Pioneer PDR-W839 manual Additional Information, Handling discs, Storing discs, Discs to avoid

9 Additional Information

Handling discs

When holding CDs of any type, take care not to leave fingerprints, dirt or scratches on the disc surface. Hold the disc by its edge or by the center hole and edge. Damaged or dirty discs can affect playback and/or recording performance. Take care also not to scratch the label side of the disc. Although not as fragile as the recording side, scratches can still result in a disc becoming unusable.

Should a disc become marked with fingerprints, dust, etc., clean using a soft, dry cloth, wiping the disc lightly from the center to the outside edge as shown in the diagram below. If necessary, use a cloth soaked in alcohol, or a commercially available CD cleaning kit to clean a disc more thoroughly. Never use benzine, thinner or other cleaning agents, including products designed for cleaning vinyl records.

Wipe lightly from the	DonÕt wipe the disc
center of the disc	surface using circular
using straight strokes.	strokes.

Storing discs

Although CD, CD-R and CD-RW discs are more durable than vinyl records, you should still take care to handle and store discs correctly. When you're not using a disc, return it to its case and store upright. Avoid leaving discs in excessively cold, humid, or hot environments (including under direct sunlight).

When labeling discs, use a felt-tip pen sold for marking CDs. Don't glue paper or put stickers onto the disc, or use a pencil, ball-point pen or other sharp-tipped writing instrument. These could all damage the disc.

For more detailed care information see the instructions that come with discs.

Discs to avoid

CDs spin at high speed inside the recorder during playback and recording. If you can see that a disc is cracked, chipped, warped, or otherwise damaged, don't risk using it in your CD recorder—you could end up damaging the unit.

This recorder is designed for use with conventional, fully circular CDs only. Use of shaped CDs is not recommended for this product. Pioneer disclaims all liability arising in connection with the use of shaped CDs.

Recording CDs

This recorder is designed to let you make extremely high quality digital recordings onto recordable compact discs. For flexibility, you can use either rewritable discs (CD-RW) or write-once discs (CD-R). For more general information on the discs you can and can’t use with this recorder, see About CD, CD-R and CD-RW Discs on page

7.The overview on these pages gives you an idea of what's possible, and also provides guidance on what to avoid and things to be careful of when recording.

Digital and analog sources

This recorder has both an optical and a coaxial digital input, as well as a pair of analog inputs. Use a digital input when:

•recording from a CD/MD/DAT/DCC player or digital satellite with a digital output.

Use the analog inputs when:

•recording from a digital component that does not have a digital output (such as some portable equipment).

•recording from an incompatible digital source (such as a high sampling-rate DAT tape).

•recording a digital copy-protected source (see below).

•recording from any analog source (radio broadcasts, vinyl records, cassette tapes, etc.).

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