Dave/Guys; Thanks! What about recording levels? If you are using different source CD's with different recording levels it tends to make good segways difficult. I went to CC today and all they had were two decks that had no means to - + line inputs. They both were over $500.! For that price I can live with my old Nachamichi cassette deck. The problem there is if I get a new S2K it doesn't have a cassette deck. Rats! What about source material. I will really date myself here, but I still dig stuff that was made in the 60's-80's.or stuff that is recorded off analog tapes. Byrds, Dead, Airplane and the like. It doesn't sound that great on CD to start with, so further recording can't improve matters.

 

how professional do you want these favorites to be mastered as?

you are talking about decks here, so are you even talking about a CDR in a computer? or are you line-input into the computer? That would be a "bad idea" since it would be digital to analog and then to digital again. Recording levels could be adjusted per audio software if needed. convert the .cda to .wav and edit away.

 

What I looked at today were free standing audio CD recorders.