There are also digital and optical cables if your equipment can handle that. You need two pair of cables (in and out-like a tape deck) for the recording end of it, which would be very expensive if you are in the few hundred dollar range (that would be three cables you would then need at that price). You may say I am backwards, but most of your CDs are real CDs and you want to spend as much as you can on these cables. This allows you to use one pair of high quality audio cables for the listening, and cheaper cables for the copying. One thing I like about this deck that all of the home CDR decks do not have is the separate analog outs. If you were using a CDRW, you could delete the newest track simply. I did make a compilation, but remember with a CDR if you mess up or bump the turntable or there is a skip, it is all over for that CD. If you have a computer, this is definitely the route you want to take. The home recorders are much harder to use. Songs can be dragged from different CDs and your CD layout is done before you burn your disc. I have not compared which sounds better, the computer CDR or the home recorder, but the computer is much easier to use when making compilations. The best thing to do is to make your disc with a CDRW, and then copy it with a computer CDR on your computer. One problem with these home CDR decks is that they take audio CDRs, not computer ones. When you make a CD, it counts down backwards, so if you are using a CDR and not a CDRW, it will help in that you will know how much time is left for that last track. I have only made one CDR so far and have not experimented with a CDRW, but the disc sounds fine. It usually goes for a bit over 300 dollars. I bought my unit from Circuit City as a demo for 200 bucks, with a 30 dollar rebate, so I can not complain about the price.
Anyhow, it has (other than that) worked beautifully :) If anyone out there has some input about this, lemme know pleeeaase! In the meantime I will keep experimenting, rather than jump to a conclusion about it. What has happened instead is that the CDR disc lays all the master tracks down under ONE track heading (you get a bunch of songs that you cannot selectively skip through)! But that could just be due to the fact that the 'master' disc I used was a rewritable which contained tracks that I manually laid down from various original sources the CDR disc (and/or the deck) may not be able to sync off manually timed discs. The only thing I have not gotten it to do properly (yet) is, to burn a source CD in the "CDsync" mode-you know, such that the CDR disc lays the material down nonstop w/ all the tracks numbered accordingly. "I just bought the Philips CDR880, used, as a private purchase from someone who was selling it for somebody else-always a chancy thing ! Anyways, it has thus far performed great the finished CDs that I have created sound as good as the sources, to my ear.
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