Who makes a good CD recorder?


Who makes a good or decent CD recorder? I am interested in making compilation CD's to sit back and listen to on my new Bryston BCD-1 player. In the past there were a number of CD recorders on the market. NAD made a CD recorder but it was only on the market for a year or two. Now there are but a few CD recorders on the market and all are very inexpensive.
hobbyist_and_reader
Actually there aren't many made anymore. Due to, I would say mainley, to what Mlsstl points out. However if you prefer a stand alone CD recorder as I do. The last one I bought was a dual well Denon that is no longer made but if you Google it there are (or were) a few new available. I have another one which I bought years ago a Pioneer Elite that I use to record vinyl or off of my Ayre CDP. To be quite honest I don't hear "much" of a difference between the two. My thought was the Ayre was a better transport than I would find in a $500 dual well Denon. Well the Ayre/Elite recorded disc sounds slightly better than the Denon. I haven't tried using the Ayre with the Denon so I can't tell you if it is the transport or the recorder that gets the credit for the "slightly better" result. In addition to the Denon CDR-W1500 I have at the time I bought it,(1 yr ago) Sony, Yamaha and Tascam were still making CD recorders. And I am sure there a few more than I found at the time. Hope this helps.
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the denon in my system works quite well and should not cost much if you can find one.

if you will just be recording tracks from cd, the computer option is best. windows media player does it all.

i use my recorder mainly for recording from analog sources on my system, like vinyl these days since adding a pc based music server.
I have had a Philips 765 CDR since 1998 and it has served me well.Ditto the above posts on using the correct media,CD-R Music.If I were wanting to record CD's today,I would do what Mlsstl suggested and use a computer.Just a thought.
Here's the best stand-alone recorder I've heard: Reality Check CD Audiophile Grade Duplicator from George Louis; gsLouis@gslouis.com. It only copies at 4X
so they take about 12 - 15 minutes each. It somehow makes the copies sound better than the originals (bumps instead of pits, or some such thing -ask George). Of course you've heard about his UltraBit Platinum CD treatment that is Stereophile recommended as a best buy tweek (it is and not subtle). I own and use both but otherwise have no association with Mr. Louis. (But tell him Truman/Atlanta sent you..it couldn't hurt.) Good stuff. Enjoy.