CD burners

Posted by: quincy on 15 December 2001

I am thinking of buying a burner and had considered the HHB 830.

Any of you cats got experience of such pieces of kit?

AQD

Posted on: 15 December 2001 by Peter C

Any CD-writer with appropriate CD burn software should do the trick

Posted on: 15 December 2001 by quincy

It's a stand-alone rack-mounted burner ... not connected to a computer ... that interests me.

AQD

Posted on: 15 December 2001 by Arthur Bye

Quincy:

I have an HHB 850 (all made by Pioneer I think) that I have used for burning CD's. It works quite well and is suprisingly good as a stand alone CD player (for $1K). I've had it for a year and have burned several hundred CD's. Great for copies for the Car.

For the most part the copies are indistinguishible from the original, depending of the playback kit. I have had several occasions where there have been noticeable downgrades in making a copy. This seems to be resolved by changing the CD blank brand. I have not yet found a brand that is consistently good.

The quality of the HHB unit is excellent and the controls are well thought out. The remote is a bit simple, but it is adequate. Don't like the purple color much either.

A lot easier that burning them as WAV files in the computer and much better results.

Arthur Bye