Crosley CR247-PA Composer CD Recorder (Paprika)

• CD recorder
• AM/FM radio
• Turntable
• Cassette player
• Paprika finish

I sat down to listen to the first CD played on our new Crosley CR247. Halfway through the last song, the music stopped. I pressed "open" CD compartment with no result. I pressed "power off" with no result. Then I smelled hot melting plastic and smoke started coming out the top of the unit. I yelled frantically for my husband to unplug the unit and get it out before a fire started. It was lucky we were right there at the time it overheated. We returned it the next day. When they say it burns CDs, they really mean it! I e-mailed Crosley to report the overheating and possible fire hazard, but haven't heard from them yet.

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Was excited to find an item of this nature. Miss old records and still had stuff on cassette tape that I couldn't listen to with the disappearance of the car and home tape deck. Item looked beautiful and fit into my antique decor. Overall sound quality not bad and I was totally satisfied with it. Nice that CD burner is built in, but one small problem in that system records each side of tape as a single track to the CD...so no forwarding to next song, just to next "side" of tape (Track 01 was 33.2 minutes long once recorded). Major problem was high-pitched humming sound that came from console when power was off, but still plugged into wall socket. Was much more than background noise, could even hear above television at regular volume. Very annoying. Was very disappointed when I had to return the item because of that electric-current hum.

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I had seen this product for awhile and asked for it for my birthday. The first one that came only had music coming out of one speaker when I played a tape and recorded a tape to cd. Amazon sent us a new one after my wife wrote to returns. The second one would stop recording a tape to cd at any time. When a tape would get burned to cd the music was fine for my car. I'm hoping a third one will be the charm. Can't wait to find out.

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After burning one of my favorite tapes onto a CD I discovered, that I can only play CD in the CR247. If this is the case, what good is the machine? I wonder if I am skipping a step or doing something wrong?

This stereo does an excellent job and I am enjoying making C.D.s from my albums.

The sound quality is great and I'm glad they came up with this idea.