Customer Reviews

Maxell CDR80M Recordable CD for Audio CD Recorders

5 star:		(20)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Buyer beware: this is no longer the same product. Maxell has recently changed their audio CDRs. Formally, they were manufactured in Japan; now they are made in Taiwan. All the older Maxell discs would play in EVERYTHING. However, a large percentage of discs in this new CDR media are defective. The new discs will no longer play in my Panasonic boom box or in my Honda car stereo. Worse, some of these CDs will fail to play in anything after a few days.

I started burning my own CDR's 5 years ago when I finally got a stereo-unit CD burner. I've mainly only been making mix CD's for my friends and compilation CD's to trim down the size of my extensive CD collection. By far, these Music CDR's from Maxell are THE BEST out there! Over the years, I've had very few problems with them, whereas with other brands I can't even begin to list the problems I've had without getting dizzy from the sheer astronomical number of problems.

The only problem I have, is that these CDR's are getting harder and harder to find. 4 years ago I was able to pick up 10 packs of them(in standard-sized jewel cases, which I prefer) at any Walmart or K-Mart in my area. Now I have to resort to searching for them online. I want to stock up on them before they are completely discontinued, and I highly suggest that everyone else out there who's interested in TOP-QUALITY CDR's do the same!

I have used Maxell Music CDR's for several years now and find them superior to any other brand I have tried. They play easily in all of my CD players and the sound is crystal clear!

My original review is below. It still stands if you may have some of these hanging around from 2004 or before. Shortly after I wrote this, though, Maxell went to pot. I was throwing away more CD's than I was burning.

It became so frustrating that I switched to Fuji. These days, I would say that Fuji All Purpose are the best; hardly ever any malfunctions, and no data loss as of yet. They also seem to work fine in any CD recorder.

So, while Maxell used to be great (I used them for cassettes all the time back in the day), they decided at some point to cut corners rather than make a product customers like and can use reliably.

At this point, change the five stars to one.

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For me these have been the best CD's on the market. I basically used this brand because they were the ones I generally used when transferring my albums to cassette. The same quality continues.

I personally never liked using Fuji or Sony recording media in the past. TDK wasn't bad with cassettes; however, my record with CD-R's with them has been 25 wasted discs out of a spindle of 50. I have so far used hundreds of the Maxells (this line and their others) and have only had one or two discs I had to discard due to errors.

Also, all the ones I made a few years ago still sound great.

These are the best CD-R's for both price and performance.

maxell has been one of my trusted use for blank discs for longer than i can remember.

up until sometime in 2005...when maxell changed their discs.

heres the difference

the 2004 model has the maxell guy on rhe left, and the cdr/80/700 tihng on the right. on the top it says maxell in big letters. also if you feel the background, it is a whole lot more stable. it doesnt chip easily. also the plastic used was not scratched easily.

the 2005/2006 model is a whole lot worse. it says cd-r onl eft, highlighted. on top of that it has maxell in small letters. on the right it says 80/700 and the maxell guy is right below it. the top of the disc is obviously used with cheaper material, and it scratches easily.

another thing noticeable from the two is burn errors. ive had no burn errors at all with either of the 2004 models (regular or music). on the 2005 model at least 80% failed.

also when using nero express i tested imation and sony cd-rs just to make sure my recorder was ok. imation had a 10% fail rate and sony had a 0% fail rate...my recorder works fine.

also, i tried burning at slower speed with no better results.

why would imation and sony work on my computer and maxell wouldnt. because maxell cd-rs are garbage. avoid at all costs get imation sony or get maxell but only if the discs look like i explained on the 2004 modle becuase those were literally the best cdrs ive ever owned.

I used to buy these all the time. They were made in Japan and had a bluish dye to them, and when you held them up to the light, you couldn't see through them. I never had a bad burn.

The newer ones are now made in Taiwan. They have a silver dye and are see-through when held up to the light. These CD's suck. Don't buy them.

These discs won't record in my audio recorder or my computer burner and are worthless. I tried ordering what I thought was the original CD-R Music discs that were only for audio CD recorders and not for computers and they substituted these worthless things. I am in a bind to find anything for my audio CD recorder. If anyone knows one that will still work let me know. The place that substituted was not Amazon by the way.

I have a stereo burner, and the Maxell Audio CDR's are by far the very best! Memorex, Sony, etc. work about 30% of the time! I end up throwing so many of them away!?!?? Wish the Maxell's were not so hard to find?!! For years, Maxell has made amazing audio products. I even remember Maxell being the "state of the art" cassette back when I was in high school!

Never seem to get many errors w Maxell and they are printable with the Casio Disc Title Printers.

The Maxell CD-R Music CDs work perfectly in my Sony CD recorder - which I use to record LP Records on to CDs. These are the most reliable CDs for the Sony Recorder.