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Posted by Nick Barnard on June 4, 2024, 7:45 pm, in reply to "Re: CD-Rs"
My knowledge of the technical processes involved fit very neatly onto a postage stamp.
However, in principle I have no issue with companies using CD-R. In essence this is the same process that we can all do in the comfort of our own home. The loss of the capacity to mass-produce at speed is replaced by the flexibility very low - even single disc - runs allow. We no longer live in an age when tens of thousands of copies of a particular CD are required (were they ever in the CM field except for the 3 tenors?!) so no business will gear up and carry costs for a capacity that will never be used.
The only concern - as Ralph rightly suggests - is whether this process significantly reduces the durability/life span or sound quality of the resulting disc. 
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tuxedo, I believe the manufacturing process for so-called "factory-pressed" CDs is different from the laser-burning of CD-Rs; apparently the pits on pressed CDs are shaped much more accurately than those created on CD-Rs by the burning laser beam. But if there is no error in either process, we are hardly like to hear any difference and as I said, it is far from clear whether one lasts long than the other.
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CD-Rs - Barry Cronin June 3, 2024, 10:40 am
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