I'd like to buy a cd recorder . Please help.

Not many made anymore I have the Pioneer Elite PRD19 see if you can find a used one. It has a real good A-D converter.

While it's nothing fancy, i purchased a TDK "audio" burner from Best Buy a while back. I bought this based on TDK's reputation as making great "bang for the buck" puter based burners, although i'm sure it is built for them by someone other than the people that build the puter burners for them. It has served me well and was about $250 on sale.

While this unit is probably not nearly as high of quality as some other "audiophile approved" models, it didn't cost that much either. Given that i'm only using it to make duplicates for use in the car or to record concerts that are broadcast via FM or satellite, it was a great investment.

As a side note, "audio" burners WILL make copies of copies, which i've heard is sometimes hard to do with a puter based burner. Like anything else, i'm sure that there is a way around this, but you don't have to worry about that OR any of the other copy protection that is currently being used on commercial discs at all with an "audio" based burner. Disc's that have sent my puter CD system into a loop have burned just fine on the "audio" burner.

If i was interested in an "audiophile grade" burner, there's a specific Pioneer model that is rumoured to be VERY good. Can't remember the model and i think that it is discontinued, but if that was your desire, i'm sure that i could dig up the info for you. Sean
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Since you already have a burner on you PC, I would suggest you save the money on a CD Recorder and get yourself some good cd/burning software for your Computer Burner and try and master the options that the software has to offer. There will be so much more you can do with the music files once you transfer them to your PCs hard drive before you burn them to CD’rs.

TASCAM makes a dual-well machine that includes a cassette deck and a CD recorder. A friend has one of these and it does a perfect job of transferring cassettes to CD as well as recording from vinyl and has a direct digital link for duplicating CDs. Not cheap -- around $6-700 if I remember correctly -- but a great unit.

I agree with sweetseat. If you have a good soundcard in your pc you will get good results.I have used this option myself. I also purchased audio restoration software called diamond cut 32 the cost was $99.00 and easy to use.The possibilities you have with this is remarkable, you can restore your records tapes older cd's and mostly any audio source like new or to your liking.The options you have with this software just to name a few you can add the sound of tube warmth or dynamic range or take the hiss out of your tapes or take click and pops out of your albums. At the time I purchased this you had a free demo that could be downloaded to try out www.enhancedaudio.com