I've been wanting for a while now to copy many of my LPs to CD-R so I can
load them up on my Escient music server. As it happens, I saw a GF-450K7 in
my local super drug mart of all places. It's selling for $399, and I'm not
sure if they'll cut the price or not next week after Christmas. It offers
the convenience of a one-box solution, with the table and CD burner all
together, and requires the use of audio CD-Rs rather than computer CD-Rs.
For space reasons, the albums on my music server are ripped at 320K rather
than FLAC. When I bought it three years ago, a guy at Escient told me nobody
there could tell the difference.

Anyone have any experience with the Teac product, this model or a different
one? Thanks.

"Sonnova" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:25:26 -0800, Clifford T. Newsome wrote
> (in article <xGR2l.72583$(E-Mail Removed)>):
>
>> I've been wanting for a while now to copy many of my LPs to CD-R so I can
>> load them up on my Escient music server. As it happens, I saw a GF-450K7
>> in
>> my local super drug mart of all places. It's selling for $399, and I'm
>> not
>> sure if they'll cut the price or not next week after Christmas. It offers
>> the convenience of a one-box solution, with the table and CD burner all
>> together, and requires the use of audio CD-Rs rather than computer CD-Rs.
>> For space reasons, the albums on my music server are ripped at 320K
>> rather
>> than FLAC. When I bought it three years ago, a guy at Escient told me
>> nobody
>> there could tell the difference.
>>
>> Anyone have any experience with the Teac product, this model or a
>> different
>> one? Thanks.
>>
>
> Yeah, I reviewed it for a magazine. It sounds lousy as a stand-alone
> player/radio, and as a transfer device, it's merely OK but the turntable
> rumbles BADLY and the arm is flimsy and the cartridge is so bad that it
> makes
> the cheapest $30 Stanton 400 seem like a Clearaudio Goldfinger v2
> ($10,000)
> by comparison.
>
> If you have a computer, use that and buy a 'table with a built-in phono
> preamp and a USB output. NuMark makes such a puppy called The TTUSB for
> about
> $170. It's belt drive with a "decent" arm, and that and even the cheapest
> computer with a CD burner will perform rings around that TEAC and you can
> use
> cheap, bulk, data CDs to boot!.
>

Thanks man. I'm very glad I asked!