Sony RCDW500C Compact Disc Player / Recorder
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List Price: $360.00
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Features
• 5-CD/dual deck with 4x high speed dubbing
• Records CD-Recordable and CD-ReWritable discs
• CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3 playback capable
• SBM - Super Bit MappingA recording
• High speed finalizing |
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Sony RCDW500C Compact Disc Player / Recorder description
With a five-CD/dual-deck capacity and 4x dubbing speed, the Sony RCD-W500C does much more than merely play your favorite CDs--it lets you mix and burn your own. The device records on both CD-R and CD-RW formats, and is compatible with CD, CD-R, CD-RW, and MP3 playback. To improve the recording quality, the RCD-W500C uses Super Bit Mapping technology to ... review details
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Sony RCDW500C Compact Disc Player / Recorder Customer Reviews
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Worked for a year, then PFFFTZ
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I've had this for two years, using it to make live recordings of our church services. It worked reasonably well, although we had 5% - 10% disc recording failures. Two features turned out to be very useful: fade-in/fade-out, and auto-track creation.
Alas, after 24 months I suddenly started getting many bad discs. Cleaning the burn optics didn't improve things. Eventually the recording function quit altogether. Sony was no help, and frankly their technical support in the U.S. is idiotic. They wouldn't help diagnose anything, insisting instead that the discs must be bad. I bought $100 in discs just to prove them wrong. Then their only offer of "repair" was to exchange my unit for a refurb with no warranty for $175! I pointed out that these things are available NEW on Amazon for $200, but they would not offer any other options.
Based on other reports I've read in Amazon and elsewhere, Sony has a serious QC problem with this product's disc recording section. The mechanism is subject to jamming (we frequently encountered this), and the laser seem to be overdriven, resulting in early burnout. Sony won't stand behind the product for repair, and I've since learned that even had I purchased the extended warranty I would have only been offered the same zero-warranty refurb unit.
I'm going to replace this unit with the less feature-rich, but highly rated and apparently sturdy EAC CD-RW880. |
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