Re: [ARSCLIST] Gold discs manufacturers

[Heath Condiotte <hcondiotte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having spent some time at American Digital, I can vouch for the increased
ruggedness of the Klone Gold compared to the "standard" Mitsui gold.  The
Klone has a thicker, heavier top-coat that, in my opinion, is far superior
to the top coat Mitsui uses for it's own Gold discs.  Why Mitsui does not
put this coating on their own CD-rs is beyond me, but I for one, prefer the
Klone.

For reference, the Klone silver CD-r is NOT manufactured by Mitsui.  Only
the Golds are outsourced to MAM.  Last I heard, the silvers were being
manufactured by CMC Magnetics, but this could very well have changed since I
was there.

Happy friday,

Heath

Heath Condiotte
Audio Engineer
Xepa Digital
www.xepadigital.com
hcondiotte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(724)794-3686 phone
(724)794-3292 fax

-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Aaron Z Snyder
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 1:54 PM
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Gold discs manufacturers


This isn't exactly another manufacturer, but Klone, which seems to be a
private label of American Digital (www.klone.com and
www.american-digital.com) has a gold CD which is advertised as being more
rugged than MAM-A. The irony is that Klone CDs are *made by* MAM-A. They're
a little more expensive, claim to have extra protective surfacing to
increase ruggedness, and claim to have a 300-year lifetime. I don't know if
there's any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, which verifies these claims. I
*can* tell you that I've bought MAM-A CDs from American Digital at very good
prices, and that their deliveries are reliable. They have T-Y CDs, but no
gold ones.

Aaron Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steven Smolian
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 1:27 PM
> To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Gold discs manufacturers
>
>
> Is anyone beside Mistsui-MAM offering gold reflective surface
> discs at present?
>
> Kodak's seems to be discontinued, and so has that of T-Y,
> according to a recent phone conversation I had with them, though
> some are still in warehouse.
>
> Any others?
>
> Steve Smolian
>