Best Digital Audio CDR for standalone CD Recorder?

As always, there is rarely, if ever, a free launch! You pays fer what you gets....

I have found a significant difference in quality with the gold cdrs as opposed to those from the mass manufacturers. And they definitely last longer as well.

Of course, if you are recording mp3s or other lossy format music, it will not matter. (grin)

I 1st got into CDR because I've always been into my home-made compilations and have 100's of cassettes that I've done over the years so CDR was the logical way to go for me. I started out with the abysmal phillips recorder, it would freeze/fail when I was 2/3-3/4 done and all you could do when this happened was pitch it and start all over! I've owned a Pioneer PDR19RW for 4-5 years and it's worked flawlessly from the get-go. I can record from my PC but, although being faster, I still prefer my old-school ways. Besides, I can't help but think that the sound quality is superior recording from my rig than from my business computer. As far as usage, it's pretty much the same routine as recording with a cassette deck, except you can't make any mistakes!!!;) I'm sure you've heard of CDRW's that allow you to erase and fix mistakes (ala cassette), I've never used one but from what I understand they're nortorious for not playing in any machine other than the one you used to record it. Not good. Have fun, that what all this is supposed to be about!

Taiyo Yuden, or Mitsui Gold.
Taiyo is much cheaper, but Mitsui might sound just a hair better - I would go with Taiyo.

Taiyo sounds better than black ones, and are affordable.
If you google it, you can find good prices for them.

I am curious, how do you like your music now with all the new gears? Are you in sonic heaven? I hope you are enjoying music even more now...