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Carl, I'm not in DC now — I was in Reston for a conference a couple of weeks ago (SIGCAT 95). However, you may be referring to a message from Mark Czajka of The One-Off CD Shop Washington. He's located in White Plains, MD. If you'd like to visit their shop, you can call them at 301-870-0480 or contact Mark online at 71042,3304. I'm in Huntsville, AL, and you're welcome to come visit anytime I'm in town 😉 >> Do you know if there is a way of determining whether or not I hav the vent problem? There are no vent on the top of the case but I suspect that isn't what you are referring to here. No, not the case necessarily. I believe the laser assembly inside the case didn't have any vents/heat sink/fan/whatever, although I haven't disassembled one of them myself. I've been told by people at JVC that their non-Pinnacle version of the same machine doesn't have that problem, however. TO be fair, it may be possible to burn up any CD-R writer if you work it hard enough, esp. if the ambient temperature in your workspace is not low enough. One of our shops reported burning up a Philips CDD521 a year or two ago by recording 30 discs back-to-back, but other people do that without problems. I guess a lot of unknowns still exist in this area. Kathy The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc. Huntsville, AL