Others say...

"another home run for Amazon"
Great product with price and service to match. Contacted seller with what I thought was a problem and
received almost an instantaneous reply.

"Door for CD did not open."
When the product arrived I plugged it in and the door for inserting the |CD did not open. I returned the product for a refund.

"Better than expected"
I was looking for the cheapest CD recorder I could find just to record weekly sermons to distribute to the homebound and elderly. I found the recorder easy to use, high quality, and it does wonders transferring my old LPs to CD.

"Good Unit - simple & bare bones, just what I wanted."
I bought the TEAC CD RW880 last week. I've got it hooked up to a Kenwood KR A4040 Receiver which lacks the four extra audio jacks needed to plug the CD recorder into. I had to (temoprarily) unplug the Yamaha Dual Cassette deck so I could connect the CD recorder. I'll have to by some Y-Splitter cables so I can reconnect the cassette deck later this week.

I have some cassettes I recorded off many of the Chicago radio stations and want to transfer some to CD. The drive belt on my Pioneer PL600 Turntable died three days before I received the CD reacorder. I'm waiting to get the belts from Pioneer so I can start recording my LP's.

I recorded 2 CD's of songs off the radio. I also copied some pre-recorded CD's for use in the car. Of the 47 songs I recorded from the CD's, the CD Recorder only missed automatically inserting one track break. And I didn't even set the press the auto button.

I'm using TDK Music CD-R disc to record on. They sound and play fine in the Teac CD RW880, the Pionner PD-F506, mother's Bose Wave and my Buick. I got them from Amazon too. The unit was shipped rather fast. The corner of the box had a slight crush mark on it an there was a hole torn in the top of the box large enough to insert four fingers. There was no damage to the unit though.

It was easy to hook up. The directions were pretty straight forward. At the present I'm not using the remote control, I prefer to use the buttons on the recorder. My only complaint is the unit is black. I wish they would go back to the silver faced panels like we had in the 70's. They were much easier to read.

I wanted a simple unit. I didn't want the multi-disc player/CD recorder that Sony had to offer.

"Great unit for the money, Works great but has a few minor issues"
Hi, I purchased this unit for my church to record the music/sermons weekly. The unit is very nice looking and feels sturdy and built well. The controls are easy to use and connections are very simple. Analog stereo in and out are all you need but you can also connect a digital signal to another device to record without quality loss.

The only issues I have with the unit is it defaults to the optical input and auto track division every time it is turned on. I use the analog input coming from one of the Post Fader Aux sends off the Mackie Mixer our church has. I have to change the input from Optical to Analog and then press the A-track button 4 times to Manual just to make sure it doesn't auto track on a low level signal.

It is very easy to use, we place a blank CD-R Music disk into the unit and after the above settings changes, I press record and it gets ready. When I want to start the actual recording, I press play and away it goes on track 1. To start another track, which I do for each praise team song, I just press record button again and now I am on track 2. I do this through all the songs and then when the offering comes up, I just hit pause. This ends that track and sits waiting at the next track. I then just hit play and the next track starts recording. After the sermon and the closing hyme are done, I just hit stop.

The last thing you have to do is press "finalize" and then Play and it writes the TOC (Table of Contents). Takes about 1:20 or so for a full CD-R. You must do this for the disk to play in other CD-players.

I know a lot of other reviews were unhappy with the Music disks being required. You can buy a 100 disk pack off of Amazon for $20. They are a Generic brand but I have used them for many weeks and have not had a bad one yet... (knock on wood). As another reviewer said you can just buy a pack of Music CD-RW's, copy on a PC to a cheap data CD-R and then reuse the Music CD-RW's.

Overall a nice unit. The only other complaint is the "Time" button, (which switches from counting track time to counting down total time left) is only on the remote. Not a big deal but it is the only button I use on the remote as the unit is right there next to me.

Highly recommended for any church wanting to get away from recording to cassettes.