Digital Drive: REVIEW: Philips Electronics CDR-800 CD Player/Recorder by RBP

Model:	CDR-800
Category:	CD Player/Recorder
Suggested Retail Price:	$350
Description:	CD/MP3 player, CDR/CDRW recorder.
Manufacturer URL:	Philips Electronics
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Review by RBP ( P ) on November 11, 2003 at 16:30:33
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I was browsing a local big box store for SACD's and walked throught the open box isle and saw this machine. In my third system (set-up for casual duplication and evaluation in the consumer realm) My CDR 870 is "long in the tooth" so it needed replacement when I found time to do it.

Behold! THere it is, holds 3CD's or even MP3 cd's in the carosel, has a nice remote, comes with a video tape of operation and is well made and quite robust for price point. Being that Philips is one of the inovators of the CD format, I figured, wtf, I will give it a go.

Got it home, paid only 129 open package price in U$D for it, and played a CD. Nice, nicer than the CDR870, close to the SCD-CE775 and it may not be broken in yet.

To make short order of this reading, the machine has a plethera of fetures, analog in, direct, dig in and simple one topuch copy, finalize and record. It makes flawless copys and adds to my dup. system as a nice piece of equipment for seeing what consumer use in everyday life.

I feel even at retail, it is a good value.

At open package price, a steal. I use it for utility sakes and it still, connected to system A is not shabby at all. Overall a great value!

Product Weakness: Not a super refined piece, but above mid fi
Product Strengths: Cost, ease of use, versatility

Associated Equipment for this Review:
Amplifier:	Threshold Stasis
Preamplifier (or None if Integrated):	Bottlehead foreplay
Sources (CDP/Turntable):	CDR-800
Speakers:	Boston AcousticsCR8, Jensen model 10
Cables/Interconnects:	Belden self soldered
Music Used (Genre/Selections):	All, any
Room Size (LxWxH):	30 x 18 x 10
Room Comments/Treatments:	furniture typical space, no excessive acoustic treatment, evaluation
Time Period/Length of Audition:	2Weeks
Other (Power Conditioner etc.):	n/a
Type of Audition/Review:	Product Owner

Product Weakness:	Not a super refined piece, but above mid fi
Product Strengths:	Cost, ease of use, versatility