i have some CDs that i burned over 14 years ago that have started to fail. they were burned to be in the car, so they were exposed to high temps, i am sure.
none of my purchased CDs -and if memory serves i switched from vinyl to CD format in 1988 or so- has ever failed. then again, i have had most of them stored in boxes since 2007 or so. the only problem with some late 80s or early 90s CDs is horribly sharp DDD recordings, just as the problem now is some horribly overdriven recordings... ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine running Ubuntu 12.04 + LMS 7.7.3 on VMware Player System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- Creek Destiny Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- KEF LS50 Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> AudioEngine5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101549 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss