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- From: mjscott@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Mike J. Scott)
- Subject: Re: Are Record Club CD's The Same Quality?
- Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:16:23 GMT
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- Keywords: Record Clubs, CD
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- In article <Nov.16.16.02.10.1992.28218@gandalf.rutgers.edu> rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) writes:
- >Admittedly, I know very little about the business of setting up
- >a CD plant, but it seems you can cut costs... this may entail
- >not meeting the standards for CD manufacture, though. For example,
- >a "sort of clean" clean room is probably cheaper than a "really
- >clean" one. Then there's the quality of the materials used for
- >the substrate, plastic, and inks. Surely there are different levels
- >of CD quality -- I can't believe that all the CDs which come out
- >of the plant are good. A certain percentage must be below spec.
- >You can save money by not worrying about quality control...
-
- A couple of points,
-
- First, CD's are cheap to produce, I believe in runs of only a couple
- thousand, pressing & printing costs are $1.50 - $2.00 per (CD, case &
- insert). For runs of 1000's, they would be even cheaper. This gives
- some indication of the markup on discs, and why clubs can sell them
- so cheaply.
-
- Second, clubs make deals with record companies so that they pay lower
- royalties per disc because of their immense volumes.
-
- Third, (ok, I lied about only a couple points) I've been told that some
- companies (Sony specifically) will not accept 'defective' disks back
- from retailers because their defect rates are so low. They say that
- usually, discs are returned because of damage which has occurred in
- transit or due to mishandling. I know that some of the early discs
- did have problems, but for the most part, quality of recent pressings
- has been much better. This does seem believable since CD's are used
- as digital storage media (i.e. CDROM's, albeit with redundancy due to
- error correction).
-
- If anybody has better (read: correct) information, please follow-up.
-
- Btw, I've got quite a few club discs and never noticed any problem
- (though my speakers got completely bashed by somebody on this group
- a while ago, so maybe I just can't hear the difference! ;-) ).
-
- Michael J. Scott R.R.I., U of Western Ontario
- mjscott@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca 'Need a good valve job?'
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