Korgscrew
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Posted: Jan. 28 2005, 11:12 |
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Apogee make CDR blanks (amongst other things). The colour isn't a reliable way of telling, as there are now CDRs which look virtually the same in colour as pressed CDs (the silver appearance of CDs is, by the way, because they're pressed from a thin piece of metal - aluminium when they're silver, gold in the case of audiophile gold ones. That's stuck to a polycarbonate disc, which is on the playing side, and covered with a protective lacquer on the label side - CDRs also have the protective lacquer layer, if they didn't, the data would just get worn away and you'd be left with a clear disc. CDRs have an extra layer of dye over the reflective layer which allows them to be written - rather than making holes in the reflective layer, as with pressed CDs, the CD writer just makes dark patches in the dye).
Apogee discs are really only used by professionals (of course, not exclusively - anyone can buy them, but you won't find them in any old supermarket or electronics store, only in pro media suppliers). That would give more credibility to any claims that it might be a demo copy, although only slightly more (like I said, anyone could buy them - it just makes it a little less suspicious than if it was, say, Dixons' own brand or something like that! ). As it's a CDR, however, there's no real way of telling whether it was an original CDR acetate/demo or a duplicate - they'd both look exactly the same. Promos, acetates and demos do all tend to come basic photocopied booklets and the like, so it wouldn't be hard to make a fake one...
It depends where you got it from, really. If you had it before the album was released, then it's unlikely it was created from tracks downloaded from the internet, as the demo versions really only became readily available a year or so after the album came out. That's not to say that someone didn't have them beforehand, but I've not heard of it.
If it was given to you, rather than sold for a high price, it's more likely genuine - people who go to the trouble of making fakes tend to do it to get money (though not always, some might do it to trick people...but I'm not sure they'd create a fake acetate before the album was released, using tracks from the actual demo - someone doing it as a trick would be more likely to put one together with Mike soundalike tracks or something like that).
The value of 600 could have been Rainer Münz's discography site, where he lists a slightly later acetate as being worth 600DM (somewhere around 300 €).
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