What to look for in purchasing CD-R's for recordin

Yes, the burner makes just as much of a difference as the media. That's why I stated TY media on a Plextor Premium burner. All burners are different. My Alesis Masterlink absolutely does NOT like Black CD-R media while my Tascam DV-RA 1000 loves it. That's why you have to check your error rates for each burner/media to acheive the best match!

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Bruce

Thank you everyone for the great replies. What if I am simply making copies on my PC? I would only be making a handful of CD's so I don't want to purchase a large number of blank CD's.

What if I am simply making copies on my PC? I would only be making a handful of CD's so I don't want to purchase a large number of blank CD's.

Memorex black CD-Rs in Best Buy will do the job just fine. $20 for 50-disc spindle. You can use them for data as well and they sound very good.

Thanks Audphile1. Most likely any recording I would be doing is making copies for people who are not audiophiles or making CD's to use in my Van.

Another question - I notice that CD's state a record speed, such as, "up to 48x". Does this speed have any bearing on quality?

Contrary to popular belief, burning high speed discs at slow speed can cause errors. But, it seldom happens. It is hard to find slow speed discs but HHB has them. I use them with my HHB stand alone because HHB warns against using high speed CDRs in their recorder. I use Taiyo Yuden 48X in all of my computers.