Review on 🎵 Sony RCD-W500C CD Player and Recorder: High-Quality Audio Playback & Recording Capability by Jesse Azuse

After being shocked by the negative reviews on this product I bought it anyway. I've never bought a Sony product that didn't come out of the box and thought I'd be out of luck if it was the first. I also thought that Sony had plenty of time to fix all the issues that were said to have arisen when the product was first launched. In fact, it works exactly as intended. The guide has everything you need to use each feature, although it takes more than a quick read to complete the necessary steps in the right order. This is to be expected from a machine that handles so many different writing tasks. The sound of the recordings appears to be exactly the same as the sound source, although vinyl records are said to have a richer sound. I don't hear any difference on 1.20 meter high Advent Heritage speakers or Sennheiser HD 600 headphones with incredible sound quality. Maybe the best test device in the world can tell the difference - that's for others to decide. I had to scrap the plan to find the perfect settings to automatically recognize every track in my old record collection. The idea is that you set the device to detect a certain level of silence when recording, signaling that a new track has been created and assigned a number. The problem is not with the recorder, but with the recordings. Either the "silence" between tracks has a discernible level of noise (background hum on old recordings) and the recorder will not record a new track, or if the threshold is set high enough to create a new track despite hum, it will Being places where the music is quiet, triggering the threshold and creating a new track while recording. I had 10 track songs numbered to the true end of the track. The message here is simple: listen to your recordings as they're being recorded, with a threshold low enough that new tracks aren't automatically installed, or with automatic track creation disabled, and just press the button when each track is done. Press "Pause" when side 1 is complete, which will create a new track number, and continue to the end. And please remember, the only time you don't do the finalizing sequence is if you're making an exact copy of a CD. Even if you can use this recorder as a CD player, you will probably be disappointed with the random playback function or the multi-disc track playlist (programming function). Every time a new disc comes out, the machine has to read its table of contents before it can play it. This is a very handy feature for burning your favorite tracks from up to 5 different CDs - you program a playlist and then burn. A pause during a new disk scan does not become part of the final disk. This product fulfills all the recording tasks that a home user could wish for.