A CD recorder for archiving LP's?

forget all the others look at ebay every day and if your lucky you could bit on a hhb 800 profecional cd recorder, dont buy the 850 or the 830 only the 800 the recordings from lps will bring tears to your eyes, i found one for 550 thats about a quater of what it use to cost, by the way use apogee cd blanks good luck

I'm using the Alesis Amsterlink 9600 CD burner. It's a pro unit and can be found online for less and $1K. Won't find at an audio store. You need to goo to a musical instrument shop. This deck includes a hard drive and a CD burner. I record my LPs into the hard drive at 24 bits/96khz. Then I create red book CDs from the new high resolution master. Excellent quality and better than an original CD version of the same material. This approach was highly recommended by TAS.

Al

Archiving LPs on CD is folly. (sorry, it is!!)
The LP will be playable 50 more years from now, as good as today. Your CD will be useless: folks are having trouble getting burned CDs to last a few years... let alone a lifetime (this RANT does not include manufactured CDs where the pits are molded into the plastic, just the CD burner variety)

Ahhh ignore my comments about Archiving LPs... Returning from the 'other planet' I was temporarily on, I see you are just asking about Cds for using in your car... Duh I am a moron...

I actually agree with one of Elizabeth's comments. CD-Rs can become unplayable after a few years. Also transferring 1000s of records is a very time consuming process. You'll have to record, edit (add stop/start index points), burn and then produce labels indicating the names of the albums/songs. Count on it taking nearly 2x the running time of the record. I would be wary to commit the amount of time needed to complete such a project if the final storage medium wasn't permanent. The Alesis Masterlink is an excellent machine for what you want to do, but I would strongly suggest that you burn a full resolution back up disc and transfer them to a computer hard drive. That way you'll have two copies 24/96 plus the 16/44 disc for normal CD playback. You can't be too rich, too thin or have enough back up copies.