Error message   Burning Choices Page 4  The VeloCD drive might
step down to 16x if you don't use blanks labeled for 24x
copying. To make a super-fast copy from a CD, you'll also need a
second, speedy CD-ROM drive. Otherwise, you have to record the
CD to your hard drive from the Velo CD - which it can do at up
to 40x - and then burn it from the hard drive to a blank CD. By
the time you go through all the necessary maneuvers, that's not
much fast er than the Harman Kardon's 4x copy. But burning can
be lightning fast if the music is already on the hard drive.
Let's call speed a near draw. Although the computer drive burns
much faster, most us ers will have to go through a lot more to
supply the audio to the laser. I can burn a good part of a CD
using a component deck in about the time it takes just to boot
my PC.  Turning Up the Heat But computers win a technical
knockout when it comes to versatility. Microsoft provides basic
CD-burning capability with its new Windows XP operating system.
The software supplied