Philips CDR765 2-Disc CD Recorder
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- Number of Discs: 2
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Philips Recorders: Great Value
Pros
Easy to use, good price point
Cons
Double speed is still slow! Uses Audio CDR
Recommended it?
Yes
The Philips CDR765 is a two-tray, audio CD recorder that is affordable and does a credible, if not spectacular, job copying your favorite CDs.
What makes it special is its ease of use and the fact that you can burn CDs from your collection at double speed thanks to its ?dual deck? set-up. One tray plays CDs, CDRs and CDRWs and the other plays CDs and records on Audio CDR and Audio CDRW.
The process is fairly straightforward. For example, here?s how to make a double speed copy of your favorite disk (with the tracks in the same order as the original).
1) Place the CD to be copied in the right hand tray and the blank Audio CDR or Audio CDRW in the left.
2) Press the ?dub? key. After about thirty seconds the CDR765 has scanned the disk to be recorded and the ?record? light is flashing.
3) Press the ?play? key for the right hand tray and you are off.
Pretty easy!
For those of you (like me) who are into home recording of original music the CDR765 is a pretty cool addition to your home studio. For much less than the cost of a decent DAT machine you can now make CDs of your original music. Thanks to an easy to use front display panel and a very good manual, the process is simple. You can make copies directly from your source (four track or eight track recorder, for example) using RCA jacks. If you do your mixing to DAT, you can connect an optical cable, and by simply changing the source from analog to digital you can make direct digital copies from your DAT machine. One of the great things about the CDR765 and home studio recording is creating custom CDs of your original music and then using a simple program such as HyCD to rip mp3 files and upload them to mp3.com.
It is not perfect technology. You must purchase Audio CDRs, meaning the cheaper and easier to come by data CDR variety (which work for music with a pro burner and the right software on your PC) won?t work in these ?consumer decks.? The same goes for CDRWs. And you won?t want to try and make hundreds of copies of your original CDs ? even double speed copying takes a good long time.
I have had remarkably few errors using the CDR765 ? and those I have encountered (three after making at least 250 45 minute to 66 minute recordings) are, I suspect, due to faulty media rather than the hardware itself.
I?ve seen the CDR765 for sale for as little as $450. I?m very pleased with mine. For the home audio enthusiast wanting to make copies for car or vacation, or the home recording mogul itching to create a masterpiece for family friends and regional record stores, this is an exceptional value.
What makes it special is its ease of use and the fact that you can burn CDs from your collection at double speed thanks to its ?dual deck? set-up. One tray plays CDs, CDRs and CDRWs and the other plays CDs and records on Audio CDR and Audio CDRW.
The process is fairly straightforward. For example, here?s how to make a double speed copy of your favorite disk (with the tracks in the same order as the original).
1) Place the CD to be copied in the right hand tray and the blank Audio CDR or Audio CDRW in the left.
2) Press the ?dub? key. After about thirty seconds the CDR765 has scanned the disk to be recorded and the ?record? light is flashing.
3) Press the ?play? key for the right hand tray and you are off.
Pretty easy!
For those of you (like me) who are into home recording of original music the CDR765 is a pretty cool addition to your home studio. For much less than the cost of a decent DAT machine you can now make CDs of your original music. Thanks to an easy to use front display panel and a very good manual, the process is simple. You can make copies directly from your source (four track or eight track recorder, for example) using RCA jacks. If you do your mixing to DAT, you can connect an optical cable, and by simply changing the source from analog to digital you can make direct digital copies from your DAT machine. One of the great things about the CDR765 and home studio recording is creating custom CDs of your original music and then using a simple program such as HyCD to rip mp3 files and upload them to mp3.com.
It is not perfect technology. You must purchase Audio CDRs, meaning the cheaper and easier to come by data CDR variety (which work for music with a pro burner and the right software on your PC) won?t work in these ?consumer decks.? The same goes for CDRWs. And you won?t want to try and make hundreds of copies of your original CDs ? even double speed copying takes a good long time.
I have had remarkably few errors using the CDR765 ? and those I have encountered (three after making at least 250 45 minute to 66 minute recordings) are, I suspect, due to faulty media rather than the hardware itself.
I?ve seen the CDR765 for sale for as little as $450. I?m very pleased with mine. For the home audio enthusiast wanting to make copies for car or vacation, or the home recording mogul itching to create a masterpiece for family friends and regional record stores, this is an exceptional value.
