"Martyn B Tindall" wrote in message
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A mate of mine says his CD player has packed up and blames a faulty
CD-R given to him by a mutual friend. The same friend has given me
lots of CDs, and many of these suffer from skipping/jumping/noise. I
suspect it's because our friend uses the cheapest available blanks.

I'm concerned because I've just spent a lot of money on a CA Azur
player and don't want to put it at risk. Is my mate talking nonsense?
Any thoughts?

I have seen a CD disc disintegrate into a thousand pieces and ruin a CDRW
drive.

In article ,
Paul Dormer wrote:
A poor quality CDR will put extra strain on the CD player. It will
need to work harder to track the data on the disc. This could
theoretically shorten it's lifespan, by how much I don't know! If
anything, this is more likely to be a concern with older players,
built before low reflectivity CDR was commonplace.

But these commonly won't play CDR anyway.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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In article ,
Paul Dormer wrote:
Some older players are 'borderline' capable of playing CDR, depending
on what media your using and how well it has been burned. My old Arcam
was like that. Some days it would reject a disc it played before (but
not without having a damn good crack at it) and visa versa.

Yes. My oldest one currently working is a CD104. That plays most. Later
'80s early '90s ones seem to barf the most.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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On 11 Nov 2004 21:22:38 GMT, Paul Hutchings wrote:

(Martyn B Tindall) wrote in
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I'm concerned because I've just spent a lot of money on a CA Azur
player and don't want to put it at risk. Is my mate talking nonsense?
Any thoughts?

Thanks for all the replies to this one.

MBT


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Martyn Tindall
Leeds, England, United Kingdom

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