What stand alone cdr burner (pro) do you like?

[analog4011]

Give me your thoughts on what you think is the most musical stand alone cdr burner recent or discontinued.
Rick

[johnny33]

I would like to know this also :) so I'll bump.

johnny

[John Carsell]

The Pioneer PDR-509 has done great for me the past 6 years. Haven't compared to one of their Elite models though.

[acjetnut]

I am a big fan of Plextor drives.

[Bob Lovely]

HHB - great converters...

Bob-:)

[DrJ]

I'll second that - love my HHB BurnIT CDR830 Professional. Dead neutral recordings - what goes in is what you hear played back on the disc. Also love that it works with regular CD-Rs and CD-RWs, you don't have to use only the more expensive "music CD-Rs."

See also this thread: http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=17405&highlight=hhb+hoffman

It was Steve's comment about the HHB that prompted me to investigate one, and as usual, he was so right about its being neutral.

[timw]

HHB - great converters...

Bob-:)
I'll second the HHB 'BurnIT' CDR. Nice features , Incl Digital level control!
Tim

[Tony Plachy]

Alesis Masterlink 9600. :thumbsup:

[analog4011]

I am a big fan of Plextor drives.

Does plextor make a stand alone cdr recorder? I also am a big fan of Plextor.

[tps]

I'm thinking of transfering my library of minidisc recordings to the hard drive. Following this maybe I'll get around to the big needledrop project to get some of my LPs onto the computer. Somewhere along the line, maybe I'll even try to dub off some of my F1 format library!

I'm thinking that maybe an HHB CDR830 is the right way to get things into a format the computer can read. And, as I understand it, it will copy the track marks from minidiscs.

My question is: What CDRW media is working well for HHB CDR830 users? Anything I should be aware of before I make the decision to buy a CDR830?

[Surfin Jesus]

it's not officially a "pro" product, but I have used a philips CDR 870 (http://www.usersmanualguide.com/philips/home_audio-video__cd_recorders/cdr870_00) for a decade with no problems

[Metralla]

Does plextor make a stand alone cdr recorder? I also am a big fan of Plextor.
Why do you want a stand-alone machine? Surely a CD writer connected to a computer would give the performance you need plus the flexibility to run EAC to make the copy first.

Am I missing something in your question?

(I don't know of a Plextor stand alone recorder. I use a Plextor external SCSI writer)

[scotto]

I'll second the HHB 'BurnIT' CDR. Nice features , Incl Digital level control!
Tim

I'll second your second.
BurnIt is the home model of HHB's pro CD recorder. It doubles as my player.

[Kent Teffeteller]

Hi,

I prefer (and use) Tascam CD recorders and the Alesis Masterlink series. The old HHb recorders are superb, the new ones have had an alarmingly high rate of defective units and they are finicky about the blank discs used. My home Tascam is the older CD-RW 750. We use the CD-RW 900 series at work. They will work with any CD-R/RW media that will work in a computer. Reliability and build quality is superb and the units are reasonably priced.

[StyxCollector]

Marantz CDR-631. EXCELLENT converters, great sounding machine, easy to use.

It's been replaced by the new CDR-632.

The one Tascam CD-R machine I had was so-so, but the DSD recorder is great (DV-RA1000)

[MichaelR]

The Tascam DV-RA1000 looks like the bees knees at the moment.

I would love one of these..


Michael

[Tony Plachy]

The knees of the bee's knees:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/DVRA1000HD/

TASCAM DV-RA1000 HD, I would like to have one of these. :righton:

[MichaelR]

Wow. 2 channel heaven.

[StyxCollector]

The DV-RA1000 is a good piece of kit. I'm considering selling mine and getting the HD version.

[DrJ]

Love my HHB BurnIT CDR-830 Professional:

http://www.hhb.co.uk/hhb/usa/hhbproducts/cdr830/burnit_front.jpg

At $500, bang for buck that's hard to beat.

Thing is, HHB has apparently taken a quality nosedive in the past few years...mine was made before that happened and has worked absolutely flawlessly, but some more recently manufactured units apparently have not worked as well for some (do a search, there's a thread or two on this on the Forums). I think Steve uses or at least at one time used this unit. I bought mine long AFTER the quality nosedive (not knowing about it) but the manufacturing date on the unit is well before the nosedive, so I lucked out. Maybe there's a lot of these units sitting around in warehouses, worth looking.

Anyway, the "good" ones make dead neutral recordings without a hitch, BUT to add to something Kent mentioned above, really even the older units need high quality, low speed media to work optimally. They say right in the manual that you should use low speed discs, I believe 4x or lower, and that has certainly been true for me - cheap high speed media resulted in some coasters, but I have never had a single problem though when using quality low speed media.

[chevvies]

Love my HHB BurnIT CDR-830 Professional:

http://www.hhb.co.uk/hhb/usa/hhbproducts/cdr830/burnit_front.jpg

At $500, bang for buck that's hard to beat.

Thing is, HHB has apparently taken a quality nosedive in the past few years...mine was made before that happened and has worked absolutely flawlessly, but some more recently manufactured units apparently have not worked as well for some (do a search, there's a thread or two on this on the Forums). I think Steve uses or at least at one time used this unit. I bought mine long AFTER the quality nosedive (not knowing about it) but the manufacturing date on the unit is well before the nosedive, so I lucked out. Maybe there's a lot of these units sitting around in warehouses, worth looking.

Anyway, the "good" ones make dead neutral recordings without a hitch, BUT to add to something Kent mentioned above, really even the older units need high quality, low speed media to work optimally. They say right in the manual that you should use low speed discs, I believe 4x or lower, and that has certainly been true for me - cheap high speed media resulted in some coasters, but I have never had a single problem though when using quality low speed media.

Is it possible you could tell me your serial number, or which ones to look for?

Thanks.

[StyxCollector]

At $500, bang for buck that's hard to beat.


The Marantz 632 is in the same price range.

[DrJ]

I was not trying to slight the Marantz in the least with my comment, in fact had no idea what it cost (never heard one either). Just saying the HHB is a good deal, certainly this seems true as the cost of the Marantz is comparable but not less, right? ;)

chevvies: about dating the HHB, mine has a sticker on the back of it that says it was manufactured in Oct 2004. I believe it was shortly after then that some quality problems began to be reported. Keep in mind though that I'm not sure they are substantiated - in other words, some of the supposed problems could have been due to people using inappropriately low quality media. I think it's a great little unit and suspect even if you got a "new" one if you used good CD-Rs you'd be fine.

[StyxCollector]

I was not trying to slight the Marantz in the least with my comment, in fact had no idea what it cost (never heard one either). Just saying the HHB is a good deal, certainly this seems true as the cost of the Marantz is comparable but not less, right? ;)


List $700, easily found in the $500 - $550 range.

[DrJ]

Which is great, but again no less than what the HHB costs...pretty much exactly the same in fact, so I stand by my "a deal hard to beat" comment. I don't see what's controversial or confrontational in that. :help: