Maxell 10-Pack CDR Recordable Media 80min for Music (347998) CD-R Storage Media
Written: Dec 18 '06
Product Rating:
Pros: Quality and performance, speed of recording, durability
Cons: Price
The Bottom Line: The Maxell 80-Minute Music CD-R discs are a good choice for music recording. They are well-made, reliable, durable and can be recorded at high speeds...
dkozin's Full Review: Maxell 10-Pack CDR Recordable Media 80min for Musi...
If you have a computer or a standalone CD burner and prefer listening to CDs at home over to MP3, you obviously need CD-R media. I frequently record music on CD-R discs (mostly making copies of music CDs and sometimes burning music CDs from MP3 files purchased online). Because of this, I buy a lot of CD-R media (both general purpose and music CD-R).
General purpose CD-R media works in computer burners, whereas CD-R Music discs can be recorded onto using both computer CD burners and standalone music CD recorders. I got this 10-pack of Maxell 80-Minute Music CD-R discs as a gift about half a year ago. I have used all of them.
The Maxell Music CD-R discs came in slim jewel cases of good construction. The jewel cases are well-made, open and close smoothly and make it easy to remove or insert the disc (slim cases are generally worse in this regard than regular jewel cases, but take up less space).
Usage
Although the primary purpose of buying Music CD-Rs is to be able to use them in standalone music CD recorders, they work perfectly fine if you record music on them on your computer CD burner. I use recordable and rewritable media in two of my computers using NEC 2500a was well as Philips DVD8801 DVD-/+RW drives. The former is rather old (something like 3 years) and its lens might be getting dirty. I discovered that I started having problems recording on all types of discs lately, including excellent DVD and CD media. Still, I recorded a couple of these Maxell discs on it successfully before I switched to another burner.
I switched to Philips DVD-RW drive in a Dell computer I bought recently. Using the Philips, every time the Maxell disc was recorded successfully at speeds exceeding 24x (in less than 3 minutes) with no errors reported by Nero 6 after data verification and no playback issues in the aforementioned DVD drives (both of them), Philips DVP642, Panasonic portable CD player, CD players of 2006 Honda Accord and 2004 Infiniti G35.
The music sounded very good (exactly as the original CD) with no skipping or hiccups. The discs are 80 minutes in capacity and work well for copying of store-bought CD-Audio, making compilations or recording music using MP3 or WMA files downloaded online (make sure you select Music or CD-Audio in your burning software, not MP3 CD).
The Maxell disc's back surface is coated and you can write on it using a felt-tip marker, which I do. The discs survived staying in my car on sunny days with no problem. The jewel cases are well-made, open and close smoothly and look good as well.
Bottom Line
The Maxell 80-Minute Music CD-R discs are a good choice for music recording. They are well-made, reliable, durable and can be recorded at high speeds. But if you do not use a standalone audio CD recorder, general purpose CD-R discs will be cheaper and will work as well.
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