If you record a disc digitally from the hard drive, that music gets deleted from the hard drive. The CDR-HD1000 is SCMS compliant, meaning that it will not allow you to make second-generation digital copies. You can also record direct to a CD-R or a CD-RW from an external source. For example, the unit copied the same album from the drive to a CD-R in 8 minutes. As one might expect, recording straight from the unit's hard drive is considerably faster than cloning. To clone a CD, the unit stores the source disc to its hard drive, prompts you to insert a blank CD-R or a CD-RW, then copies the songs from the hard drive to the destination disc (it took only about 14 minutes total to clone a test CD). Most audio CD recorders offer maximum 4X recording to CD-Rs and 2X recording to CD-RWs, but this unit is capable of doubling those numbers.
Other DARs can look up the song information on internal or online databases, so this misstep is a big disappointment.
In those frequent cases, you'll either have to live without titles or manually enter the information. When a disc containing CD Text information is inserted, song titles are shown unfortunately, a vast number of discs does not contain this data. Songs can also be organized into playlists and can be faded in and out, combined, divided, and erased, which makes constructing a mix CD a very easy task. This is a boon for audiophiles who spurn lossy compression codecs but a major bummer for just about anyone else. When you record music onto the CDR-HD1000's drive the songs are stored as "virtual discs." But 20GB translates to only 30 hours of audio, since the music is not compressed before being stored on the hard drive. Music can be placed on the CDR-HD1000's 20GB hard drive only by putting a CD in its tray or by recording a disc in real time through the unit's audio inputs-again, you cannot transfer audio from the Internet or from your PC. A clean-sounding headphone jack with a volume control resides on the unit's front panel.
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We also appreciated the unit's generous audio connectivity options on the back, you'll find one optical digital output, one coaxial digital output, and one analog stereo output, plus a matching set of inputs for every one of those outputs. The HD1000's three-line display isn't huge, but it shows an ample amount of information. Pressing the Copy button allows you to toggle among menus for ripping the CD to the Yamaha's hard drive, copying the disc to a CD-R or a CD-RW, or copying music from the hard drive to a CD-R or a CD-RW. As it turns out, nothing could be simpler. Next, we stopped playback and gave the unit's CD-ripping and disc-burning features a whirl. That leaves you with an excellent-performing CD burner with jukeboxlike functionality.
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Unfortunately, it lacks many of the features that today's DARs offer, including PC connectivity and MP3 support. While it looks like a standard component CD burner, it has a 20GB hard drive that gives it digital audio receiver (DAR) aspirations. Yamaha's CDR-HD1000 is one of those products that's a little hard to categorize.
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