byronbaker1's Full Review: Tascam (CDRW900) CD Player / Recorder
I recently got rid of my old Philips 820 cd recorder, to purchase something of more quality. Although my Philips did well with copying my albums, it just didn't work well all the time, and too many bugs and quirks. I read about the Tascam in a stereo magazine, and on-line, and it recieved great reviews, so this is the one I set out to purchase. I didn't want to spend a whole lot of money on it, but I did want a better unit than before. Purchased it 8 months ago and this is the one for me. It not only records my albums at a superb quality, it also spits out a bad blank cd-r! I have a boat load of blank cd-r's to record to, some good, some bad, and this machine spits out the bad ones, which on my old machine would have turned out to have garbled spots on them. I still burn to a cd-rw, then copy that to a one time cd-r. I must be cheap, but I like to catch my mistakes and re-burn than just throw out a cd-r. The Tascam has many options, some being track pitch adjustment, keyboard text entry (which is a must if you ask me), manual analog input sound level adjutments(which is another GREAT feature), auto snyc start,auto or manual track division, manual digital levels (don't like to mess with those though),mp3 player, optical and digital inputs, and many more. I love the way it sucks the cd into the recorder as opposed to laying it on a tray. Feels very proffesional. Some of things I don't like about the Tascam is the rack mount. I don't have a rack, nor do I want a rack to mount it in, but it is for the professional recorder, and I'm sure all of the professional's have it mounted in a rack. I do not, and the ears on the side with the mounting holes look abit funny sitting in my audio stand, but I can live with it because of the Tascam's quality. Another is the text input. Yes, you can do it with the keyboard, which makes it a ton easier, but you have to keep hitting the shift and the f8 key to get back into naming tracks. EVERY TIME. I think you should be able to get into the track naming menu, and stay there for the whole duration of naming the tracks. It gets a bit tedious at times. I miss the dual cd trays on the Phillips recorder, because now I have to use a cd/dvd player to copy my recordings from cd-rw to one time cd-r's. That's a minor complaint, but having both in one made it a tad more easier to use. Dollar for dollar I wouldn't want my Philips recorder back because the Tascam records, and plays ten times better.The other Tascam's that are or were on the market have been built extemely well, so quality is worth every penny.
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