Tascam CDA500 CD Player & Cassette Recorder Review

I have purchased and installed 3 of these units.Two in church sound systems and one in my home.All of the units have had problems reading certain CDs.I get "no disk" errors or it takes a very long time to read the CD, both of which are unacceptable in a unit of this price. These CDs have been "brand new out of the box" and CDRs I've recorded.Sometimes they read sometimes they don't.I can not recommend this unit.

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Contractors, musicians and many other professionals will love this new unit from Tascam. With a high quality, auto-reverse cassette deck and a CD player in its 3U rackmount chassis, the CD-A500 delivers the ultimate in playback convenience. This full-featured offers continuous tape play, CD sync, A/B dubbing, and a wireless remote. Outputs include master RCA (both tape and CD) and a dedicated CD out (RCA). Here's the affordable solution you've been looking for! TASCAM's new CD-A500 makes the most of the two most popular consumer audio formats and combines them into an attractive package that delivers both functionality and value. Now the process of duplicating entire CD's or individual tracks to cassette tape can be handled in one convenient, easy-to-use system. Playback can be continuous from deck to deck in either direction, making this unit invaluable in long play, systems contractor applications.

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Onkyo TARW255 Dual well Tape Deck Review

I bought this cassette deck to transfer tapes to my computer and then to my mp3 player. It works great. The sound is excellent and it is easy to use.

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Sony TCWE475 Dual Cassette Player / Recorder Review

This cassette deck does have some really good features like HX Pro, Dolby B & C, music search (AMS, which looks for blank spaces to guess where the next song is), and full dubbing capabilities. I have it connected to my Onkyo A/V receiver via both output and input, since all of my components operate through the receiver. It works well this way and i can record from all sources with no problem.
I have a problem with the sound. It's not as good as the specs would have you believe. I've compared it with an Onkyo tape recorder and, although the numbers are similar (as far as wow & flutter and dynamic range), the Onkyo is much better (it was too expensive and had less features, but now i see why it cost more). The big thing is the lack of a remote. Sony has this funky A1II communication bus system, which is only truly useful if you buy all Sony components. I don't so it's useless to me. The excuse for not including the remote is that you can buy a Sony 300-CD Changer that can control this tape deck. I don't like it when companies use this method to obtain sales, so chances are i'll eventually resell this deck and get one with its own remote and better sound.
I paid $150 + tax at Circuit City. Same price as from J&R/Amazon and with shipping costs the price is almost equal. I'd say buy it if the price is $110 or less. That's all it's worth to me personally.

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Sony's TC-WE475 Cassette Player/ Recorder is packed with features that enable a great listening and recording experience. Utilize our Dual auto reverse feature as you listen, and hear the difference that Dolby B and C noise reduction makes as it suppresses high frequency noise. Also featuring Dolby HX Pro circuitry, Auto Record Level, Multi-AMS track search, Relay Play, and Full-logic feather-touch transport controls, the TC-WE475 is a treasure.

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