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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
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garfish OP
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Over the years I've had various cassette recorders too, and made many a tape from LPs. But this digital recording stuff is different, eg for some reason it gives me a tremendous sense of power or control that I've never experienced before with recorded music. Maybe it's just because I'm such an old coot that I'm kind of in awe of the technology. I've never tried computer CD burners, and can't imagine doing it-- not being much of a computer geek.

Jeff, glad to hear there is at least one other person that thinks about the use of burners as I do. I believe in paying artists for their work too, and have no interest in downloading music from the i-net. I have exchanged a few CDs with others, but as a result of it, when learning of a new artist that I like, I'll go out and buy one to many of their CDs.

I can appreciate Ohlala's observations too. Being retired, I have the time to fiddle around with recording and making front and back CD covers-- it's a fun part of this hobby. But, like Jeff, once I've paid $17. for a new release, I feel that I have the right to use it as I choose as long as it's for my own personal use. Cheers. Craig
garfish OP
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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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