Gold CD's Test pressings or Masters of which the mass production of Compact Discs sold are made from, these have a Sheet with them with numbers on. The data on the Master is burnt into the CD deeper that on a CD-R.

Gold CD's CD-R Compact Discs are made for other reasons, and do not have a Sheet with them.

CD-R does Not as a lot of people think mean a CD Rom or multimedia release.

Beware of fakes, as the price of Computer CDWriters is falling 100's of fakes are now on the market.