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Richard S. Sandmeyer  
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 More options Jun 24 2008, 9:16 pm
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical.recordings
From: "Richard S. Sandmeyer" <rich.s...@nospam.verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:16:19 GMT
Local: Tues, Jun 24 2008 9:16 pm
Subject: Re: Nimbus now selling CD-Rs
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In article <48617e50$0$5021$607ed...@cv.net>,
 "Norman M. Schwartz" <n...@optonline.net> wrote:

> Richard S. Sandmeyer wrote:

> >>> On 2008-06-24 06:28:00 +0200, Steve de Mena <st...@stevedemena.com>
> >>> said:

> >>>> I received a new Nimbus CD release this week (Britten's "Albert
> >>>> Herring", from 1949) and see that they are CD-Rs and not pressed
> >>>> compact discs. Doing a little googling I came across an article
> >>>> that says Nimbus switched to "on demand CD-Rs" four years ago.
> >>>> Lyrita does this too, for all their releases.  I was a little
> >>>> surprised to see Nimbus do this as I recall that they had the
> >>>> first, or one of the first, CD pressing plants in the UK.

> >>> Makes me wonder, though, all the early predictions that CDs had
> >>> short lifespans (not CD-Rs but pressed CDs) don't seem to have come
> >>> true. I have CDs that are more than 20 years old,  and I've never
> >>> found one that's got a glitch.

> > As for the comment about Lyrita using CD-Rs, that isn't true of all of
> > their recent releases is it?  I have, for example, a Lyrita CD of the
> > Bax Symphonies #2 and #5 purchased within the past few months and it
> > certainly doesn't appear to be a CD-R (unless the newer CD-Rs look
> > just like normal CDs).

> You could download one of the several free CD-R identifying tools. I often
> use them to identify the actual manufacturer of a CD-R and also to help
> distinguish between a pressed CD and a CD-R whenever it appears 'suspect'.

Thanks.  I looked for the lettering on the inner ring that Steve de Mena
mentioned in an earlier reply, and the Lyrita disc in question is indeed
a CD-R.  The quality of the labeling and the fact that it had a silver
color just like a standard pressed CD was enough to keep me from
suspecting.  The older CD-Rs, such as some I have from Arkiv Music, had
a blue color that made them impossible not to notice.

Actually, I have no objection to a CD-R so long as its life expectancy
is sufficiently long and its quality is as good as a pressed CD.  
However, it would be nice if the labels that produce them would make the
fact known to their customers (Arkiv does, of course).  Some of the more
cautious customers might like to rip them immediately on receipt just in
case the life of CD-Rs turns out to be short.

--
Rich Sandmeyer
rich dot sand at verizon dot net


 
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