Shiny Silver CD-R - 100-Pack Spindle

Works perfectly for Dreamcast games! Initially I had 5 discs fail to write, but it turned out to be the cheap Rioddas drive I had purchased. Since I switched to an HP burner, every single disc has been a success without a single error even at 24x write speed. Phenomenonal quality discs! The top of the disc is a plain shiny silver, and the bottom is a blue lacquer so it’s easy to distinguish top from bottom. These are absolutely perfect for retro Sega fans and worth the extra money. 10/10 Thank you Taiyo Yuden!

Works great for Sega CD, much better than Verbatim!

Excellent quality CD-R discs that are the best I've found for burning audio CDs with CD-Text information. The top surface is shiny silver and completely blank. You must be careful to identify the recording side! By comparison the recording side has a pale blue-green tint while the other is pure silver.

perfect for burning music you own

I bought a spindle of these in 2019 and they were flawless. Every disc was perfect in the burning, and the resulting sound. I just bought a new spindle of the exact same product in late 2022, and how the mighty have fallen! Every other CD-R gives an error after attempting to burn the first track, rendering the disc useless. With a 50% hit rate, they should be charging 50% of the price, but they sure ain't! Avoid like the plague - I'll never buy these again. March 2023 update - I was wrong. It is not one out two discs that is defective, it is two out of three discs that are defective. Who is giving this garbage good reviews?!? Buy at your own risk, better yet, buy mine. This manufacturer shouldn't be in business, and Amazon certainly should not be selling this trash.

Best CDs for music.

Taiyo-Yuden is made in Japan with the same care and quality of a Honda or Lexus. They are also one of the first producers of digital-optical discs, and it shows. The compatibility of this media has been perfect! I have bought TONS of blank-media over the years and I have always been used to the fact that some of the media will be flawed or will have recording errors. I throw the disc away and cross my fingers hoping the next disc will be okay. Sometimes, a different brand disc will work fine on all my equipment, but not on a friends. Again, with Taiyo-Yuden, this has never been the case. T.Y. discs have ALWAYS worked on any equipment my friends, family, or myself have ever tried them in. I have NEVER had flawed discs or recordings on Taiyo-Yuden products. And if you can sacrifice the silk-screened label showing off the brand name and allowing you to label your discs in a perfectly straight manner (I do admit this is one of the reasons the product received only four stars, I guess I am just an O.C.D.-case perfectionist and a show-off), MAKE THIS BRAND ONE OF YOUR FIRST CHOICES! The cost of this unbranded media saves you money and gives you more value. Ironically, this makes it one of the CHEAPEST choices as well. Also, the blank face of the disc allows those of you who like to, like me, use colored Sharpies to decorate the discs (Hint: a pretty, hand-decorated mix-CD often gets even better results, when given to "someone special," than a hand-written card or letter!). As far as a difference you can hear: the audio-quality of these discs in high-end CD-players is very good, as it is in my after-market car stereo (built for sound-quality, not a "look at me" boom-boom system), and every other audio system I play them in! I will often record my pre-recorded CD albums on CD-Rs to listen to on an everyday basis; this way, I can loan my albums to people without the originals "getting lost" (I have one friend who, when approached by me about a CD sitting on his car-seat that I once owned, would always say, and I quote "No, that is my CD, I have the box and everything!") or risk getting damaged when left around or in my car. On high-end equipment, these CD-Rs are virtually indistinguishable to the originals, alloying me to leave the original recordings protected safely in their original boxes and out of harm's way. BUY THE BEST AND SPEND LESS THAN AVERAGE? Sounds like a great value to me! ADDITIONAL REVIEW INFORMATION: BY THE WAY! The following statements involve DVD-R media ONLY, I have NOT experienced any problems with JVC/Taiyo-Yuden CD-R media AT THIS POINT! It is also important to point out that the new computer I mention does not recognize TDK brand CDs either! I DO need to point out that when I started buying the "JVC" labeled Taiyo-Yuden media, I started to have some problems. The first JVC labeled spindle of T.Y. DVD-R media had FIVE discs that did not burn correctly (the second, THREE)! I DO tend to be a bit of a perfectionist (trust me, NOT in a good way), and five out of a hundred is only one bad of twenty, but I have never had five discs out of a 100-disc spindle go bad from ANY manufacturer. I have only used two-hundred JVC labeled Taiyo-Yudens and EIGHT were bad, this is the worst record of any manufacturer I have used with the exception of TDK. Admittedly, I only had a few bad TDK discs in my history, but my new computer rarely even recognizes there is a blank TDK disc in the drive; and when it does, the recordings ALWAYS fail, EVERY TIME. The JVC/Taiyo-Yudens that failed, failed on this same computer (however, NONE of the Taiyo-Yuden-ONLY discs EVER failed on this computer). My friends have also told me five of one-hundred is very lucky compared to their experiences and I burn HUNDREDS of discs a year compared to them so I still recommend Taiyo-Yuden more than any other brand (MAM-A/Mitsui is trusted as the finest-quality blank-media on the market, but until the JVC/T.Y.s, I had more discs fail by MAM-A than T.Y. Also, they are SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive, I DO use MAM-A for the most important recordings of music, video, and important digital data). Because Taiyo-Yudens cost much less than MAM-A/Mitsui, go with T.Y. first. If you wish to record audiophile-quality music for audiophile-quality equipment, or back-up live performances or family videos, spend the extra money on MAM-A/Mitsui, but for general everyday use, ONLY use Taiyo-Yuden!

These are probably the best quality CD-Rs I've ever used. I would venture to say that these are the best CD-Rs you can get without going crazy and buying those expensive "archival grade" discs. No coasters so far, and I seriously doubt I'm going to get one at all from this pack. My last pack of Verbatims were so bad that I was starting to wonder if my drive was dying. Not only that, but you know how you can see the difference between the burned and unburned parts of the disc when you look at the bottom face? With my previous pack, I could hardly tell at all where that line was. On these Taiyo Yudens, it's plain as day. Relief - my drive isn't broken! I just had a crappy pack of CD-Rs! I'm not saying that's necessarily an indicator of quality, but it's just an observation and a gut feeling. I've put these discs into my car, my old school game consoles, my set-top DVD players (music CD), and an old boombox. These discs read flawlessly. My disclaimer, however, is this: I typically burn at 6-8x. I may burn a disc or two at 52x and report back what I find. Maybe this is just an old habit necessitated by crappy CD-Rs, and may be unnecessary with these CD-Rs. I'll say without hesitation that I will buy another pack when I go through these. Optical media seems to be dying a slow death, and there's a lot of crappy CD-Rs out there. But these Taiyos are truly a gem. I just hope that my next pack will be as good as this one.

Perfect for burning backups of my console discs, I find burning them at max speed works better than low speeds as other people have recommend.