Most of the Phillips CDRs do not have SRC (Sample Rate Converter) built in them. You will probably have to use another piece of equipment to convert the 48kHz to 44.1kHz. The best thing to do is try and record just you talking for a few seconds on the end of a tape in 44.1kHz. Try and transfer that to the Phillips and see if it will recognize that signal. If not, the input is not functioning properly.
Hope this helps...
Brad K.
This sounds hard to believe to me. I had and still have one of Philips earliest CD burners, the cdr870. I also had for awhile and sold a Marantz pro burner (cd630??) that was made for marantz by Philips. Both had sample rate converters built in. It seems to me to be a pretty important basic function, and seems odd that Philips would have chosen to delete the SRC function on later models.
Both of these burners had a switch to choose analog input, digital coax input, or digital optical input. Be sure you've chosen the digital coax input. Also, the Philips deck automatically reclock every signal to 44.1k, including both incoming 44.1k signals and 48k signals. The Marantz unit had a choice for the re-clocking option and also had an option for a 44.1k direct mode (as someone mentioned) that would not reclock a 44.1k stream, but wouldn't recognize a 48k stream. Be sure not to use this direct mode if you are sending a 48k stream.
Guess I should have stated "most" Philips burners do't have SRC. Just stating problems we had with two Philips burners (different model #s) that friends had owned a few years back (wish I could remember the model numbers). After many different trials, we finally contacted Philips about this and they said that the two burners that friends owned did not have built in SRC. Apparently, some of their models did, and some didn't. If I remember correctly, all of our problems occured in about 1999. I have no idea where Mark's model fits in. Upon asking Philips about this (back then), they said if it does not say anthing about SRC in the original manual, it was not included. I have no idea if they all have them now. As far as the pro Marantz burner goes, all "pro" burners that I have heard of have built-in SRC (of course, there may be exceptions I don't know about from years back).
As far as running an analog signal out and then back into the burner by analog inputs, of course the internal AD will set it directly to 44.1kHz.
I will try and do more research about the Philips burner's model numbers and see what I can find. Seems like something like this should be stated somewhere in the FAQ section for future questions...
Brad K.
P.S. Happy belated B-day Todd...