 "It'll be a busy winter..." | 2009-11-17 |
| - Reviewed By sam1983 |
| My husband's uncle wished he could listen to his extensive LP collection in the car, but didn't have a CD recorder. He has recorded many of his favorites in the past two weeks, and plans to go digital with the entire collection (several thousand albums). Very satisfied with this recorder, very easy to set up and operate, very good results. |
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 "Infested with Electronic Bugs" | 2009-11-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1JYMHFO4ZENMW |
I am now starting to use my second RCDW500C and hoping that it will hold up better than the first one. I was delighted with the first until it began to develop bugs, which got progressively worse. I'm praying that it was just a lemon, else I will have to try another brand -- and the pickings are slim.
I make composite recordings (mostly CD to CD), and I do it only occasionally, so the machine does not get heavy use. This unit was easy to learn at first, though it took a while to get the hang of doing CD-to-tape and back-to-CD recording, with all the tweaking of levels that were involved. I never mastered the fade feature.
Over time, though, this unit started to give me recording error messages, especially once I got more than half of a disc recorded. At first, I was able to work around these by repeating the same steps -- or by finalizing and unfinalizing the disc. Eventually, though, it was taking me literally hours to get the last two or three tracks in a collection to take. That's when I switched off to the new one that I bought as a backup. (If it does the same thing after a bit of use, I'll not only try the Teac option but swear off Sony electronics altogether.)
It's a pity that the Sony machine develops bugs. The sound quality is very good. Though it takes practice, adjusting recording levels is rather simple, and there are separate level controls for digital disc-to-disc dubbing and for recording from an analog source. The problem is that, unless my first one was a lemon, I'd have to replace this unit with a new one every year, even with relatively light use. |
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 "The worst cd recorder I ever owned!" | 2009-10-16 |
| - Reviewed By firstarrowhead |
| The Sony recorder is the worst I ever owned. When I first bought it after a week recorded cds would skip or not play.I sent it back for repair it was lost for three months.Now 15 months later the player is skipping and not playing disc.Get alot of no disc,when there is a disc in it.Before I bought the Sony. I had three JVC units never any problems other than I wore them out.When I went to purchase another one Jvc no longer made them. The sony was the only one I could find.I have never been a fan of Sony except for their portable items Walkmans ect. I'm now going with the Yamaha CDRHD1500 HDD its high price,but you get what you pay for. It also seems the home CDR recorders are becoming a thing of the past so if you plan on buying one you had better act fast.Get a good one,it might be the last one you can find. |
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 "Great sound producing quality" | 2009-09-18 |
| - Reviewed By tonytheil |
This is my second Sony RCDW500C compact disc player/recorder, which is identical to the one it replaces. The original purchase took place five years ago. I don't know the expected life of this product, but it did get thousands of hours of play time. Its service life ended with a mechanical malfunction - the discs could not be retrieved without disassembling the unit.
The accompanying manual needs to be rewritten. It is an example of how a manual should not be written - the worst I've read. I'm disappointed that Sony has not read the reviewers' comments for this item and rewrite a manual that can provide easy-to-read operating instructions.
I rated the player/recorder 4 stars, even though its performance deserves a 5 star rating. If I get 10 years life from my replacement, then I will edit my review and give it the 5 stars it deserves. |
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| "cd recorder, sony" | 2009-09-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3KJ9LZSZ40TLV |
| good machine, cd- to cd, record works great, will need to reveiw and learn many commands to record from analog, so far i am satisfied, i had a KLM', for 4 years before it died, and could not be fixed, this machine is a reconditioned, and was a good price at around 200.00, good luck, |
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| "Wonderful Equipment" | 2009-06-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A31CVW5EEC41L9 |
| Sony's CD recorder does it all for the home user. I've only had mine a few days and am very pleased with it's features. There are numerous by comments by other reviewers about the instruction booklet being complicated. It is but there's a very good reason for it. The RCDW500C is a somewhat complicated piece of equipment with a number of attractive features. Quite frankly, I am still experimenting with it to understand all that it will do and how to do it. The difficulties are my own short comings. I previously owned a Harman Kardon, which was much, much easier to operate with concise easy instructions, but it didn't do half of what the Sony will do. (Then,too, the Harman Kardon was a high maintenance piece of equipment and they've given up on making them as far as I can tell.) The thing I really like about my Sony is the ability to control the volume input from deck A while recording on deck B. This is very useful with older CDs. This puts the machine in a manual operating mode for recording, which means almost fully manual and, therefore, a little more complicated (and fun). I am learning this machine by experimentation, which means more than a couple of blank disks are not going to be "keepers." For me, it's worth the nominal costs of the disks to ensure I know and can effectively utilize all the unit's features. If you want to pop this unit out of the box and be off and running, it might not be for you. If you embrace all of it's features and take the time to learn them, the trial and error of experimentation will be well worth it -- in my opinion. |
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