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TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

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as reel to reel albums, many of which never have and never will be released on CD and putting them on CD myself is exactly what I wanted to do. So far so good; I've transferred one LP album and one reel to reel album. While I may have some "audiophile" equipment, my ear isn't good enough that I can be called one but still I haven't been able to detect any difference in sound between the original source recording and what the recorder has put on CD. Many other owners of this recorder seem to want to put the recording onto CD from the recorder and have that as their final copy. I don't think that would work for me. Once I finalize my disc I bring it over to my computer and rip the recordings in the WAVE format and do further editing such as removing pops and clicks from recordings taken off records, normalizing the volume of the recordings, and splicing tracks into one large recording. I find it much quicker than the alternative of lugging a turntable (and mine does have a built in preamp) or tape player over to the computer and sitting there for hours to do the transfer, to poorer results actually. With the CD recorder you can just hit record and leave it. Since I do editing at the computer, one feature I have not used and don't have much use for is where it automatically detects low volumes and automatically makes a new track on the CD during the recording. When you record from an analog source remember to keep an eye on the volume input so you don't go into the red. This was OK to do in the old tape days but not with digital recordings or else you'll get loud static that ruins the recordings. The default volume set at '0' seems to be fine so far (although is low on the final result) but I am glad the option to change it is there for sources which may be too loud or too quiet. The manual suggests to connect TAPE OUT on your receiver to the recorder's RCA input but as this might introduce unnecessary extra noise or static I always plug whatever device the source recording is coming from directly into the recorder. This probably won't be an option if you're recording from a turntable since most turntables do not have built in preamps like mine but will be fine with a tape or other CD player. As with most similar recorders you do have to buy the more expensive music blank CDs and not the generic ones used for everyday computer burning (although I have not tried to use a generic one). These are cheaper online; I bought 50 from J&R for $10 (which is also where I bought the recorder; seems they sell it on here but since I'm in Canada I had to buy it from their site). For me, CD-RWs would be better since I do the final editing on the computer and burn it from there but I have not been able to try recording with a CD-RW yet. As a CD player it works fine and I had no problems hooking it up with its analog outs to my 33 year old Pioneer SX-1050 receiver. The reason I took a star away is because I was quite upset to find it did not have an S/PDIF digital input so I could make use of the S/PDIF output on my turntable. I was really expecting this input to be here since virtually all other CD recorders I saw while deciding which one to buy had it. I'm also not happy that you need to `finalize' the disc before even being able to bring it over to the computer to rip the recordings off so if I have nothing else I really want to record I have to either waste the rest of the room on the disc and finalize it or just wait until I do have something else I want to record (as mentioned above, the way around this would be to use the more expensive music CD-RW blanks). However, I wouldn't think there'd be a way around doing this final step on any CD recorder. Recommended.

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TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

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as reel to reel albums, many of which never have and never will be released on CD and putting them on CD myself is exactly what I wanted to do. So far so good; I've transferred one LP album and one reel to reel album. While I may have some "audiophile" equipment, my ear isn't good enough that I can be called one but still I haven't been able to detect any difference in sound between the original source recording and what the recorder has put on CD. Many other owners of this recorder seem to want to put the recording onto CD from the recorder and have that as their final copy. I don't think that would work for me. Once I finalize my disc I bring it over to my computer and rip the recordings in the WAVE format and do further editing such as removing pops and clicks from recordings taken off records, normalizing the volume of the recordings, and splicing tracks into one large recording. I find it much quicker than the alternative of lugging a turntable (and mine does have a built in preamp) or tape player over to the computer and sitting there for hours to do the transfer, to poorer results actually. With the CD recorder you can just hit record and leave it. Since I do editing at the computer, one feature I have not used and don't have much use for is where it automatically detects low volumes and automatically makes a new track on the CD during the recording. When you record from an analog source remember to keep an eye on the volume input so you don't go into the red. This was OK to do in the old tape days but not with digital recordings or else you'll get loud static that ruins the recordings. The default volume set at '0' seems to be fine so far (although is low on the final result) but I am glad the option to change it is there for sources which may be too loud or too quiet. The manual suggests to connect TAPE OUT on your receiver to the recorder's RCA input but as this might introduce unnecessary extra noise or static I always plug whatever device the source recording is coming from directly into the recorder. This probably won't be an option if you're recording from a turntable since most turntables do not have built in preamps like mine but will be fine with a tape or other CD player. As with most similar recorders you do have to buy the more expensive music blank CDs and not the generic ones used for everyday computer burning (although I have not tried to use a generic one). These are cheaper online; I bought 50 from J&R for $10 (which is also where I bought the recorder; seems they sell it on here but since I'm in Canada I had to buy it from their site). For me, CD-RWs would be better since I do the final editing on the computer and burn it from there but I have not been able to try recording with a CD-RW yet. As a CD player it works fine and I had no problems hooking it up with its analog outs to my 33 year old Pioneer SX-1050 receiver. The reason I took a star away is because I was quite upset to find it did not have an S/PDIF digital input so I could make use of the S/PDIF output on my turntable. I was really expecting this input to be here since virtually all other CD recorders I saw while deciding which one to buy had it. I'm also not happy that you need to `finalize' the disc before even being able to bring it over to the computer to rip the recordings off so if I have nothing else I really want to record I have to either waste the rest of the room on the disc and finalize it or just wait until I do have something else I want to record (as mentioned above, the way around this would be to use the more expensive music CD-RW blanks). However, I wouldn't think there'd be a way around doing this final step on any CD recorder. Recommended.

