Two words spring to mind when using this Hard Drive recorder and they are flexibility and convenience. Yamaha have added a CD Drive to this recorder you can copy to and from. You’ll also find a set of digital and analogue inputs/outputs so yes the recorder can record digital/analogue from other sources such as a digital tuner or Cassette player. The machine can be used as a DAC, connect a digital source to the digital input and hear the resulting output through the analogue connection jacks which is often better than the analogue you would hear on the source itself. Up until now I’ve used my computer systems to rip CD’S but given how convenient the hard drive recorder is I don’t think I’ll be bothering with the computer too much in the future for CD ripping for my personal CD collection. Copying a CD to the Hard Drive is as easy as inserting the CD, pressing the “Copy” button and then pressing the “Play” button to start the CD copy procedure, copying of a CD to the Hard Drive takes around 10 minutes. The copy method I described above is the basic copy method and there are others which are more advanced, you can select the track or tracks you want copied from your CD for example so I’ll get to trying those methods out in time. Each CD copied using the recorder is put into a separate “Group” thus one group per CD. You can switch easily between “Group” and “Track” selection by pressing the jog-dial which toggles between these two modes whilst in playback. Added to this are the skip forward and back buttons thus you can switch to “Group” mode and use the buttons to move between tracks in a group. Editing functions are available to allow the user to put in names for groups and tracks but I have no need for this as its easy enough for me to identify the CD’S I’ve copied over by the tracks presented in each group. You can mark favourite tracks and play them from you “Bookmark List”, unfortunately the recorder only handles one Bookmark listing. The recorder can use CDR or CDF-W discs for recording, pity the recorder won’t handle CD-RAM discs as the Panasonic equipment does. The recorder has a Headphone amp however the amp has problems as it compresses the output sound at louder volumes. Front panel controls are well laid out but I prefer to use the remote control as the remote contains direct buttons to control more of the recorders functions directly along with a numeric keypad with letters. So that’s everything I’ve discovered about the recorder so far, I’ll write to the list as I progress with the recorder.
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