Hot Deal on Sony Audio CD-R blanks from Staples.com

[leonc]

This week's Staples B&M ad showed 30 packs of Sony Audio CD-Rs
at $19.94 which is an okay price, but nothing hot. I figured I could
order online instead and use one of the various Staples.com coupons
to make it a little better. When I pulled it up on the staples website
I discovered that online, they have them priced at $12.94 instead of
$19.94 PLUS I was able to use a coupon. In my case I got 150 of them
for $54.70 shipped. That makes the audio blanks about the same price
as the better quality data CDR blanks. Seems pretty hot to me since
I usally have to pay about $0.50 each for the audio ones (for my
stand alone recorder).

 

[leonc]

Forgot to mention that the SKU is 453963 and the coupons can be
found at FW.

 

[AirMail1]

Is there a difference between these and 'data' cd's?

I know my sister's phillips burner was not able to 'read' some blank generics I gave her to test.
She said she needed ones labeled 'audio' though I always thought that they were interchangeable.

BTW thanx for the headsup.

 

[polotek147]

Just ordered 8, then used a 20 off coupon, 85~ shipped for 240cds...not bad for sony.

 

[JahWren]

Audio CDR's include a tax that is meant to reimburse the copyright industry for suppossed copyright violations made with those discs. They also include some special bits to indicate that they are fully-taxed CDRs rather than regular data CDRs so that the audio CDR duplicators can recognize them and accept them.
By any rational thought process, you would expect that having paid the tax for the audio CDR you would be fully justified in duping some discs and selling them yourself, but the law doesn't work that away either.

 

[AirMail1]

Jah Wren,
Thanx for that concise info.
She paid a bundle for a pair of Philips burners (these are in a console and not anything like a burner for a PC. (she is a musician and creates music. However it turns out she would still have been better off with a Plexy mounted to her PC)

Air

 

[JahWren]

So, she has to pay the audio-CDR tax to record her own music - just another example of how the copyright industry's arrogance and greed leave the little guy with the short end of the stick.

 

[zqfmbg]

Oddly enough, Canadians don't have the problem. In exchange for paying the tax it is legal for people to make digital copies of music for their own use. Last I heard, anyway.

Soo, I guess that "could" be a hot deal...

 

[lawaris]

I am sure u r mistaken

 

[XFreebie]

i'm pretty sure u can always make urself a duplicate copy of an audio as long as u have the original. just like u make a backup copy of that favorite game so that u can play the backup in ur 52x cd-rom to avoid getting scratches on the original.

 

[mychm]

are we allowed to post coupon codes??? you might want to check out the rules concerning code-posting...
Good deal - I'd hate to see the moderator's reaction if it's not allowed

 

[JahWren]

I'm in a bad mood, so this is probably a little harsh, but sheesh, y'all got some serious reading comprehension problems. My sentence was pretty clear about selling dupes yet all the responses were about keeping them to yourself.

 

[Rally1]

so is there any good reason to use thse over 'normal' cdr's for audio?
ie a physical reason thanks

 

[Salvador]

Yeah.. Do they sound any better than when you record music on a data blank?

Sal

 

[JahWren]

Uh, no. Thought it was pretty clear that the tax and the special bits to enable the standalone consumer duplicators were the only difference.

 

[Muffy]

Why would they sound any better? a bit is a bit, it's all digital. Like someone posted earlier, since standalone recorders are meant for one thing and one thing only, to copy a music cd, they impose a special tax on the blanks. The only blanks that will work on them are the MUSIC cd's . This is a very good price, though I don't know anyone that even has one of these recorders.

 

[kyudrew]

Can anyone identify the place the cds are manufactured? Is it made in Japan, made in Austria, or made in Taiwan?
It looks like the brand name of Cds are not currently important as the manufacturing place of them in deciding the quality of
CDrs. I had 5 pack sony audio CDr pack and they are made in austria. If anyone have any experience about audio CDr, please
comment the quality of Sony (or made in austria) one. By the way, is there any Taiyo Yuden brand(made in Japan) audio Cds available?