Best quality digital recorder??


Just retired and got hi speed digital cable service installed (does that make me a 'late' adopter? : - ) thrilled with the overwhelming choices of channels for classical and jazz and the rest. I belong to a regional library and they seem willing to provide a super selection of CD's and DVD concerts - so - I'd like to take advantage of a "great" digital recording unit as I'm fussy about sound. I still have my old Nakamichi Dragon and older unique Wollensack cassette recorders but haven't used in years and want to get the recent digital equivalent of the Dragon. As I hear new stuff on Stingray I'll order the album from library. Seems I'm going back to younger days ; - )
ptss

Showing 3 responses by lowrider57

Ptss, are you looking to record TV thru your cable setup plus record DVDs? If so, most people use a hard drive such as this
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JQOQCD0/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_img?_encoding=UTF8&colid=29XG41GAZ363K&coliid=I2KW1M201467YR

This Panasonic is more versatile
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DMR-EH69-Region-Recorder-110-240/dp/B0031WLDWS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1424879252&sr=8-2&keywords=Panasonic+DMR-EH75V[/url]

These are used for home entertainment and the media is stored on a 1 Terabyte hard drive. As others have said, to rip a CD, simply use your computer drive.
Maybe i'm not understanding, but you want to rent a CD and make a copy at home, yes? The process is to play the rental CD in your computer drive, use a ripping software, then insert a new audio CD and load the file from your computer onto that disk.

The quality is every bit as good as the original, in some cases better. If this is what you are after you would need some instruction and advice on the best ripping program.
Ptss: good advice from Zd.

primarily I'd like to record Classical including Opera,Chamber music and solo instumentals-guitar,piano,harp,flute,violin and Jazz- and from the best sources, CD, DVD or Blu-Ray. I'm hoping to preserve the sound quality.

I'd say about half the members here are are doing just that and building libraries on their hard drives.