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TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

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as reel to reel albums, many of which never have and never will be released on CD and putting them on CD myself is exactly what I wanted to do. So far so good; I've transferred one LP album and one reel to reel album. While I may have some "audiophile" equipment, my ear isn't good enough that I can be called one but still I haven't been able to detect any difference in sound between the original source recording and what the recorder has put on CD. Many other owners of this recorder seem to want to put the recording onto CD from the recorder and have that as their final copy. I don't think that would work for me. Once I finalize my disc I bring it over to my computer and rip the recordings in the WAVE format and do further editing such as removing pops and clicks from recordings taken off records, normalizing the volume of the recordings, and splicing tracks into one large recording. I find it much quicker than the alternative of lugging a turntable (and mine does have a built in preamp) or tape player over to the computer and sitting there for hours to do the transfer, to poorer results actually. With the CD recorder you can just hit record and leave it. Since I do editing at the computer, one feature I have not used and don't have much use for is where it automatically detects low volumes and automatically makes a new track on the CD during the recording. When you record from an analog source remember to keep an eye on the volume input so you don't go into the red. This was OK to do in the old tape days but not with digital recordings or else you'll get loud static that ruins the recordings. The default volume set at '0' seems to be fine so far (although is low on the final result) but I am glad the option to change it is there for sources which may be too loud or too quiet. The manual suggests to connect TAPE OUT on your receiver to the recorder's RCA input but as this might introduce unnecessary extra noise or static I always plug whatever device the source recording is coming from directly into the recorder. This probably won't be an option if you're recording from a turntable since most turntables do not have built in preamps like mine but will be fine with a tape or other CD player. As with most similar recorders you do have to buy the more expensive music blank CDs and not the generic ones used for everyday computer burning (although I have not tried to use a generic one). These are cheaper online; I bought 50 from J&R for $10 (which is also where I bought the recorder; seems they sell it on here but since I'm in Canada I had to buy it from their site). For me, CD-RWs would be better since I do the final editing on the computer and burn it from there but I have not been able to try recording with a CD-RW yet. As a CD player it works fine and I had no problems hooking it up with its analog outs to my 33 year old Pioneer SX-1050 receiver. The reason I took a star away is because I was quite upset to find it did not have an S/PDIF digital input so I could make use of the S/PDIF output on my turntable. I was really expecting this input to be here since virtually all other CD recorders I saw while deciding which one to buy had it. I'm also not happy that you need to `finalize' the disc before even being able to bring it over to the computer to rip the recordings off so if I have nothing else I really want to record I have to either waste the rest of the room on the disc and finalize it or just wait until I do have something else I want to record (as mentioned above, the way around this would be to use the more expensive music CD-RW blanks). However, I wouldn't think there'd be a way around doing this final step on any CD recorder. Recommended.

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TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

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My entire collection of CD-RW's have come back to life with the replacement. This is a good machine. I recommend it highly

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TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

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My entire collection of CD-RW's have come back to life with the replacement. This is a good machine. I recommend it highly