It seems that lower quality CDR factories have improved their quality of media. I was wondering if anyone were to rank these CDR factories in terms of quality of CDR media, how would you do it.

Sony ***
CMC Magnetics
Gigastorage
Multi Media Masters & Machinery SA
Princo
Ritek
Prodisc

*** Sony is thrown in 'cos I didn't know they made their own. I was expecting Taiyo Yudens when I bought a pack of Sony's 'cos that's what my old Sony's were, but it turns out they were made by Sony themselves and I couldn't find a site that had done tests on Sony manufactured CDR's.

From what i've tried personally in the past i would put in the following order, and adding some of my own!

1) Kodak
2) Mitsui
4) Sony
5) Princo
6) Ritek
7) CMC Magnetics

(in reply to tjen)

Just Tried Ritek White-Label discs, wow, i'm impressed. Burn at high speed easily, play back on everything. They work even better than Kodaks on my PS2!

Ritek White Label is number 1 for me now!

(in reply to tjen)

SONY Supremas 700MB 24X rated CD-R media is the one I use. Excellent quality, records @ 24X with ease with my PX-W2410A (except it shifts to 24X at 18mins into the burn instead of 16mins).

Plays back very well on all of my devices (eg. Plextor itself, Lite-On DVD-ROM LTD-163, PlayStation, all CD players/stereo equipment I have tested and all other ROMs I've tested also

Long strategy Cyanine dye used aswell for long lasting life.

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"It's A Sony"

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Edited by - Clint on 02/04/2002 19:51:08