AA Capitole MKII/ CD Burner to use with it


I'm looking for a CD recorder that records to the Red Book standard. I had a very nice Marantz burner, but the Capitole could not read the CD-R's recorded on it.

Would any Capitole MKII owners comment on what model/manufacturer they have where they are having success with the AA Capitole. Thanks in advance for your help.

(By the way, my 20 year old Nak CD Player 1 will play them and my Sony SACD player will play them, but the Cap won't.)
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Showing 1 response by ejlif

My Capitole Mk 2 has been able to play TDK,Sony,Fuji,Mitsui, Gold and Apogee CDRs. These CDRs were burned with a Wadia source and a Tascam CDRW5000 recorder. It seems like a lot of the problems with CDRs being readable stem from ones that were burned using Computer burners.

One strange glitch I have encountered is that I get a sort of clicking sound periodically when I initially insert a disc. At first I thought it was only with CDRs, but I have also encountered it with regular CDs.

I have also had a situation where I am unable to track backwards on the remote, the only way to get to a lower track number than say 9 would be to enter the number from the keypad on the remote.

Also the time counter get confused very often, for instance saying that the remaining time for a track is 167 minutes.

It also seems rather odd the amount of wobble that is visible with the puck that rests on the disc.

Personally I think this is a bunch of crap, a 9k player should perform perfectly with no problems. My Wadia 860 is in a much higher league as far as build quality and electronic stability, however the Capitole sounds better than the Wadia.

I feel pretty uneasy about the amount of problems that are apparent with the Capitole Mk 2, it seems like they might have released it to soon before they worked out all the bugs.