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I have Sony's MDS-JB920 MD player. It is great. It has more features than I could possibly ask for and I got it at a very reasonable price.
Copyright issues are a hot item these days, with digital recorders and MP3 files dominating the news. But are audiophiles affected by such things?
I tried for over five years to make decent-sounding compilations of my CDs using a Nakimichi CR-7 tape deck, and I finally gave up. I'm now using a Philips CDR870, and it is far and away better than the Nak. On my system I can't tell the differance between the copy and the original, provided I record the digital input. Recording the analog input is not as good, but still better than a tape deck.
In the past I have lugged my Nak 700 to various venues and recorded live when that sort of thing was allowed, usually at audio club meetings. In all honesty, it sounded as good as recordings of the same events made on both DAT machines and open-reel decks.
With no car at the moment, my need for recording from pre-recorded material is zero. I guess when I get back to a car, a CD recorder will be called for. I used to do a fair bit of live chamber-music recordings on my ReVox, but even it is somewhere in storage, as CDs have taken over. If Stephen Terry from last week's survey happens to read this, I would sure be interested to know where one can get a copy of the computer-based CD file system he called Diskplay.