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I have had a cd-recorder in my pc for a couple of years and use it to compile tracks from cd-singles mainly, for use in the car.
We <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?600">reported recently</A> that audio CD recorders are becoming hot items with consumers. How about with you?
For $199 I couldn't afford NOT to have a CD-RW drive on my PC. Besides being able to back up files easily and reliably, I much prefer to be able to leave my original CDs safely at home and use CD-Rs in my car or office audio systems. Not to mention the fact that I like making my own compilation discs. I think CD-R drives are great.
I bought a Pioneer Elite CD recorder primarily to convert LPs to CD. The Pioneer Elite converts from analog to digital at 20 bits. I have also found the 24-bit upconversion performed by the unit (when making copies of "old," circa 1985-96 CDs) very useful. The copies are much better than the originals. Also, because the price of the CD-R blank discs includes "royalty fee payments," copying CDs is guilt-free. "Rare Silk" sounds GREAT at 30,000 feet!
What good is it when I post my response and it doesn't get posted. I would like some explaination of who filters the response, and if so don't count those votes for your surveys. Also what does Sam Tellig mean by "The People" on the question "What would you chage about HiFi..." I think maybe Sam should look to himself for changes not "THE PEOPLE" What an ASS!!!
I bought the CDRW for my Mac with the idea of putting my collection of cassettes on CD, and have found the project snowballing into an avalanche of upgrades: new amp (also for the DVD player), "new" turntables, and the prowling of second-hand stores searching for those albums I always wanted but couldn't afford back then. I've made a great number of recordings, of which maybe two were of the tapes I originally wanted to record. Go figure.
My son is looking at the new technolgies. I have a cassette recorder used to make tapes for long car trips. Several of my son's band members have made CD's for him and he used the old TEAC 360s for his recording. He uses my Denon for recorded music he is interested in sharing. Sound quality is secondary to content for his needs.
Burned my first audio CD on my Sony Spressa CD-RW i.Link, through my Mac G3, last weekend. Popped it in my Linn Karik/Numerik combo and darn if it didn't sound like the original tracks off the original CDs. Not only a great way to back up large files, but what a fast way to select and edit tracks out of my audio collection and make "best of" audio CDs. I'd recomend this for any audiophile.
Some years ago, when the medium was vinyl, I had a Nakamichi for the sole purpose of making records portable. On occasion my thundering herd of three Labrador retrievers will go crashing into the phonograph stand, causing my LP12 to retaliate with gawdawful sounds of protest (as well as me making some high hollers at the dogs), and again reminding me of the impracticality of playing records in moving cars. With CDs being the convenient, go-anywhere, play-anywhere medium they are, I can't imagine why I'd ever want to clone one into another one just like it.