Need a good CD burner

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Buck62 said:
1: Not "maybe".... DEFINITELY! I can easily hear the difference.. and I have tinnitus.

2: I've mixed the same song to my Philips deck, and then the Tascam. The Tascam makes the recording sound much clearer because of it's dithering capabilities.

3: MisterQcue has the same two CD recorders as I do, and he will back me 100% on this about the meters. (..as well as everything else I'm saying)

4: No, the Philips units do NOT have this capability... I'm sure of it.

5: Digital fades are a GREAT option to have... especially for the reason I posted.

I'll tell you what, here's my MP3-dot-com page...
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/248/the_mac_brothers.html

The first and last songs ("Doin' Nothin" and "Angel Child") were mixed to my Tascam CDRW700.
All the other songs were mixed to my Philips deck.

Now tell me... can you hear the difference that dithering and better converters makes?

Oh, and the Philips-mixed songs were professionally mastered by a sound engineer who has done mixing for Aerosmith, Chicago, and Peter Gabriel.... just to name a few.

The two Tascam songs weren't mastered at all, they're straight from the unit itself.

Even though the Tascam is actually a "pro-sumer" deck (...I'll concede that point) the difference to my ears is staggering.
I believe it's worth it to spend the extra $300 to get closer to a professional-sounding mix/recording.

I'm just trying to save the lad from making the same mistakes that I made 3 years ago, that's all. ;)
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Not to get into any pissing contest, but $1.62 is absolutely correct!!

I own the same decks that Buck prev'ly mentioned,along with a
Plextor.
Commercial burners, cannot burn Red or Orange book standards
which are used in mastering houses to produce the glass master for production and duplication. 2nd, Commercial burners average
extremly hi BLER's (Block Error Rates) at even 1x,2x or 4x speeds compared to pro decks. Also mastering houses, which use a sort
of Time code sheet to perform T.A.O's (Track@Once) for normilization,etc cannot use this procedure on most c/ds recorded
on Commrl burners.
If U simply want to just burn a c/d for your own purposes to give to fam/friends go for the consumer burners, but if you're looking to present a polished mix for mastering,spend a few dollars more for a "pro"! Believe me,I've been there!!!
 
Red Book is the standard for a commercially manufactured CD from a glass master with a life expectancy of about 25 years under normal conditions before read errors appear.

Orange Book and Orange Book II are the standard used by CD-R burners that mimic Red Book and basically fool a CD player into thinking it’s playing a CD. Though they are most susceptible to damage from sun, heat and humidity, if stored under normal conditions CD-R’s can have a life expectancy many times that of commercial CD’s, if you use quality media. Mitsui gold would be an example of the best media you could buy, however, gold is more reflective to the laser and a player can have difficulty reading data under some conditions, so I'd recommend silver as a safe alternative.

I'd stay away from 'audio only' discs and any platform that deals with the little hairshirts.
 
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