What about 'the reliability factor?' The reason I am looking is the 'increasing non-reliability' (TOC) of the 'not old' Sony CD recorder I alreadyown.
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this is my second one like the first so well also got a great price easy to use also helps................
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We installed our Tascam cd recorder in the sound system of a church sanctuary and use it every Sunday and on other occasions to record services. It has been working fine. As with most cd recorders, we find we have to keep training/reminding volunteers of the extra step needed to finalize a disc when recording is complete. Even though instructions are clear and the Tascam display prompts for this, operators miss this step occasionally.
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Well, I bought mine a few days ago and recorded some voice /guitar at home. The recorder was easy to use and the results sound clean. It is very easy to transfer into my Mac and to burn a CD. However my CD will not play in my Sony sound system and I was very disappointed to find that the CD is only usable in a computer. I am not at all tech savvy and at age 75, I probably never will be. I even put the wav files through a software that changed them to AIFF bu all I get is a loud buzz from my CD player. Does this sound right?
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I can only give you an answer to my experience with these disks.Several years ago I bought a spindle of disks to record music on, I was unaware at the time of the different types of disks.i have several methods of recording music to disks but I was un-successful doing it on these disks.I looked at the box and it said "data" on the wrapping.Ever since then I have only purchased disks that say "music" on them and never had a problem.Sony sells reliable disks and I recommend not buying inferior disks as they will just frustrate you.Good luck and check out my Band.You will never be the same.http://youtu.be/wlFgSBn7OnA I can only give you an answer to my experience with these disks.Several years ago I bought a spindle of disks to record music on, I was unaware at the time of the different types of disks.i have several methods of recording music to disks but I was un-successful doing it on these disks.I looked at the box and it said "data" on the wrapping.Ever since then I have only purchased disks that say "music" on them and never had a problem.Sony sells reliable disks and I recommend not buying inferior disks as they will... » Read More I can only give you an answer to my experience with these disks.Several years ago I bought a spindle of disks to record music on, I was unaware at the time of the different types of disks.i have several methods of recording music to disks but I was un-successful doing it on these disks.I looked at the box and it said "data" on the wrapping.Ever since then I have only purchased disks that say "music" on them and never had a problem.Sony sells reliable disks and I recommend not buying inferior disks as they will just frustrate you.Good luck and check out my Band.You will never be the same.http://youtu.be/wlFgSBn7OnA « Show Less
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I just purchased a Toshiba D-VR610 DVD/VCR recorder (tunerless), for the purpose of copying my VHS tapes to DVD. Other than a poorly-written manual, I like the unit. I'm using rewriteable DVDs, so that I can learn how to use the unit without wasting DVDs. If you read through all of the reviews on the various websites (Amazon, Bestbuy, etc), you will find that this unit gets high marks by customers, whereas most other brands have various issues.
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Dear Stephen, I gave your question serious thought. I even searched the web for a proper answer. Its best to contact Sony's technical dept. They will ask you for the type of recorder, model, speed etc. Regards, George Ejdaharian
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It is a very good Player and record. But if it gose down it is very hard to get some one to fix it!I like the one that I have but it is a old one and would like to find one of the H.D. model.
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The question has already been answered from below comments, and I also would highly recommend this unit. I also have transferred many of my record LP. , and also my old 7in reel to reel recordings to cd.
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ONLY Sony MUSIC CD's (with the purple label) will work on my stand-alone Audio CD Recorders (made by Phillips, Teac, Kenwood, Crosley, [non-computer based]) as they have a bluish-green tint and have a special encoding to tell the recorder that they have they have paid a 'royalty fee' to record music. Standard CD's and many bogus Imation/Maxell/Verbatum/Memorex "Music CD's" do NOT have the proper encoding anymore to work in these stand-alone Audio CD recorders. So be careful with what you choose. Purple wrapper Sony's are the ONLY brand that work in my (non-computer-based) Music CD recorders anymore.
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I have no idea. Both have proven very reliable. I've tried other brands and they frequently have unwriteable discs in the package...Sony rarely does. Ask Sony. Grandpa 6 times also!
