Songwriter Cd Recorder With Radio

I love this product. It allows me to play/record records at all three speeds. You can record the whole side of a record in a single track (easiest), or record individual songs in seperate tracks. You can also play/record Tapes the same way.

It allows you to play CDs or am/fm radio as well.

I've finally gotten my old records out of storage and can play them on CDs or on my IPOD which was the main purpose of getting this product.

The Product was exactly as stated. Highly recommended to anyone

The Price was extremely expensive

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When I tried this first, the CD drawer would not open. I exchanged it. It recorded to CD but only sporadically. Parts of songs and whole songs were missing. This happened with different records and different CD-R's. Now I'm looking for something more reliable.

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If you have a lot of LPs and cassettes, this may seem like the dream answer to turning them into CDs but there are some drawbacks. It does do the job, but not easily. Cassettes that are good quality to begin with, transfer well, but if the cassette is a long playing one, its contents may not fit on a CD with enough room left to finalize the CD, which is a requirement if you want to play it back on any other device. You have to turn the cassette over manually so you must monitor the process carefully. That said, the resulting CD is good and worth the effort.

LP to CD is not as good unless your LP is pristine in quality. Every scratch will come through and the depth of sound is not great. If you are not really careful and nudge the needle, the resulting noise will transfer as well. It's a very manual process, which is time consuming and requires great care to get a good CD recording. If all the stars are aligned right, however, you can be successful. Getting the individual tracks is possible but requires a steady hand and constant attendance.

The controls are very difficult to read since they are identified with very small raised lettering in the same color as the faceplate on the unit. They are not terribly intuitive so you must read the instructions to learn the process.

As for playing a cassette, LP or CD the unit works decently and it's nice to have all those functions in the attractive case. The speakers aren't fabulous, so if sound is an issue for you, you'll probably be disappointed. The radio is, for me, the poorest feature. I live in an area of mediocre reception, but every radio in my house works better than this one. If you get really good reception where you are, that may not be a problem for you.

The first remote I received did not work, but customer service promptly sent me another, which did--for a short time. Now it only works when it's in the mood, so I don't even fuss with it anymore.

It does seem like a solidly built product and it does perform the advertised functions, so I'm not completely dissatisfied, but the quality of the created CDs is not as good as I'd hoped and ease of use leaves much to be desired. Bottom line: As a unit to listen to cassettes, radio, LPs and CDs, there are better choices available, but when I purchased this one, I couldn't find one that also transferred LPs and cassettes to CDs and that was my main interest.

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As the reviewer Listening said, I had the very same problems with the initial one that I bought with the CD drawer not opening and had it exchanged for a new one where the CD drawer did open. I hooked it up and tried it out and that is when the problems started.

When I tried recording to CD, the CD recorder would always stop recording in the middle of either vinyl records, 78's or tapes were being recorded and I always had to start the process all over again and when I succeeded in finally getting the whole thing that I wanted recorded onto the CD-R, I test played it before finalizing the CD-R and there was always a chunk of a song or two missing. It simply didn't capture the whole song onto the recordable CD and it was really a letdown. There were only very few successful recordings made. The thing is that you waste even more money buying CD-R's and none of them, no matter which brand of CD-R that you use, gave any different results. The results were almost always the same and almost each and every attempt of getting a successful recording from any format was never really a huge success. It was usually a disappointment and all the energy that you use up simply wasn't worth it.

When you do play music on either the turntable or the cassette player, the music is never played in the correct tempo. I know so because I have tried the same vinyl albums and tapes on other units and they played and sounded better. I also tried out prerecorded CD versions of those same vinyl albums that I have and they also were much better. The tempo on these units plays the music a little bit faster than how it was recorded in the studio and subsequent mastering and transcription. The point is that it just doesn't sound the same and it doesn't really give the same overall enjoyment as it would with a much better stereo system.

The only thing that these are good for is for simply playing your favorite music and listening to it if that is what you really want. But don't expect much in quality when it comes to making your own CD's with the built in CD recorder. You won't get what you really want and you will only be disappointed in the end as a result. I even talked with people in my area who repair electronics and they have all told me that even if they were to fix the problem of the CD recorder stopping in the middle, it wouldn't really fix it as it would do it again after subsequent uses after the repair. They also advised me that it would be better for me to simply buy professionally made products, such as professional CD recorders and hook them up to a much better quality stereo system. They said that it would be a much better way to record from any format to a CD as professional recorders don't stop in the midst of recording and you can manually separate the tracks or it will do it automatically. They also added that though professional units cost much more money, they are worth the money that you spend in the long run. I did take their advice and I did buy a professional CD recorder and the results are much better than this unit any day. The only other thing that these particular units are good for is that they do make a nice conversation piece, because of the nostalgic styling that they are made in as a reminder of those good old days of high fidelity.

My advice to any/all of you who are not sure of purchasing this is to simply don't waste your money on this. You are better off saving your money and buying professional grade audio units rather than spend it on a unit like this. You're simply paying for the name on the product and not for quality. You will pay more for professional audio grade products, but you will get much better quality for the money that you spend on them in the long run and the results are far more satisfactory. The best thing to do is to avoid these units at all costs. Take it from a person who bought one and tried it out, such as myself. It really isn't worth spending any money on. No it isn't.