Grace Digital Victoria Tunewriter Turntable - ITC-TWCDRW

I bought this unit for my wife to record her old albums onto CD's. I looked at a number of similar units, most likely made by one company and simply re-branded. The item was delivered well packed and quickly. The instructions could use a little work, but I would say their not far from any other instructions for an imported electronics item. You may need to walk through the steps a time or two and figure out what works best for you. Really not at all that difficult, just expect that you will have some mistake cd's which will be tossed out. The unit instructions do mention the use of Re Writable CD's. If I had thought about it, I would have used one of those to try it out the first couple times. Oh well... I wasted .25 worth of CD's. Nothing to cry over. As for the quality of the recordings. If you hear static, scatches or popping when you play your record, that's what you'll hear on the CD. It's just like copying to a tape cassette. What you hear is what you get. There are computer programs to clean up these things. However, if your more interested in listening to the music, than wasting hours trying to remove these noises from your recordings, and this type of noise really bothers you. Spend the time to clean it up, or just go buy the CD version. I found that recording from tape casettes produces very good results, and recording from records is just like I said above, what you hear is what you get. We can live with that. Lastly, the sound produced by the speakers in the device is ok. I would compare it to any old record player with speakers. Not great, but ok. On the other hand, I plugged the unit into my stereo system, and it sounds great. My wife mostly listens to her music in her car, so once she transfers the things she wants, I expect this player will probably gather a bit of dust like our stereo system. Still, I feel it was worth the price. I'm happy with the results of both the recordings, and my wife being thrilled to listen to some of her old records in her car.

Although the selling point is ease of use, this does one no good if the parts do not function. I found the turntable very flimsy. After 3 uses the phono arm malfunctioned and would not return fully to the beginning position. The instructions gave a remedy for this problem but if one must do this each time after one plays an LP, this will become a bother. Also the instructions for burning a CD are ambiguous. Not a device I would recommend for serious archiving.

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The instruction guide is the most impenetrable piece of poorly written prose ever articulated. Getting the thing to work is like a feat of magic. But it does work (when and if you can figure out how to make it work).

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Update: It's been several months since the purchase of this product, and it has worked consistently. My father has burnt dozens of CDs without major problems.

I purchased this tunewriter for my father for Christmas, and we burned a couple CDs from his records that day. The directions, as others have indicated, are not the best (there are a few rather humorous errors), but they can be worked through. It really didn't take too much time to set the unit up and get it going. My father likes the quality of the CDs burnt from his records, and the unit takes up much less space than the stereo with a record player they recently moved to the basement. My father did say, however, that the remote was touchy.

To burn a CD from a record, you do need to listen to the entire record or whatever songs you want to burn. If you want, you can pause the recording and skip around on the records. Yes, you have to station yourself right by the tunewriter and be on the ball with pausing the recording and changing the place on the record, so it does take some time to transfer from a record to a CD. (If you want to be paying attention to your record anyway, this is no major chore.) By the way, whenever you pause the recording, the system automatically advances a track for the CD that will be burnt, but if you haven't paused you can put the tracks wherever you want them by pressing one button to advance tracks.

I read several reviews before I decided on this product, and I noticed some people who had tunewriters (this one or others) said they stopped working after burning a few CDs. I think I should say that CD burners do need to rest sometimes. I've burnt CDs with my computer and noticed that it wouldn't do one right after the other, but once I waited a bit the burner would work again. This might be the issue with some tunewriters too (I can't say for sure). We haven't had any problems with the unit not working, and my father has burnt several CDs since Christmas.

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My goal in purching the Tunewriter was to create CD's from my many vinal records. I had a problem recording to CD and received outstanding suportfrom both email and chat.

When they couldn't solve my problem they shipped a replacement tunewriter immediately!! It was then I was embarrased to find that I had picked up a DVD-RW NOT A CD-RW. MY THUMB MUST HAVE COVERED THE DVD. OF COURSE RW WAS WHAT I WANTED BUT NOT DVD. How embarrasing. I put this wonderful customer support group to so much trouble and it was all my fault. They were always curtious and patient.

The Tunewriter reproduces the sound of CD's,Vinal Records and Tapes beautifully and the CD's I have recorded are every bit as faithful in reproduction as the originals.