc players require them also, and won't play music burned on data CDRs.

Easy had it right tho, most consumer CD replication units require CD-R DA discs, which has to do with SCMS (Serial Copy Management System) which only lets you make one clone from a disc ( a backup) , and wont permit a clone from a clone... Hence why the recorder wont take regular CDR discs... Another screwy idea for copy protection, which is completely retarded by allowing regular CDRs to do whatever with a computer based burner...

 

[Creamyapples1]

I'm not into copying other peoples stuff, it's for personal use. I was just curious to find some decent deals on discs without having to buy a new recorder, plus I don't think for my purposes the money to upgrade would be warranted at present.

 

[Fishmed]

Gee why didn't I think of that? I guess every year or so when my gear gets "outdated" I'll just throw it away and buy brand new. Thanks for the info!



/sarcasm off


Anyone else have a real answer?

Welcome to the world of technology.

I feel your pain. I have a Standalone Tascam CD Recorder I paid good money for, but it is VERY picky on what kind of CDR's it will write to now beacause of the change in CDR technology. Because finding the right CDR has become difficult, I had to break down and get something with newer technology.

For about $200 you can get the ALESIS CD Twin

You can use the USB connection to use it as another CD writer to your PC or as a standalone duplicator. Like the previous post states, you will save more money by upgrading.