Philips CDR880

Pros: High-quality direct CD recordings, flexibility, features, ease-of-use
Cons: Price, recording speed

...I record CDs on both my PC and on this device. To me, it's for different applications - the PC does the quick and dirty mix thing far faster.

The Philips CD recorder mentality is more like... remember when you recorded tapes that meant...

Pros: makes cheap high quality cds
Cons: expensive

This in my mind is the best cd burner. I think it might be a little over priced but I got my money out of it. It is nice because me and my friends all like the same music and we commonly by the same cds. But now with the burner we bought we save a lot...

Pros: Compact size
Cons: Mechanically Unfit

I highly recommend against buying this product. I bought and returned two of these units purchased from Buy.com. Granted, they were refurbished units, but both had exactly the same problem -- the CD drawer opened once, and then never closed again....

Pros: Can make "mixes" of cds you already own. oooh ahhh
Cons: waste of money

I think all these cd recorders that are coming out for stereo systems and such are a waste of money. Why spend hundreds of dollars to take cds you already own, take songs from the cds and make a "mix" when you can buy a computer and a cd...

Pros: I bought cheap on second hand market and i can now archive my tapes!
Cons: pain in the butt finding disks for it [least until you read this!!!!!]

Ok I found em'! MEMOREX MUSIC CDR. [the ones they sell at wal mart with tiny little squares printed on them] so far so good! no problem finalizing recording or otherwise! and yes they are 80 mins!!!

Pros: High quality recordings
Cons: Worldwide no blank discs available anymore for this recorder : it's a very big mistake!

Very easy to make high quality cdr recordings.
The only BIG mistake philips made : this deck works ONLY with cdr AUDIO cdr's 74 minutes. The deck doesn't accept 80 minutes cdr AUDIO cdr's (which are the standard now). You can't find any new cdr's anymore...