beware of buying "used" CDR players-recorders

The odds are fairly great. FYI, many of the CDR's are purchased by individuals who are into collecting live concerts, which as more and more time passes bands allow you to do.

Anyway, these individuals have large collections that they have transfered their collections from cassette, reel to reel, Beta and DAT to CDR. Also, the trading community is expansive and it is not uncommon to regularly trade 25-50 or 100 CD's at a time, read each month.

If you do the math you can see that a trader can log anywhere from 600 to 2000 hour a year on a machine, therefore, quickly using up the life of the laser.

I would suggest that anyone thinking of buying a used deck should really know the person they are buying it from and feel they are being totally honest about how many hours have been burned. That way in the end you won't get burned.

Let's see, that means someone would have had to have burned roughly 2200 to 2500 CD's. What are the odds of that? Heck, you'd get bored with the machine long before that happened. Sometimes caveat emptor can go too far.

Try www.am-dig.com tell them Ray sent you.

Hi Ramstl; could you provide that site (more specifically) on where to purchase TY blank CD-Rs? I assume TY is Taio Yuden (sp?). I've read that they are supposed to be good blanks. I tried American Digital and could not find a reference to CD-Rs at all.

Good tip on used CD recorders too. Thanks. Craig