Pioneer Pdr-609 Cd Recorder Issues

[LONGHAULTRUCKER]

Hello,

I've been using a Pioneer PDR-609 CD recorder for many years now and it's suites me just fine however it's been ating weird and wasting alot of my time and I'm very frusterated and confused about what is happening. I was wondering if any one has had some of my symptoms with other brands of cd recorders of if this unit is know to act up.

Let me Explain what my problems are "this unit only uses the audio cd's marked with the symbol for use with digital audio" I have had it plugged into a 400 disc cd jukebox style changer via an digital fiber optic cable. without any troubles as it has a syncronized recording feature that works great.

I've bought 2 spindles of CDR's made by Memorex: one was the black all uses and the other was the music cd's they both insert and and que up for recording just fine but i've noticed that with the black cd's I can record and finish the recording "finilize"

The music CD's will record a full album then stop at the end and then read NEW DISC or REPAIR and it can't Find the Table of Contence so it turns out to be a waste of time and CDRs

I was wondering if anybody else has experianced Troubles like this?

What are the possibilitys I got a Defective Spindle of CDR's I think that I got 15-25 out of 50 to work correctly .

I cleaned the eye on my unit and saw nothing that could be a problem inside it.

Thanks for any suggestions

Paul Diener

[slylock]

I have the same problem. The problems began with a new stack of Memorex blanks. I am wondering whether the new blanks, which say 40x, have damaged the unit, analogous to the way high speed DVD blanks can damage Pioneer DVD recorders.

[slylock]

Also, the unit can still record to CD-RW just fine, CD-RW seems unaffected by this problem. I think CD-RW uses a different laser than CD-R, so maybe that laser has been damaged.