How to put records on CD's?


A freind of mine called me and asked if I could put some albums on CD's. He has a guy at work that has some old big band records that he would like to play in his car(and I would love some new music). I hadn't even considered this before, but now my interest is peaking. I have a Music Hall MMF-5 with the Shure xmr15 cart. I do have a computer at home with a Cd burner. Can I make CD's with this equipment or do I need a realtime CD burner? Anyone had much luck with this?
jdodmead

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I have done similar to what Don does, with different, higher-end software that I can access through my work. The results are very good. Then, I bought a Denon CD deck with burner that my son uses as a playback device and burner. I run it through my rig sending the analog signal straight into the Denon which has a feature that automatically creates a new track for each song based on "quiet time" between songs. If one wants to manually intitate a track break, it is also easy to do. For good clean records without a lot of surface noise, I find the quality of the resultant CD's to be equal to, if not better than, those burned on the PC, albiet no noise reduction capabilites.

If you have low noise LP's to burn, the $500 retail ($390 street) cost of the Denon may be cheaper than investing in software.