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My old one (same model) became increasingly fussy about discs before it just refused to record on any. They are notoriously fussy about recording on DVD- discs. I think the formatting has changed also over the years, so they cannot record on some DVD+ discs. It's best to just record on DVD+ anyway, b/c the Toshiba, for instance, will convert an older DVD+ disc so you can finish out, edit and finalize, but all the Toshiba will do is play an unfinalized DVD- disc. Find a brand that works for your recorder, and stick with that brand, DVD+ only. If your recorder gets fussy woth THOSE, it's probably not going to last much longer. My old one (same model) became increasingly fussy about discs before it just refused to record on any. They are notoriously fussy about recording on DVD- discs. I think the formatting has changed also over the years, so they cannot record on some DVD+ discs. It's best to just record on DVD+ anyway, b/c the Toshiba, for instance, will convert an older DVD+ disc so you can finish out, edit and finalize, but all the Toshiba will do is play an unfinalized DVD- disc. Find a brand that works for your recorder, and stick with that brand, DVD+ only. If your recorder gets fussy woth THOSE, it's... » Read More My old one (same model) became increasingly fussy about discs before it just refused to record on any. They are notoriously fussy about recording on DVD- discs. I think the formatting has changed also over the years, so they cannot record on some DVD+ discs. It's best to just record on DVD+ anyway, b/c the Toshiba, for instance, will convert an older DVD+ disc so you can finish out, edit and finalize, but all the Toshiba will do is play an unfinalized DVD- disc. Find a brand that works for your recorder, and stick with that brand, DVD+ only. If your recorder gets fussy woth THOSE, it's probably not going to last much longer. « Show Less
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If you're looking at extremely long life and reliability, you would be better off looking into lto5 tapes. But, they come at a price
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Lawrence/Melton, thanks for the info! I am thinking about .atrac for nostalgic reasons. Some years down the road, when Sony folds and ATRAC becomes public domain, perhaps ATRAC files will be more playable.. ;) But looks like PCM/WAV is the way to go, as someone else mentioned that I will be transcoding the audio if I save it as ATRAC3+. So I will probably just do PCM and convert it to FLAC for archival and playback. The CDs will be for giving to my relatives so they can play it on any CD player. Not as a storage/archival medium. That'll be on my RAID harddrive. I am picturing another scenario. After all these work (and $$$ to buy the MZ-M200) to upload a pristine copy of the recording to my computer, and put the MD away for storage in my attic/craw space, something happens and I lose the copy on my raided HD, the copy on my RAID NAS, the copy on my offline HD, and the copy on my offsite storage, and I am back to square one, bidding on an MZ-R200 from ebay (as I've probably sold mine), paying dearly, to do this all over again. ;) Well, of course this won't happen, as I can probably still hunt down the copy I gave to my relative, but the thoughts have occurred to me. ;) In the end, I think the MD would've cost me more than if I had purchased a professional DAT player in the first place. There are so much that can be said about why MD failed and how utterly stupid Sony is, I am not going to say anything other than Steve Jobs is the best answer to Sony's paranoia about copy protection. Protected a few pennies, but missed out on billions.
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I haven't had any problems with mine, but it is a cheap portable record player that is very convenient for sampling used records before purchase. That's all I use mine for.
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I haven't recorded on this machine yet, which I purchased to replace the discontinued model with a built - in tuner. I could not play back DVD- disks recorded on that machine. Some dvd+ disks recorded on that machine seemed to go bad after a lot of use, as well. The lightly used vcr is what failed completely. I liked having the controls on the box, which Toshiba did not have.
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There is a difference! My Teac CD recorder (AD-RW900) will only record on "Audio" (the purple label) cds. I had tried the other "music rated" cds and they will not be recognized by the recorder, perhaps the formatting is set up for real time recording and the others are formatted to be burned from a PC.
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I was able to convert several cassettes to cd and mp3 but the converter died and I had to find a different unit to finishmy project. This USB unit is cheaply made and not reliable. Sorry.
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I was able to convert several cassettes to cd and mp3 but the converter died and I had to find a different unit to finish my project. This USB unit is cheaply made and not reliable. Sorry.