Music was the thing and swing was king on radio waves and records. Teac GF-350 Nostalgia Stereo System is reminiscent of that period of the 20th century. It also adds a CD Recorder Player (records directly from Turntable phono, or from an auxiliary Input onto CDR CDRW discs). It lets you convert your old phonograph record collection into a modern CD collection.
Convert Your Old Vinyl 33 RPM Records into CDs...and MP3s
Rating
Written By Ed.Williamson
Date Written Dec 30 2005
Summary
I saw the ad for it in a catalogue sent out by a company called firstSTREET: a machine that burns CDs from your old vinyl records. It looked too good to be true. You see, I came from the 60s--- more-or-less, the days of Buddy Holly, Elvis, The Beach...
Strength
It turns and burns LPs into CDs and then MP3s.
Weakness
It costs a lot for the privilege.
Bottom Line
Another step toward converting ALL of your music into tracks you can store on your iPod or other portable music player.
It's no particular trick for a computer geek who started out as an audio geek to record old LPs and 45s to CD. But the vast majority of us aren't geeks of either variety, which is why there ought to be a tremendous market for the Teac GF-350. The...
Strength
Very easy to learn, decent fidelity, not too pricey
Weakness
Falls short of the highest possible sound quality, the usual digital-rights-management annoyances
Bottom Line
A good middle-of-the-road audio component that's easy to operate and easy to live with.
This unit does exactly what I wanted it to do and performs exactly as promised in the literature. I have a lot of LPs and am copying them onto CD. It works very well. The CD recorder is very particular about the type of blank CD to use. It must be...
I purchased GF-350 with Compuplus.com for $269.98 plus $12.00 SH. I owned Teac's reel to reel/ and also some Akai's back in the 60's and 70's. These companies were the forerunners in the audio recording industry. I've always had one or the other unit as...
Strength
Good recording quality..easy to use..worth every penny..
Weakness
write protect feature sucks...and not able to copy direct from radio
At first I was disappointed. Going from the turntable that is internal to the unit produced CDs that were very thin sounding. Then I started recording using my own turntable, running a line from the headphone jack on my stereo's amp. Wow!! what a...
Strength
Very easy to use. Great sound using the method mentioned above.
Weakness
Too expensive given the quality experienced using the internal turntable.
Transcribe LPs and tapes to CD discs with reliable easily operated equipment
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Written By normanalton
Date Written Jul 28 2007
Summary
This is a complete stereo designed to put LPs and tapes onto CD discs. The latter must be "Digital Audio". The fidelity is good, and the system is foolproof. The only weakness is in the automatic track numbering system. I found it necessary to do...
Strength
Reliability, ease of use, and fidelity.
Weakness
Automatic tracking is not effective. Audio is restricted to two built-in speakers.
IF the GF-350 won't allow a copy to be replicated then the copy is a dead end and not a real backup of your original vinyl. This means the backup is play only, never record from it. So you can not put it on your ipod, or computer. This is a huge...
Strength
Looks like an easy way to get music from records to CDs...wrong
Weakness
Serial Copy Management System prevents really useful copying and limits copying to that one CD.
any system that will not allow you to 'rip' *your* own records, after you've paid for them, is not worth the expense. Other systems, for MUCH cheaper $ will allow you to burn your records onto a Cd and then allow you to convert that into a digital music...
Strength
ABSOLUTELY NONE! Nothing nada ziltch. no pas. zero.
NO REDEEMING QUALITIES
Weakness
SEE ABOVE, DOES NOT ALLOW RIPPING OF YOUR RECORDS TO DIGITAL FORMAT
