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I love the CD burner. Great for music CDs, and great for software. My Nakamachi cassette deck is really gathering dust now!
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?
I own a standalone Marantz CD630 pro for making my own selection CD, or for my friends. This machine also copies HDCD-encoded CDs without problems, and even the input ADCs are good enough to copy friends' LPs on CD. I usually make this deal: give me your LPs, I'll put them on CDs for you! For my own, I generally listen to LP most of the time, but in the car . . .
Just ordered a custom-configured PC with an HP 4x4x24 CD-RW burner. Got tired of waiting for a DVD-RW that is multiformat and back-compatible. I understand that it is worth the premium to pay for a good brand or you will end up with a lot of shiny coasters. There is no way I will ever recommend/buy a standalone audio recorder.
Yeah, got one in my computer. Still haven't used itwith a 10-disc changer in the car and a 100-disc changer at home, there is almost no need anymore for compilations like I used to make on tapes in the old days. (Got a tape deck in my car toonever used it.)
I mainly use the CD-R in the PC for data. I have been doing some audio restorations (of vinyl) for people who have a few LPs left and no desire to maintain a turntable. To my ears the vinyl still sounds superior but it is a lot of fuss and expense keeping a good turntable in working order
I purchased two CD recorders, one internal and one external. The external CD recorder is not as fast and makes more errors. Also it is time consuming to set up the software, needs 40 MB of HD space. I recommend the internal CD recorder. I have not figured out how to record my albums yet.
Even though it's just another time-consuming gadget (to sit down,record, find the music you want, etc.), I'm going to buy one, and an upgraded sound card. And after all that, I'll still buy my CDs: faster to listen to, presumably better-quality sound. How many CDs can you get for the price of the above combination? Yes, I'gonna waste my money on something to be sitting there and accumulate dust. Maybe I should get a snake-oil product instead. At least it makes good conversation.