The CDR800 CD-Recorder is a fully professional machine at an affordable $2,195 price. With CD-R blanks now costing less than equal length DAT tapes, it is starting to make sense to "burn" a CD after a long day's work in the studio rather than making a DAT copy. You could play it in your car and a lot of more other places than a DAT tape.

The CDR800 is a three-space, rack-mounted unit with balanced XLR analog inputs, unbalanced RCA jack inputs and outputs, AES/EBU digital input and both optical and S/PDIF digital I/O's. Direct digital copying from DAT tapes or other digital sources is made a "no-brainer" by way of the Sample Rate Converter. The SRC automatically digitally converts any sample rate from 32kHz to 48kHz (+/-3%) over to the CD standard of 44.1kHz. Also making your life easier is the built-in indexer that converts DAT Start ID's to CD Track ID's. Indexing is usually done in a Digital Audio Editor ahead of time or manually "on the fly" while the CD is burning. Furthermore, digital transfers from DAT's, MD's or CD's are also blue skies by virtue of the synchro dubbing mode.