Talk:Master recordings

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In regards to the Master Recording information. A manufacturer that was recently contacted said that the "Gold Master" does refer to the color of the disk. More specificaly, the metal used in the disk.

When CD's first came out, they were primarily coated in gold. As CD's became more and more popular they also became cheaper, using a silver coating and some don't even use metal anymore, they use silicon.

When manufacturing a CD, there is an acceptable ammount of information loss (approx. 160 errors) to stay within Red Book specifications. While using convertional store bought CD-R's may work just fine, a gold disk burned at single speed will most likely be a more reliable choice.

The greener a CD-R appears, the cheaper it is!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.78.240.237 (talk) 16:22, 14 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

The article has weak areas and needs attention. I have spent sometime cleaning up, adding info about the digital format (Are we in the 70's now?) and erasing confusing definitions. However, the tone of the last 3 sections may need to be more encyclopedic than written in a personal colloquial style. This is why a section has been tagged for clean up. If someone deletes the tag, he/she may state the reason here. Failure to do so and I will regard tag deletion as a disruption. Jrod2 18:07, 24 October 2007 (UTC)Reply