->       72 minutes?  Point and click?  You must mean a cd recorder for
-> the PC?  Consumer stereo recorders limit you to 60 minutes on top of SCMS
-> copy protection (because the music industry has a bunch of a$$holes 
unning
-> it who don't believe in innocent until proven
-> guilty; they must think this is Mexico.) I thought the PC ones were
-> incompatible with regular CD players.  Is this not true?
-> nonsense.  I also think the consumer stereo version has much higher priced
-> blanks--on the order of $15 a piece (as if the TAX, copy protection, and
-> 60-minute artificial limit weren't enough, you
-> couldn't possibly copy original CDs any at profitable rate at that price
-> anyways!  So why the limits?  New CDs are cheaper at the local
->       The PC drive doesn't have these limits, AFAIK, but I thought I
-> read in Stereo Review that PC audio discs won't play on a regular CD 
player,
-> which makes them useless, unless you have your PC drive plugged into your
-> main stereo or something.  Has this changed?
PC based burners are totally red book compatible and the audio cds will play 
on
any audio cd player. There is no SCMS. Blank media is in the high $6 range
depending on quantity. It has always been this way. And like John Allen, I 
have
yet to discern any audible difference from CD "master" vs. copy.
->       If not, I might be interested in one to back up LPs with (such
-> as the 13 year old, out of print, Tron Soundtrack I bought recently that's
-> in excellent condition.  I don't want to put wear on the thing, so I want 
to
-> record it to CD and keep the record as an archive
-> master).
This gets a bit trickier from a fidelity standpoint - it is one thing to do a
digital-to-digital copy, but analog-to-digital is a bit trickier. If you plug
your line out of your LP/Preamp chain into the line in of your standard SB16, 
I
suspect -you- WILL hear a differance. If you xfer from vinyl to a good DAT,
then do a digital transfer to the HD, the loss would be much less. OR 
urchase
one of the higher quality "audiophile" sound cards (good chipsets, polyprop.
caps, rca jacks et al) as a "step inbetween".
Lastly, by the nature of the beast, audio cd burns are "one shot" - you 
annot
add tracks in seperate burn sessions, unlike data. Same thing applies to
multimedia sessions that use red book audio as well.
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