I'd like to burn some cd's .....need your opinion!

[esme]

Which brands work best? Sony, Maxwell .....etc ??

TIA!!

[Markel]

I keep some Fuji's around for anything that really matters.

Otherwise, I often use KHypermedia (a decent brand that I often can get for a good price).

[esme]

cool, thanks ....i'll look into both!!

[DarkFury]

I use Riteks from SuperMediastore.com

good and cheap.

[Bires]

I use Riteks from SuperMediastore.com

good and cheap.

to both the brand and the store.

[bachviet]

My Memorex is decent. I got them for free a long time ago. CD-Rs are hard to come by for free anymore.

[MikeD]

Never had any problems with good ol' Maxell or Memorex. It's more in how you take care of them after they're burned than the brand you buy.

[Paymaster]

KHypermedia is cheap, but you get what you pay for. I've got an entire spindle of dead ones at home. Search the forums here, because I know I responded to another user who was complaining about a dead spindle of K-hypers...

Of course, for the two or three dollars that I paid, I'm not too upset...

[zero2dash]

Keep in mind that no matter what you get, if you're making audio cds (and using standard audio cd players), some players are VERY picky with media. I've seen it more in car head units than anything, but I have seen an occasional dvd/mp3 player reject discs.

Nowadays I will buy "Music" branded cdrs (I usually go with Memorex or Maxell because both of them still use long term dye) to use in audio players and I just buy...whatever's on sale for pc cd-roms etc. (also usually Memorex or Maxell).

Sony media is crap; don't buy Sony. Sony puts this garbage on their packaging about using an "Azo layer dye" or something and (if you use Nero Drive Speed to look up info on the media), it's just standard short term (ie crappy) media, yet they still label it like it's better...and they add another couple bucks onto the price. The only non-music cdrs that I know of that use long term dye are Verbatim but I believe they even switched over to short term dye.

Short term vs long term dye - well, you can google it if you want more info but it's primarily (in a nutshell) that long term dye uses thicker dye in the writeable layer of the disc, vs short term dye which is thinner and (sometimes) harder for drives to read. You can easily tell long term vs short term dye by looking at how dark the bottom of the disc is; long term dye is very dark and usually dark blue, whereas short term dye is very very light, almost a greenish-yellow & you can usually see straight through it.

Hope this helps.