It's been 7 or 8 years that I have this reader-writer. It is equipped with an excellent converter. And one can, with a little ingenuity record regular cdr. Just before you start burning to bring the tray and manually change the audio cdr-cdr a regular. Simplicity itself. The solution of burner says "hi-fi" has the advantage of operating a much better burn than most ordinary PC burners mainly due to the optical input and the quality of the converter when the source is not an audio-cd to copy but to other media, midi, digital or analog.