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Amazon was great and replaced it for free and no charge for shipping at all. Purchased first machine in Dec. It worked great for recording 2 Cds. 10. So far all my recording has been from vinyl albums. Then it quit working.
The sound quality is first rate. 09. The second machine has been working well so far. The play cd section still worked, but the record cd section wouldn't work. I returned it and got a second machine in Jan. I have been using Sony music Cds.
I would recommend it for more serious music listeners.
i once had a problem trying to eject a disc from the player side. push open button, but no luck.THEN i unplugged the unit from ac waited a moment, plugged back in, and have not had the problem since. other digital products can be "reset" this way. (don't unplug your pc though).
I did not have a good experience with the seller either. Unfortunately we had to ship the item back. It does not have the capability to record from analog sources. They made it very difficult to return the product.
But I imagine the equipment that Sony used to produce that CD was extremely expensive especially at the time.I know that I don't know much about what CD mastering is. Most of what I was able to read about super bitmapping talked about dithering although one article mentioned down converting or down sampling. This is a CD released in 1997. However you still would not be applying the sbm (the super bit mapping)Very needless to say I think part of my decision to buy this unit was that I felt that somehow hooking up your computer to your stereo will wind up deteriorating the signal.
I see some people in their reviews saying that they use super bitmapping for when they are recording reel to reel. That is to say I will not turn the button off. And then perhaps make an ACC or MP3 of it. But do you really get the almighty Sony super bitmapping at the touch of one button with this unit. It seems also that some sources talked about super bitmapping as a 20 bit system and some called it a 24 bit system.
You should also pick up a great turntable or buy a new needle for your old one if it's good. I'm not an audio engineer. The answer is probably yes.I could tell you some more of my thinking but I think it boils down to using this on a machine is ultimately a better conversion than using a computer. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the reason this unit is a little big is because they had to fit a bigger CPU, digital signal processor and other microelectronics solely because of the super bitmapping feature.
If you use a computer to record analog sources you could make a 20 or 24 bit recording. So my understanding of super bitmapping is that it is the intelligent conversion of a 24 bit recording to a 16 bit recording. (and that the end result CD sounds better than 16 bit) Furthermore if you feel that you prefer Sony's mastering, that you prefer super bitmapping; there is simply no software program that is going to emulate that process.In summary it is as if you are given in this product the ultimate most high end feature for under $250. My understanding though I have tried to make clear and I intend to use the super bitmapping on every record I convert. I did try to read about super bitmapping. My old Sony CD recorder is a lot smaller and doesn't have super bitmapping.Therefore I don't intend to use a computer even though I could. On second thought I realize that is not true.The CD that I always think of associated with super bit mapping is miles Davis kind of blue.
I intend to use this unit with the super bitmapping feature turned on. Second thought lets talk about it I don't often write amazon reviews and I thought I could add some important life to this discussion, there are a lot of reviews here and hardly anybody is talking about super bit mapping. Consider though that if you make an uncompressed 24 bit recording on a computer ultimately to put that recording on a Redbook CD you're gonna have to one way or another convert that to 16 bit. So far I've converted two records with super bitmapping and I'm extremely impressed. I think it's the only reason and the only reason that needs to be as to why this unit is completely outstanding.
I've had this box for a couple of years. Their cassettes sucked and their CDs do too.Just my two cents worth. Don't get CDs that say they can play music.
Works just like a cassette recorder except you can't rewind and redo. Sony's music cassettes sucked, so do their CDs.Memorex. Recorded tons of music from LP to CD.
Doesn't work.Maxell music CDs work fine.Sony audio CDs do not work well, I'd stay away from them. YOU MUST USE MUSIC CDs. The CDs MUST have "music" or "audio" printed on the CD.
Same as Sony. Thanks.
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