In article writes:

: As the turntable/CD Player/dual cassette deck stereo dies (worthless Aiwa
: hunk of junk, the cassette decks died within months..) I find myself
: wishing there were a device that combines these elements with a CD

There exists at least one:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/6908/

Where's the turntable?

: Recorder. Pop your vinyl on the turntable, press a button, and voila! A
: CD! As easy as making tapes from your albums!

http://www.kabusa.com/frameset.htm?index.htm


Where's the turntable? Where's the CD recorder? What question do you
think you're answering with these useless links?

To answer the original poster, nobody makes a single unit that does
what you want. There are turntalbes, there are cassete players, there
are cassette + CD players (which won't do you much good) and there are
CD recorders. Plenty of components that you can put together to get
where you want to be, but nobody has integrated such a system into a
single box.

I might add that it can be a pain to make a good CD of a vinyl record,
or more accurately, a CD that's comparable to a commercial CD. The
short explanation for this is the lack of "CD Mastering" when you
simply copy a record on to a CD. It'll play OK, but there will be one
problem you'll notice immediately - the CD isn't as loud as the rest
of your CDs. Another problem will be with the placement of the track
index markers. Most CD recorders have the capability to automatically
create a new track when there's silence in the band between cuts on
the record, but if there's surface noise, it might get confused and
write some extraneous tracks, or if the pause is too short, might miss
one.

It's relatively easy to make a CD that's essentially the equivalent of
a cassette, with no indexing, but people have come to expect that if
it looks like a CD, they'll have the ability to play individual
tracks. If you want this, it will take some effort.


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