My first bronzing discs

I picked up the Robert Mann/Stephen Hough recording of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas on ASV a year or more ago. I got them used and they weren't recent pressings. The performances were recorded and issued in 1989 and I suspect these are 1989 pressings. I finally got around to listening to them today only to discover that the top (labeled) sides are turning, well, bronze. One of the three discs is especially bronze, yet all three discs play. What's going to happen? Are they rapidly going to become unplayable? Any hope that ASV has issued un-bronzing versions? (Now I am grasping at straws.) Should I quickly have them copied?

-david gable

I'd back them up. I suggest you also hold your (other) disks up to a bright light, and see how many have tiny holes in them, and back those up too. 'With careful handling your cds should last a lifetime'. Yeah, *their*

My experience with this is that PDO is still offering to replace defective discs, even those that appear to be no longer in print. I sent a couple back to them about 6 months ago, discs that had long been out of print and I received fresh pristine discs in the mail.

The Camiroi (in R. A. Lafferty's science fiction stories of the 1960s) might well make an interesting legal interpretation of that. Marketer claims, 'This product will last a lifetime!' Consumer buys product on the basis of that claim. Product eventually fails under normal use. Consumer complains to the constabulary, and Marketer is immediately executed. ;