TEAC GF-550USB Turntable/Radio/CD/USB Recorder with Cassette Player Wood Cabinet

• Easily convert your old records and cassettes to CD
• 3-speed turntable plays 33, 45, and 78 records
• Enjoy your music on the stereo 3x2, 3.5W speakers or hook it up to an external amplifier
• Listen to your favorite local stations on the built-in digital AM/FM tuner
• Control it from anywhere in the room with the included remote

Works well. I just want to be able to listen to old records and tapes using the digital equipment of today. I am not interested in taking the time to make each conversion perfect, so having a bit of imperfection (noise or other small imperfection) is not a problem for me. I have used this to convert, to digital format, about to 200 records to digital format. In addition, about 30 cassette tapes have been burned to CDs. Somewhat clumsy to connect directly to my computer, but that is because of space limitation on my desk. I have converted all of our old 78 rpm and 45 rpm records to digital format, then used no cost Audacity software to edit and remove pops and clicks. I find it easier to have the unit burn a CD and then put the CD in my computer, rather than to do the conversion directly to my computer using the USB connection. Audacity is also used to split tapes and CD conversions into single songs.

Note: The manual does say that using the auto track maker feature when converting a record to digital format is not recommended. I tried anyway on LPs. The manual is correct. It has worked well with audio tapes, but still sometimes makes a new track during a quiet spot in a song.I find recording the conversion as one file, then using Audacity to separate the big file into individual songs is fast and easy and more important, accurate.

Negatives: There is no automatic arm placement when starting to play records. Easy enough to manually move the arm and place the it in the proper position, but I do 'miss' from time to time. The tape player has no automatic stop for FF or REW, so one must manually press stop. The tape player has no auto silence finder, so converting anything other than the whole tape is tedious and requires one closely monitor.

In all other respects I am very pleased. It looks good and seems to be constructed well. I have been amazed at how well it plays and converts 78 rpm records. I used the OE 'needle' and washed each record first. These were records that have been played many times and had plenty of scratches and some chips. I used a new 'needle' for 45 rpm records, and yet another new 'needle, for the 33 rpm albums.

This has been a 5 star device in every performance respect, but gets only 4 stars because I wish it had the features listed above as negatives.

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The fm/am player has a bit of static in the sound. Maybe because I'm not using an antenna; but I'm loving putting favorite songs on cd from cassette tapes. Grandson has also put them onto his lap top via cable included.

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Plays OK, sounds Ok,but wasted 8 blank CD's trying to record.Teac customer service slow to answer trouble shooting questions. Will have to take it to an authorized service center to repair the CD recorder.