Best CDR for DAT CDR ?


Prices have come way down for professional CDR units. Anywhere from 500 to 2k gets a nice CDR machine. Alesis offers a unit with a hard drive that will hold 5 hours of digital audio. It can then be edited on the hard disk, the tracks rearranged, and then recorded to the internal CDR.

Does anybody have actual experience recording from DAT to CDR with any of these units (Tascam, Marantz, HHB, Alesis, Sony)? any recs on best unit out there?

thanks,
Carl
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Showing 1 response by dollysowner

I have done copying from a Panasonic SV3700 to an HHB CDR800. Because the Panasonic has a reputation for having high jitter, I ran the output through a jitter filter (a GW Labs DSP), and used AES/EBU connections throughout. I master CD's using Mitsui gold disks.

All I can tell you is that the results are great. What I particularly like is the ability, when copying to the CDR, to insert track numbers and use the fader function to add spacing between the tracks.

If you then want to make volume copies, you can use your PC. I use an external high-speed CD burner (32X max), with the DVD-ROM as the source disk and Easy CD Creator 5 as the software. The burner cost $130 and the software was about $75. Copies are indistinguishable from the original, and I can burn a full CDR in about 3 minutes. Your actual burn speed will depend on your computer, because there is always the risk of what is called "buffer underruns" (i.e. the buffer runs out of signal because the computer is doing something else). Easy CD Creator has built-in buffer underrun protection. It also has built-in software for making CD labels and jewel box inserts, which is very easy to use.