Re: [ARSCLIST] Memorex CDs

[David Lewis <davlew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is correct. The oldest homeburn CD I have was made in 1999, and it
still plays fine even though it's been somewhat roughly handled.

David N. Lewis
Assistant Classical Editor, All Music Guide
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"Contemporary composers, and at least a considerable number of them, explain
what system they used, in what way they arrived at something. I do not do
that. I think that the matter of the way by which one arrived at something
is, for the listeners, unimportant. What matters is the final result, that
is the work itself." -Grazyna Bacewicz, 1964

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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Memorex CDs

Joe_Iraci@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> This taken from the PCworld article linked below:
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> |"Many of the cheap burnable CDs available at discount stores have a life
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> |span of around two years," Gerecke says. "Some of the better-quality
discs|
> |offer a longer life span, of a maximum of five years."
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This is the third list on which I've seen reference to that article. 
I've no idea who Gerecke is, but his expertise is, shall we say, 
limited. He offers no facts to support the opinions expressed so 
authoritatively and, when he comes close to providing data, they include 
such gems as the dye in erasable CDs.

That is not to say that there is no truth in what he says, only that 
there is no basis in the article for believing its assertions. I suspect 
that others on this list share my experience of more than a decade of 
recording on various media. In that time and with some thousands of 
discs recorded, none that was well written initially has failed given 
proper storage and handling.

Mike
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