The Harman Kardon CDR 30 steps well beyond the territory most CD recorders roam, bringing first-rate recording and playback quality under one convenient roof. This versatile audio CD recorder gives you the ability to create custom CDs from a variety of digital and analog sources, including HDCD-encoded discs and MP3 music files. The CDR 30's built-in MP3 decoder plays and decodes MP3-encoded CDs and also creates standard Red Book CDs from MP3 discs that may be played on any standard CD player or CD-ROM drive. A built-in, auto-sensing, sampling-rate converter automatically adapts digital audio recordings at sampling rates other than 44.1 kHz to CD-standard audio when recording from MP3, digital audiotape, and minidiscs. This capability allows direct digital-to-digital recording from most consumer and professional digital sources. During conventional CD-to-CD dubbing, the CDR 30 automatically bypasses the sampling-rate converter.
The CDR 30 copies all digital information contained on a CD, including HDCD encoding and DTS data. In addition, the CDR 30 is the first home audio CD deck that can copy multisession CDs that contain tracks recorded at different times before disc finalization.
To accommodate the widest variety of music sources, the CDR 30 includes a comprehensive variety of digital and analog inputs. It includes three sets of rear-panel coaxial digital, optical digital, and analog inputs; plus there are front-panel coaxial and optical digital inputs. The CDR 30's coaxial and optical digital outputs enable its digital-audio output to be played through the digital input of a receiver or preamp/processor, or a separate external digital-to-analog converter (DAC). Analog outputs provide a standard connection. The CDR 30 also features a headphone jack with level control for private listening.
The Harman Kardon CDR 30 offers a host of features that make recording digital and analog sources fast and virtually foolproof. The CDR 30 performs CD-to-CD-R and C
