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difference between CD recorder and PC burner

Has anybody had the chance to compare CDs created with a decent CD recorder and those created with a CD-R with a good sound card on a PC. At some point I will be replacing my Nak cassette deck with either a CD recorder or a CD-R on my computer. If I get a CD recorder, it will have to be a dual well recorder since I don't want to have a CD player and a CD recorder - I like things simple. The other alternative is just buying a better CD player and then buying a CD-R and a good sound card. Whenever I want to record I could just run a cable from the tape out of my receiver over to the sound card of the computer. I will most likely be recording more LPs than CDs, so whichever method I choose should have a good ADC on board. I don't need absolute high end sound (that's why I have scaled down to my Fisher 400 tubed receiver) but I don't want crap either. The CDs would be played only in the car which has a pretty decent sound system (although cassette based at the moment). I would appreciate hearing comments from anybody that has experience with both choices.

Mike
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Sogood51: If I buy one of the pro decks, I should be able to use the same CD-ROM disks that PCs use. I am just not sure if all CD players can play them back. But it sounds like using the HDD to store all the songs I want to record and then using SW to arrange them and burn them sounds like a good way to do this.

Kthomas: How can you config the CD burner without using the sound card. I need the ADC in the sound card to convert the analog LP into digital for the CD burner.

Dogeatpuppy: Probably a third of the tapes I make are compilation tapes. Can you just stop and start the recorder like a cassette deck? Is there a way to tell the recorder where each new track starts so that it makes a TOC?

Thanks for the responses guys. It will probably be a while before I make a decision. I am pretty sure that I cannot sell my Nak cassette deck for anything near what it is worth, so I may hang on to it for a while longer (at least until it needs to be repaired again). Besides that, I will have to buy a CD player for my car and my wife's car if I get rid of the cassette deck. I guess another alternative would be to find a CD changer that can be controlled by a separate remote. Then I could use the extra inputs on my casstte player to provide the sound.

Mike
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