Nexus MP3 Hardware - Aiwa XC-RW700 Dual Tray CD-R/RW Recorder

Overall, the unit has performed well. I use it for straight CD>CD copies (of both commercial and home-made CDs); MD>CD copies, CD>MD copies, and sometimes as simply a CD player. The remote is full-featured and easy to use.

Complaints: The display takes a little getting used to; for example, track numbers and track times have very little separation. You see something like this:
0105:09, meaning track 1 with 509 elapsed (or 509 remaining. depending on display setting). Minor complaint.

The unit is rather slow to fully load CD, another minor complaint. Finalization takes a while. There is no digital record level, a feature I use often with minidisc but wouldn't use much anyway with CD-R. Programmed tracks can be dubbed only at 1x/2x, entire discs you have the option of all three speeds.

For the price, I would rate this unit 4 stars. I'd like to give it five, but for me to give something five stars, it has to follow me around the house and clean up after me ;-)

Oh, one other thing...like most or all non-pro CD recorders, this one employs the hated SCMS. Since I have a nice German-made SCMS stripper, I could not care very much less, but you should realize that your digital copies of commercial CDs will not be digitally copyable without additional equipment. Similarly, an external copy-protected medium will need intervention to be copied digitally using this machine.

I bought it at [store] where they tried to sell me an extended service contract. I declined. No problems yet with the machine (hope that keeps up!).