Topic: Marantz CDR300

[ftower]

Has anyone started using this portable CDR.  What were the results
Will it hold up to field conditions?

[jpschust]

problem- you are limited to 74-80 minutes, shorter than most 2nd sets.  also you have to make track markers on the fly.  also you have to EAC to seed the stuff.

[greenone]

A buddy of mine in NYC uses one and loves it. Of course, this is a guy who swore he'd never go DAT because analog tape flips give his recordings "character", so when his second D5 died, he went straight to CD recording.

[AdamZ]

I thought I read, too, that the unit has to be laying flat.  I interpreted that to mean it cant be standing on end like we'd stack the D5's?
Any truth to that? It kept me from getting one.
adamZ

[F.O.Bean]

I thought I read, too, that the unit has to be laying flat.  I interpreted that to mean it cant be standing on end like we'd stack the D5's?
Any truth to that? It kept me from getting one.
adamZ

i heard that too!!!

[super-phat-al]

you could invest in 99 min CD-Rs.  I dont think that would be more expensive than a DAT.  I dunno seems like too much trouble to me.

[ftower]

I just got one. So far so good.  It also doesn't like to operate right from the cold.
The laser will form condensate when it come in from the cold and needs to warm up
and not have moisture on the laser.  I takes about a minute to change disc.  Also
need to finalize the disc when done.

Thanks and Good luck all

[Scuba Jeremy]

I've had problems with my home CDR deck from time to time. You could try and Finalize the CDR and write the TOC, and for some reason, the data would not burn, leaving you with a coaster. If I missed 80min of a show because the TOC did not burn, I'd be mighty pissed.

I've heard this same problem can happen on MDs, but knock on wood, this has never happened. I've only had this problem with DATs once. My SCSI drive would not read one DAT I put in there because there were some funky IDs written at the start of the tape. It was an old tape, don't know if that was part of the problem.

DAT seems fine to me. I mean, doesn't one of these decks cost just as much as a used DAT?