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Posted by Barry Cronin on June 9, 2024, 9:26 pm, in reply to "Re: CD-Rs"
On your last point, perhaps that is what the 'R' stands for?
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Hyperion's use of CD-Rs precede its acquisition by Universal. I believe they started using them around 2020; a few people online reported encountering these as restocks at Berkshire Record Outlet, which didn't (and still doesn't) indicate to the buyer that these discs are CD-Rs.
Although I've personally had bad luck with CD-Rs and refuse to buy them, a lot of other listeners report that they are as reliable as factory-pressed CDs. In a bit of interesting timing with your post, I just acquired a clutch of CD-Rs from the estate of a collector—all of them are afflicted with various stages of CD rot. Previous Message
Hi. Does anyone - more knowledgeable than me - want to discuss CD-Rs, in particular with reference to Hyperion?
That acronym is popping up all over their website recently. Their new releases are not CD-Rs - cf. the new Takacs Qt. disc of Schubert Quartets - but follow the Takacs link and see how many of their 'old' discs are now CD-R only, to give one example.
Admittedly, Hyperion are upfront with which of their titles are CD-R and which are not, but if it's cheaper for the company to issue titles in this way (and it must be cheaper or why else do it?), at the very least pass a little of the saving on to the customer?!
Perhaps one should just accept Hyperion isn't what it used to be? No longer independent, even though they still proclaim themselves as such on their site, prices increased, and now CD-Rs flooding in.
First-world problems, I know, but any thoughts will be welcome.
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CD-Rs - Barry Cronin June 3, 2024, 10:40 am
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