I tried using my computer burner for some stuff and it just wansn't good enough. If you're serious about making copies on CD-R's, get some Mitsui Gold CD-R's and a good CD-R machine to plug into your sound system. Computers are havens for EMI and those budget CD-R drives don't do justice to the original. Since you'll be going from analog to digital, you should look at something with a good A to D converter. Wadia makes an outboard A to D unit, but all cd-recorders come with internal converters... Depends on what kind of quality you're looking to get.
burner with s/pdif RCA or balanced imputs ?
I have a Dell computer with 1.6.Mhz P 4 ,512 Meg ram ,48X speed cd,250 Meg zip drive and a card deluxe sound card and a creative labs sound blaster live value to make the beeps. I want to record My records to cd for the girlfriend . My first question is playing vinyl take the line level output from My preamp to the analog input of the card deluxe this than goes to the hard drive I think . Can I send this back to the card deluxe to be sent out in a S/pdif or balanced format to a burner that will take a balanced or s/pdif imput? Or do I have to use a USB port to output the signal from the computer to the burner ? What is the sound quality of a USB output to a S/pdif or balanced output of the card deluxe ? I also would like to know if I can take the balanced or S/pdif output of My theta jade transport to the digital input of My card deluxe and then take the output of the card deluxe S/pdif or balanced to a burner or does all this stuff have to be done with a USB cable or not, thanks for any help . What kind of burner should I be looking for and try and keep costs in the real world for the burner. I will not be using the cd in the Dell computer as I know the quality of same that is why I want to use external eq. . All the imputs and outputs on the card deluxe are on the back again thank you for any help with this.