Looking stylish with its burnished-aluminum front panel, the Denon CDR-W1500 CD recorder and player offers dual drives capable of simultaneous playback--for, say, taping one CD to cassette for the car while you listen to another--and features audio CD-R and CD-RW compatibility in both drives. The component records only to recordable CDs designated as being for "audio" or "music"; standard computer/data CD-R/CD-RW media will not work here.
 The Denon CDR-W1500 features dual CD drives for simultaneous playback and recording. View larger. |
 Included remote. View larger. |
Denon has endowed the CDR-W1500 with separate outputs, labeled "CDP" for the playback drive and "CDR" for the record drive. By routing these outputs to separate amplifiers (with a choice of analog or digital transmission for each drive), you can listen to each independently to hear different source material in different rooms. The CDR-W1500 offers the convenient "scan rec dubbing" function, which lets you scan for the tracks you want before you record them.
There are 2 record modes: digital and analog. Digital recording lets you make perfect copies of discs or parts of discs. The simplest method is internal dubbing, from drive 1 to drive 2, at either 1x (normal) or 2x speed. Alternately, you can feed your CDR-W1500 from an external device--a minidisc player/recorder, a DVD player, or another CD player, for instance--through an optical or coaxial digital-audio input. You can copy a whole disc or merely one track.
With analog recording, simply feed the recorder an audio output (stereo RCA) from a cassette deck, VCR, PC, or DVD player, and start recording. You can set track IDs manually or the recorder will insert them every time you pause or every time it sees "black" (no signal) from the input.
Onboard Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) prevents you from making a digital copy of a disc that is already a digital copy, but you may still make an "analog" copy of such a disc by recording it via the analog audio inputs (the track IDs may not be quite as accurate this way, but at least you can record it). Stellar features include internal relay play (drive 1 to drive 2), random play between drives, track programming, and sample-rate conversion for use with sources such as DAT (digital audio tape) and DSS (digital satellite system) having sample rates ranging from 32 to 48 kHz. The recorder's display offers compatibility with English-language CD Text information, and you can also add text to the discs you create.
What's in the Box
CD recorder, remote control, remote batteries, a user's manual, and a warranty card.
Product Description
Dual Drive CD+CD-R/RW Recorder ¿ Drive 1 is a CD player with HDCD playback capability; plays finalized CD-R/RW discs ¿ Drive 2 is a Music CD-R/RW recording drive ¿ Double speed CD-R/RW dubbing ¿ Bit-for-bit CD dubbing - HDCD compatible ¿ Scan Rec dubbing ¿ Make CD dubbing ¿ CD-TEXT input and display ¿ Sampling frequency converter accepts digital inputs 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz ¿ 24 bit D/A conversion ¿ Fade-in/Fade-out recording function ¿ Synchronized recording function ¿ 2 digital inputs; 1 optical, 1 coaxial ¿ 4 digital outputs, 2 optical and 2 coaxial (1 set per drive) ¿ 1 set analog inputs and 2 sets analog outputs ¿ SCMS ¿ External monitor/digital converter ¿ Make CD recording function automates recording and disc finalization
