Who makes a good or decent CD recorder?

SCMS/MEDIA CONTROL
The first few shipments of the CD-RW700 shipped requiring
consumer CD-RDA and CD-RWDA. The original design did not call
for this, it was added at the last minute due to legal considerations
about the CD-R market. All units that shipped after March, 2000
do not require consumer media.
For the older units which required consumer media, the SCMS
code and consumer media requirements have a deep system menu
allowing these settings to be overridden. Since the legal issues
have been resolved, we are releasing the information on how to
reset your machine to use regular media.

The above is from a commercial/pro unit. The SCMS is for home units. This requires the special audio/music blanks. They also call some commercial besides "Pro" usits. A lot of these are re-branded home units, without the SCMS. Link for the SCMS used for home units, switchable on some pro units.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System]

Tascam 9000 Pro Fantastic unit!

Why not just use a computer? My Imac makes great compilations with AIFF burning.

I agree w/ Tan43 -- use your computer. Of course, you'll want a good burner unit like a Lite-On or equal; and good burning software, like Nero or equal.

There is some merit to the idea that CD copies sound better than the originals. The (supposed) reason is that the "pits" in commercial CD's are actually physical HOLES in the metal which refract laser light which can degrade the data retrieval somewhat. Whereas a "burned" copy is exactly that -- and the "pits" are actually just burned "spots" which no longer reflect the laser light, but do not scatter it!

Or maybe I have it all backwards? I can't remember!!
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Dedicated recorders burn with substantially less errors than computers.
I used my Lenovo and upto 30% of burned copies are unreadable and skipping.
Alesis ML9600 makes CDs even more perfect than originals.