Cd-r Colors

Scored a nice old CD player, launched possibly with the first CD player, CDP-101, and it's the "Technics SL-P10"..

I love how this thing presents "itself" to the user.

But, unlike the CDP-101, which played nearly EVERY CD-R I threw at it, this player will NOT play everything..

All my normal CD-R's from today fail on it.. The only CD-R I could get it to read, were the older style blue bottom Verbatim CD-Rs.

Can I even find these anymore? This old player is unique, and I want to use it as my everyday player, until it, like my CDP-101, gives up.

(CDP-101 needs a new motor IC driver chip)

No idea if you can still find them.. I think there were some mods you could do to some of the older players to make then recognize most CD-R's..no idea if that player was one of them though.
There was a thread or two about it on www.diyaudio.com though. Might be worth a search.
I used to have issues with the yellow/green ones,the blue/silver ones usually worked for me.

I can remember in the past having issues with certain CD-Rs on old CD players. I think most decent modern CD-Rs seem to work though? CD-RW was always hopeless.

I couldn't get it to read any modern CD, only the blue bottom old verbatim discs...

650MB too..

yeah the old CDs had a much more distinct track in the ink, you could see it, you could see the lead in lead out rings between tracks, on the newer discs the ink is so faint you have to hold the disc in just the right light to see the tracks.

basically if its harder for you to see it, so is it for the laser.

It's a known fact that new discs don't get along with old players. Few people care because it's becoming a non-issue, what with hard drives and flash memory displacing optical storage (and good riddance, I say), but as you noticed it tends to be a problem for collectors.

The problem you have is that, even if you manage to find some new-old-stock blue-bottom Verbatims, they might well be old enough that they've degraded beyond use.

When the blue discs first came out, they had exactly the opposite problem...players that worked fine with clear CDRs didn't like the blue ones.

Just a sanity check... your new discs are 'finalized', right?

Yes, finalized. With CD-R's, I always finalize since I usually cram them full anyway.