Sony RCD-W2000ES 6-Disc CD Changer / Recorder
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- Inputs: Digital Audio (Optical) x 1 Digital Audio (Coaxial) x 1
- Device Type: Changer Recorder
- Number of Discs: 6
- Outputs: Digital Audio Coaxial x 1 Digital Audio Optical x 1 Headphone Jack
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A $400 mistake.
Pros
Handsome silver aluminum front panel, heavy duty construction, 5-year warranty, lots of features
Cons
Sony unable to make this unit work, 5-year warranty worthless, some buttons too small
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
Repairing this model requires a level of expertise that is not possessed by the average SONY technician. This means that the 5-year warranty is worthless. Don't take the chance.
I purchased my unit from Etronics.com on 08/02/05 for about $380. I like the idea of having a 5-CD player and and CD recorder all in one unit of modest size. It is a good-looking unit. I prefer silver aluminum over black plastic. This model has lots of features built in and many are hidden inside the menus. The manual is essential to operate this unit.
You can make synchronized recordings of one CD to another at speeds of 1X and 4X. When the unit was new, these recordings were perfect. You can make digital recordings from an external source using either the OPTICAL or COAXIAL jacks but I never got a chance to try either. You can make analog recording from an outside source using the phono jacks. Well, you could when it was new.
The 5-CD changer/player has a good sound but changing from one CD to another is noisy and slow. Standard functions such as erasing tracks, erasing disks, finalizing, unfinalizing worked very well when the unit was new. I'm using Maxell CD-R's and Memorex CD-RW's. The CD's have to be special music versions.
If the unit had worked perfectly from the beginning, I would be ready to give it top ratings. But at the beginning there was a small amount of noise while recording from an analog source, kind of a "cha cha cha" noise. Recordings from a digital source were excellent. And everything else seemed to work fine. So, what to do? I could send it back to Etronics subject to a restocking fee plus shipping. But I liked the model and I figured SONY would be able to correct the small noise. BIG MISTAKE.
I first brought it to a local SONY Authorized Service Center and when I got it back I was stunned by the damage they did. The noise was suddenly more than 10 times worse than before and now included digital recordings which had been perfect before. Standard functions were much slower than before. Erasing one track will now ruin a CD. After erasing one track, it cannot read the TOC. A finalized CD is slow to play back, taking as long as 30 seconds to begin each track.
I had no choice now but to box it up and send to the SONY National Repair Center in Laredo,TX. Well, after spending a month in Laredo, it came back with very little improvement. They fixed the playback slowness, but noise is still as bad as before. And I still can't erase one track without ruining the CD. They also made one thing worse. When recording from an analog source, the recording level is always below -40DB even with the REC LEVEL knob set to maximum. So on playback the volume is to low to hear.
I called Laredo and complained. They sent me a prepaid UPS shipping tag. I sent it back to Laredo. I just got it back from Laredo after a month and they refused to fix it. The message they sent is "NO FAULT FOUND".
I am trying to return it to SONY for a refund but so far without success.
You can make synchronized recordings of one CD to another at speeds of 1X and 4X. When the unit was new, these recordings were perfect. You can make digital recordings from an external source using either the OPTICAL or COAXIAL jacks but I never got a chance to try either. You can make analog recording from an outside source using the phono jacks. Well, you could when it was new.
The 5-CD changer/player has a good sound but changing from one CD to another is noisy and slow. Standard functions such as erasing tracks, erasing disks, finalizing, unfinalizing worked very well when the unit was new. I'm using Maxell CD-R's and Memorex CD-RW's. The CD's have to be special music versions.
If the unit had worked perfectly from the beginning, I would be ready to give it top ratings. But at the beginning there was a small amount of noise while recording from an analog source, kind of a "cha cha cha" noise. Recordings from a digital source were excellent. And everything else seemed to work fine. So, what to do? I could send it back to Etronics subject to a restocking fee plus shipping. But I liked the model and I figured SONY would be able to correct the small noise. BIG MISTAKE.
I first brought it to a local SONY Authorized Service Center and when I got it back I was stunned by the damage they did. The noise was suddenly more than 10 times worse than before and now included digital recordings which had been perfect before. Standard functions were much slower than before. Erasing one track will now ruin a CD. After erasing one track, it cannot read the TOC. A finalized CD is slow to play back, taking as long as 30 seconds to begin each track.
I had no choice now but to box it up and send to the SONY National Repair Center in Laredo,TX. Well, after spending a month in Laredo, it came back with very little improvement. They fixed the playback slowness, but noise is still as bad as before. And I still can't erase one track without ruining the CD. They also made one thing worse. When recording from an analog source, the recording level is always below -40DB even with the REC LEVEL knob set to maximum. So on playback the volume is to low to hear.
I called Laredo and complained. They sent me a prepaid UPS shipping tag. I sent it back to Laredo. I just got it back from Laredo after a month and they refused to fix it. The message they sent is "NO FAULT FOUND".
I am trying to return it to SONY for a refund but so far without success.
