The unfortunate truth is that incompatibilities between certain drives and certain manufacturer's CD media exist. Although not common, it's something you need to watch out for. In general, the thing to do is get whatever media the manufacturer recommends. They were the first company to make all gold CD blanks. I bought a ton of Mitsui discs when I got my drive, and they all worked flawlessly at every speed.
Speed is an issue here.
Some media that works fine at slower speeds won't work reliably at higher ones. Certainly good enough for the 4X speed I use. On the Yamaha drive, I've heard multiple sources report that discs written at 1X speed have considerably higher error rates than 2X writings. As far as I know, they're only sold by mail-order distributors of such things. You can't get them from any retail store I know of.