Ive never bought any Taiyo Yuden Cd-R`s Before,And Really Dont Know wich is better?? Ive always bought store brand,(Memorex,Maxell,Sony Ect...) and the Discs have always ended up being Crap.Top Flaking Off (cd rot) Ect...If The Top Gets Scratched Then The Music on The Cd is No Good. I Did Find the White Inkjet Printable Cd-r`s to be More Durable On The Top With Scratching But If Those Disc`s get Wet Then The Top Is Ruined Anyway.I Found out the Hardway.
Anyway Ty`s Are Expensive and i tried looking up info but cant find much,So Please Feel Free To Give Your Opinions.!!
Btw These will be for Everyday Music Cd Playing,In The Car,Home Stereo Ect...
Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs will not be any more durable on the upper surface than any other CD-R. The so-called "hard coats" printed onto the uppeer surfaces are generally no harder than the protective lacquer applied to cover the silver alloy or the silk-screened print. However, having all three coatings--lacquer, hard coat, and silk-screen print--does increase resistance to scratches by a factor of 3.
Ink-jet printable coatings are also equivalent to a hard coat. Even better protection would be an adhesive paper label or polyester label designed for optical discs. Although paper labels will damage a DVD+/-R disc, they are OK for CD-Rs as long as they are good quality labels designed for discs and are applied carefully with accurate centering. Once a paper label is on a disc, the disc's copy speed should be reduced by at least half the rated speed just to protect the bearings in a drive because no label is perfectly centered. That's not a problem for audio CD-Rs because they spend their playback lives at 1X; but it is a problem for data CD-Rs that drives want to spin fast to get faster access to data.
