CD-R discs for music

Nice call jea48, aggielaw, bombaywalla. I picked up the CDR-pros at Walmart; 10 for $8.00. Good to try 10 before getting 50 and they included cases so the price wasn't too bad.
Jea48, the Maxell CDR-pro are the same dark blue-green color as my older Sonys that were made in Austria. I got CDR-audio even though I don't need to because they worked better for me too.
All Sonys have a smooth edge as far as I can tell. The new Sonys have a light blue-green color and they work okay for me in that I have'nt had any bad dics. But I am noting sonic degradation in clones* vs original. I haven't compared light vs. dark Sony's to see it there is a difference. I think Marantz may not have adjusted the burn head right. BTY even though Sony clones* aren't perfect, the black CDR's were even less perfect.

* The U.S. government has deemed cloning legal so I now clone CD's and no longer copy them.

>>" The U.S. government has deemed cloning legal so I now clone CD's and no longer copy them.'<<
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I did not know that, LoL.
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Something to try to get the "clone", closer to the original.

Use a dark green or black marker on the outside edge of the disc before you burn a disc.

By chance do you have a CD demagnetizer, like a Bedini clarifier. If so spin one disc both sides before you load it in the CDR. Burn and finalize and check the playback.
In the Pioneer it improved the final product.
In the Sony it degraded the final product.
Why, I have no idea. If you have a demagnetizer try it and post back.

Never demagnetize a CD-R after burning data, I don't what happens but it will sound dead.
Jim

Cdc, I was going through the archives and ran across this one, good reading.
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1051384332&openfrom

Jim