Terapin MCR-TX3300 2-Disc CD Recorder

Pros: For $100 it can do alot.
Cons: Disappointing audio quality. Some features poorly implemented.

I have been looking for a consumer cd recorder for quite some time mainly for use in my recording studio. I record to computer and have found that after a tracking session it can take some time to actually burn cds of the rough mixes for the customers ...

The unit has LAN connect and USB master port (so you can download from it into a portable unit, w/o a computer involved.) But both are not supported by the current version of firmware. Also, turns out MP3 encoding is only at 128 kbps, which is tape/radio quality (by LAME standards,) but not full CD quality. Tried to connect it to my laptop via USB -- what a nightmare! Never got it to work. By *far* the worst USB situation I've run into, and I've done USB stuff w/ SmartCard adapters and printers and trackballs and digital cameras; never got it to work at all, just gave up. Tired going from CD-DA to MP3 format. Did two CD-DAs. Resulting MP3 CD was defective!! MP3 was recorder wrong!!! (Sounded like Martians chattering!) First CD had 9 tracks, 1 ~ 8 are fine, 9 is garbage, as were all tracks on second CD. I did both in the record-all-tracks mode and just let it cruise; who knows what went wrong!