Customer Reviews:
 Bought another one July 19, 2008
This player recorder is really good, I use it every week at our church to record our praise service. We now have two, one for each sanctuary. It took a little bit to get through the instruction book, but once I mastered it, it has all of the functions I need. When you are recording live the make next track function is very useful to create breaks for the next song. The only thing I do not like is when nothing is happening it stops recording or creates lots of tracks, I now control that through the pause button.
Great, once you get through the manual May 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I previously owned a Sony CD recorder with which I was very happy, but it was damaged in a move from one state to another. I bought the RCDW500C because I figured it would be similar, which it is, except for having more drawers. There are a few other minor differences, but it essentially works the same. Unfortunately, I hadn't tried to make any CDs in a while so I'd forgotten some of the basics, and I have to agree with many of the people who have already mentioned that the manual is poorly and confusingly written. Also, I found the directions on how to connect a turntable or other outside element to the RCDW500C to be lacking and I had a little trouble doing that. Otherwise, it has performed well and I have made several fun compilation CDs so far. Once you get the basics down, this recorder is fairly easy to use.
Just incidentally, I initially inquired at both Best Buy and Target about CD recorders, and the 20something clerks had no idea what I was talking about. They insisted that what I wanted was a burner for my computer or something to hook up to my iPod. I'm not sure they knew what stereo components are, let alone a turntable.
 horrible April 25, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
i hate mini disc and by the way people this is not from sony's quality days sony hasnt been good since 2002 get an old sony cassette deck for recording thats top notch it will work ten times better then this i guarentee i gave this a try and sent it back it wouldnt work for me at all
pretty good March 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Machine does what I wanted. Transfers old cassette tapes to CD's. One drawback seems to be with my DELL computer furnished hardware/software. The hardware/software will not recognize the CD's as a CD. My older computer, with NERO software, does recognize the CD as an audio CD and allows me to create another CD that is recognized by the new DELL computer. The CD's created on the machine will play on other players. The other drawback is that one has to purchase "music cd's" in order to record on the machine. 'R' CD's won't work. However, the 'R' CD's work fine with the NERO software.
DOA March 15, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I ordered the Sony RCDW500C disc player recorder based on the extemely positive experiences I continue to have on Amazon, and it was the best price I could find on the internet. Unfortunately the unit arrived pretty much DOA. I wrote to Amazon and they gladly took the unit back and refunded the whole amount. Great job! I subsequently purchased a similar unit from a local electronics dealer. It is a great unit.
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