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Have CD Recorders changed your listening habits?

In the last couple of years I've gone through several consumer grade CD Recorders, and have finally acquired a Marantz Professional CDR500 recorder, (and BTW, I love this machine-- easy to use, well built, and excellent digital copies). I set copy protection to "on".

In my case, making CD-R compilations, and listening to them instead of the commercial CDs is becoming pretty common. Example: Awhile ago I purchased all 8 newly re-mastered (JVC 20Bit K2) Creedence Clearwater Revival CDs, and from them put the 22 best tracks (my opinion) on a SINGLE 80 min. CD-R, and now pretty much just listen to the CD-R. The CD-Rs are cheap, easy to make, and sound excellent. Another good set to compile would be the new Simon and Garfunkle re-masters, IMO-- gotta' buy them first though.

I've also made many compilations by mixing complementary artists songs together, ie Jacinta, Diana Krall, Shirley Horn, and Holly Cole smooth jazz ballads-- this is a Dyno-Supreme CD-R, IMO. How about Alison Krauss and Allison Moorer?

I've found that CD-R burning actually promotes my purchase of MORE commercial CDs by doing this as I'm always looking for complementary music/artists. I'm NOT interested in music piracy though. What do others think of this (maybe controversial) subject? Cheers. Craig
garfish
garfish OP
1,840 posts
 
Hi Doug; I had a TT for about 3 weeks a year ago and I did burn a couple of LPs to CD. I used the tape loop out(s) on my pre-aqmp as a source-- worked well. Of course I still ended up with "pops and ticks" on the CD;>)

As long as your CD player has digital out terminal(s) (preferrably coax, but Toslink would work), you can connect it directly to the CD burner, thus bypassing the CD players DAC. The CDR500 has just about every kind of input/output jacks you can imagine including XLR. If your CD player does not have digital out, you'd have to go through your preamp tape loop out to analog in on the CDR500.

But you really don't have to go through those kind of hassles to record CDs as the CDR500 is a "dubbing"-- two drawer CD recorder where the right drawer plays a CD and the left drawer records it-- very very easy to use.

Also, when the CDR500 "sees" a 44.1KHZ signal, it will bypass the built in Sample Rate Converter (SRC) for a more pure signal. Good Luck, and Cheers. Craig
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dweller
2,152 posts
 
I'm very tempted by this technology but will wait awhile -maybe they'll bring out a 24/192 or SACD/DVD-A recorder.
ramstl
342 posts
 
"Hey now" Jond!

I bought one a few years back to do the same thing. However, CDR is not a viable archival medium. Therefore, keep your cassettes and DAT tapes. It is just a cheaper an easier medium to trade and store.

BTW, I been taping live shows, Dead and beyond, since 1983. If you are interested in a trade or so e-mail me.
kthomas
911 posts
 
They have for me - I make copies of many of my CDs and load them up into a set of Sony 555ES changers. Not the utmost in audiophile quality, but not horrible and perfect for hitting "Random" - very much like having your own radio station. It doesn't replace critical listening nor the desire to listen to whole CDs, but sometimes I don't want to do either of those things. I have about 700 CDs in the changers and the list is growing.

One of my favorite music purchase is the Rhino compilations (Best of) CDs of music from decades past. Perfect for filling the changer with. I have probably bought 200 CDs a year the past few years (of all types) - that number will go WAY down if more of this copy-guarding continues to proliferate. -Kirk

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