cd-r music for blanks

Taiwanese Taiyo Yuden are one of the best (they invented CD-R) - recently bought by JVC. I would make sure it is original Taiyo Yuden. Recording on music CD-Rs makes any recording legal (like tape). Since recording is legal you can make copy of it on hard drive and use it.

Some one mentioned the Mobile Fidelity Gold discs. These wouldn't work for me, either in a Sony CD burner or multiple computers.

I use the MoFi's 24 Kt Gold Ultra Disc in my Alesis Masterlink. I wouldn't use anything else. Why?

I would have seconded Taiyo Yuden/JVC, except that as far as I am aware they don't make "music CDRs," that will record in a CD recorder. Maxell and Sony, as suggested by Mofimadness, do make them, as do TDK and Mitsui/MAM-A. The latter are described as using a gold reflective layer and having various other advanced features, at a higher price point than the others, of course. Not sure how or if they differ from the MFSL Gold CDRs.

Regards,
-- Al

Taiyo Yuden CD-R's are and have always been made in Japan, not Taiwan.

Music CD-R's are an increasingly rare breed and usually expensive. More than that, the A>D conveertors in standalone CD recorders that required music CD-R's were never very good (compared to current ones or the ones in "pro" CD recorders), so I'm not sure it matters much which CD-R blanks you use.