TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

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TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

Be aware that this machine only uses specific cd's. If you are a church and buy your cd's in bulk, find another machine. Their tech support is the worst.

29 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 95 days ago at

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TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

I ordered this product on May 29, 2009 and got it during the 2nd week of July. The unit received had a label saying "Made in China - June 2009". I made all the connections following the book instructions (although I have been making this type of connections for 35 years), plugged it in, turned the unit on, and NOTHING. (After turning the unit on it is supposed to go on a standby mode & from there you turn it on with the remote). I tried various outlets that I knew were active, and still nothing. I undid the connections and tried to turn it on again several times, still nothing. To make a long story short, the unit was completely dead on arrival. I returned it the following day. It seems that Teac-China, in its urge to rush products to the market, has completely bypassed even the most elementary forms of quality control. And my 11 year-old Terapin CD player/recorder is still working...

29 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 114 days ago at

TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder

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TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

This device records audio to a cd. Input may include radio broadcasts , audio cassette tapes or other CD's. You need to be able to hookup these devices to this TEAC recorder.It is easy enough. You may record to a CD-R (one time) or a CD-RW many times. I record about 1500 hours per year and this purchase replaces the one that lasted about 2 years. All of my original CD_RW's are still functioning after use of 100 to 200 times each. Remarkable!! My only complaint is the technical help line. They have no idea what they are talking about. They blamed the CD-RW's when the first recorder was breaking. I bought a second set of 10 CD-RW's based on their insistance that I do so. As each new one was unwrapped and lasted 2 or three times, the help line said all you could hope for was five times. They could not accept the possibility that their recorder had worn out. In spite of that total customer service failure, I purchased a replacement that again works great and still have no CD-RW failures.

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29 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 169 days ago at

Must have for a musik lover

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TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

This is a high quality device for cerating CDs from LPs and making compillations. It is easy to operate and has many useful features. It would be better if it also had an optical out. The limitations which are there are not in the device but in the fact that digital copy are usually blocked at the source. However analog copies are always allowed.

29 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 170 days ago at

Mostly satisfied

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TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

I've owned this unit for only about a week and I've already logged about 50 recording hours, copying everything from hard rock to classical music. I'm very pleased with the sound quality and I've found the controls pretty easy to master, even though I'm not usually good with new instructions. I don't have a working CD drive in my computer so I'm using the Teac connected directly to my audio system which includes a Sony CE595 CD changer, and I have the two decks connected via both optical cable and analog. Both setups are easy to use; the Teac requires you to tell it which source you want to use- either digital or analog. It's not possible to record "2nd generation" digital copies, apparently so as to prevent mass-copying at very high quality levels. So you can make one digital copy, but when you want to copy that copy digitally you're given a "Can't Copy" message. I found it frustrating that in the instructions where they list the error messages there's no mention of "Can't Copy". The

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manual does include an explanation of the 2nd-generation prohibition issue so that was the explanation for "Can't Copy", but there should have been some mention of this message in the Error Message section. I think my blood pressure went up about 10 points before I found the explanation. In any case, when you get that message you simply need to switch the source to "analog". The only real complaint I have is that some of the controls are not user-friendly. I've found the remote unresponsive unless it's pointed directly at the sensor, even with brand new batteries, and even then from no more than about 2 feet away. It often requires several attempts, and because of that I would not use it for recording purposes. I've found the manual recording options simple to use anyway, although the process requires attention. The soft-touch controls on the face of the unit are easy to use but not perfectly responsive- on several occasions I've pushed the Pause button and gotten no response, and some of my work was ruined as a result. But overall, I'm impressed with the build quality and sound, and with the functions in general. The tray Open/Close function is silent and the unit seems generally well-built. I would downgrade the unit for the issues mentioned previously, but I'm very appreciative of the sound quality and that's the main issue for me. One caution about CD-Rs- they don't play automatically in every CD player. My Sony, which I bought 18 months ago and which is still selling as a "new item", reads these CD-Rs only part of the time. It often fails to recognize the disc and as a result displays "no disc" and moves on to the next disc it can actually recognize. This is not the fault of the Sony- it does not claim to work with CD-Rs or CD-RWs. And these same CD-Rs work just fine in my car, which has an older CD player and would not be expected to even know what a CD-R was. So I would just caution the purchaser to keep in mind that your finished product may or may not be as widely usable as you would hope. At least until the new generation of CD players are all able to recognize this format. Update 7/19/2009 I have to downgrade this item to 3 stars. I'm still happy with the sound quality but there are serious problems with the automatic tracking function. If you walk away from your recording project you're likely to end up with several songs on the same # track. This is not good. I've had to switch to the more-expensive CD-RW's merely because the tracking process is not reliable and as a result on occasion I need to erase and re-record. And that causes other problems because CD-RW's are recognized by relatively few machines. I now do everything manually, and although it takes more time yet it's a more reliable approach.

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TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder with Remote

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