Teac GF350

Pros: It turns and burns LPs into CDs and then MP3s.

Cons: It costs a lot for the privilege.

The Bottom Line: Another step toward converting ALL of your music into tracks you can store on your iPod or other portable music player.

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Very easy to use!!

Cons: Cost, plus required music digital audio disks are more expensive than plain CDR disks.

The Bottom Line: I highly recommend this for all of you who have vinyl sitting in your basement. I've surprised people by emailing them songs they thought they would never hear again!

Review: I have a very large collection of vinyl from the late 70s and early 80s, many of which are no longer commercially available. I've recorded several onto CD already using this machine. My goal is to get it done quickly, although I understand there is ...

Pros: Easy to operate; great sound quality; a great investment.

Cons: I wish the speakers were a bit bigger, but that's it. It's a great unit.

The Bottom Line: Buy it! Just go get it! You won't be sorry! A great value for the money!

Review: It seems I learn everything slowly and painfully. I love computers, but all of that tekkie-talk just makes my eyes glaze over. Whilst surfing the net one nite, I ran across an ad for the Teac GF-350. And I thot, "what a cool concept." So I found one; I ...

Pros: Does exactly what it is supposed to do.

Cons: None yet.

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Good recording quality..easy to use..worth every penny..

Cons: write protect feature sucks...and not able to copy direct from radio

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Reliability, ease of use, and fidelity.

Cons: Automatic tracking is not effective. Audio is restricted to two built-in speakers.

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Very easy to learn, decent fidelity, not too pricey

Cons: Falls short of the highest possible sound quality, the usual digital-rights-management annoyances

The Bottom Line: A good middle-of-the-road audio component that's easy to operate and easy to live with.

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Very easy to use. Great sound using the method mentioned above.

Cons: Too expensive given the quality experienced using the internal turntable.

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Compact, Good manuals, Easy set-up

Cons: REALLY POOR SOUND REPRODUCTION, Requires copy protected recording media, Poor value for the cost.

The Bottom Line: It is a waste of time to copy your vintage LP's to CD with this equipment.  The sound quality and fidelity range are very poor.

Review: I have hundreds of old LP's from the 60's, 70's and 80's that I can no longer use in my home sound system.  My wife bought this equipment as a gift so I could save the classics from years of collecting.The equipment works well although the ...

Pros: Looks like an easy way to get music from records to CDs...wrong

Cons: Serial Copy Management System prevents really useful copying and limits copying to that one CD.

Review: 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 ...