Repair shop has had it longer than me!
Written: Mar 11 '02
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Pros: Fairly easy to use
Cons: Breaks faster than a $20 bill!
The Bottom Line: CAVEAT EMPTOR! (Let the buyer beware!)
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| midiman's Full Review: Philips CDR765 2-Disc CD Recorder |
My partner and I have a band and were looking for a reasonably priced CD recorder to duplicate our demo CDs and to make compilations to play during breaks. He found the Philips model at Best Buy and picked it up for us. It was an opened box model so we got a good deal...or so we thought.
I got it home and set it up...pretty straight forward for someone like myself who has been setting up P.A. gear every week for the last 25 years. I hooked it up to my home system so I could burn a compilation of my old (old,old,old) 45's. (For the younger crowd, 45's were what music used to come recorded on back in the pre-CD age!) and the first compilation went off without a hitch. It was great to have those old songs to play again...scratches and all. It turned out so well, in fact that at one of our gigs, two ladies asked if we would make them copies of the CD for them. They even gave me $10 to do it! Imagine my frustration when I got home and went to make copies for them only to have the recording tray (the left tray) say "NO DISC". Hmmm...maybe the disc is bad or dirty, I thought. Cleaned it off put it back in..."NO DISC". OK, so I tried a blank, never used CD-RW. "NO DISC". Alrighty then. Tried a commercially recorded disc...Sting I think..."NO DISC"! Houston, we have a problem. I had burned exactly ONE DISC at this point and the tray was malfunctioning! Not a good sign.
So, I tucked the unit under my arm, grabbed the receipt and the extra warranty we purchased and headed on back to Best Buy. They informed us that because it was an opened box model sold at a special price the only way we could get a new one was if we paid the difference in price...an additional $80. We opted to let them fix it no charge.
After a little more than a week, we got it back and I took it home and dutifully hooked it back up again. I put in a blank CD-RW. It went into "INITIALIZING" mode for about a minute and then displayed "OPC ERROR". OH NO! Not again! I tried a different CD-RW...same deal. I then put a blank CD-R into the right tray. It whirred and hummed and then said "NO DISC"! AAAGGHH! I tried three more brand new, never before opened CD-Rs (All made for audio...in case you were wondering if I checked that!) and all read "NO DISC". I pressed eject on the right tray, removed the disc and then pressed the eject on the left tray...the display said "OPEN" but the tray wouldn't open..and wouldn't open...and wouldn't open! I couldn't get my CD-RW out! I finally had to turn the machine off and then on again to get it to eject!
I looked at the repair sheet and discovered that Best Buy had already installed over $600 worth of new parts in this $300 machine and now I had to take it back to them again! They still have it so, as of this writing, I am not too happy with my purchase!
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 250
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