Teac CD-P1250 Compact Disc Player with Remote

by Teac

Product Details

• Item Weight: 9.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00006I5VJ
• Item model number: CD-P1250
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,212 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Teac CD-P1250 CD player is a good entry-level unit, with enough features to satisfy an audiophile's basic needs without sacrificing sound quality. The player comes equipped with a 16-bit digital-to-analog converter that translates your digital CDs into vibrant music, along with a wide frequency response that delivers more satisfying results. The multifunction LCD display is easy to read, and it receives signals from a full-function remote control that commands everything from shuffle play to the 16-track random memory programming.

The CD player also offers such essentials as three-way repeat, skip and search functions, and a time display (with total, elapsed, and remaining info). Users don't need to fret about skips or other performance problems due to the center-mounted playing mechanism, which ensures stability and high performance. The CD-P1250 also includes a headphone jack with its own level control for people who want to enjoy their music privately.

What's in the Box
CD player, remote control, user's manual.

Product Description

A solid, reliable 8x oversampling single-tray CD Player for component audio systems

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

67 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Last of the Single-CD Component Players, May 6, 2005

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David Rolfe (Pasadena, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teac CD-P1250 Compact Disc Player with Remote (Electronics)

The main reason, probably the only reason, you would buy this unit is that it's (as I write this) the only moderately-priced traditional single-CD component player that can be found. I don't see any others. Do you?

This is a basic, competent unit. It offers the standard CD controls and display on the front panel, and includes a remote control (which I don't bother with). It doesn't support some modern frills, such as digital output or mp3 decoding or DVDs. It accepts the CD on the standard platter in the center of the unit (oddly labeled "Center Mounted Mechanism", as if this is a noteworthy feature), and it has the standard RCA jacks on the back and also a headphone jack on the front. My unit was made in China in October of 2004, so they're still rolling off the assembly line at this time (that is, this isn't an old model that they found in a warehouse somewhere).

The reason you might want a traditional single-CD component player is that you've got a traditional stereo, and your typical use is to choose a CD and then play that CD. You could alternatively buy an inexpensive CD carousel, but I didn't do this because I figured they were more complicated mechanically and thus would probably have a shorter lifespan. You could also find, for less money than this, an inexpensive DVD player that would play CDs and mp3s and everything else. That extra playback versatility might be nice, but I hesitated to go that route because of concerns that a DVD player would work best attached to a video display, and the extra functionality might render simply playing a CD more complicated than it could be. At least this unit has the appropriate display and controls to play CDs and nothing else. Simple and straightforward. Sometimes, less is more.

My only (small) gripe is that it's missing a feature I enjoyed on my previous unit: The ability to key in a track number to play prior to inserting the CD. That was quicker: I'd key in, for example, 7 followed by Play, and then it would spin up the CD and go right to track 7. With this unit, I must first insert the CD and wait for it to inspect the disc and count the tracks; then it lets me skip to the specified track. So I'm forced to hang around for an extra few seconds.

You'll buy this unit if you're not quite ready to update your music system to the 21st century. You want it to clunk along for a while longer without being integrated into your TV with Dolby 5.1 decoding or as a satellite client on your server PC. You'll catch up with all that stuff when you decide to entirely revamp your system and buy thousands of dollars of newfangled stuff. Meanwhile, all you want is to peruse your rack of CDs and pick the one you want to listen to. You don't expect anything more out of a CD player. Maybe you'll happily sit out this phase of the technology revolution and await the next great leap, which will be a cochlear implant that can tie in to Bluetooth or your LAN. Thus you'll be able to assimilate audio data without speakers or headphones or any other traditional stereo equipment. (Listening to AM and FM will be an incidental bonus, plus satellite radio if you pay the fee.) Obviously even this will be merely a primitive early step; the real goal is to skip the auditory pathways and beam data straight into the brain, in its native format. At that point you'll essentially be telepathic, and perhaps capable of mentally generating any sound stream you care to broadcast or experience. The neural enhancements will be refined until they're completely biological and organic (as opposed to silicon/hardware), and shortly thereafter the human genome itself will be redesigned until New Man is born with these attributes. Your genetically-modified progeny will have no more need for hardware at all.

But until that happens, you still want your single-CD player component. And this is it.

P.S. I bought this from J&R through Amazon at a price of $79.88 (+ $15.05 for shipping), but right now I don't see the J&R offer, and other vendors are asking a much higher price. To step back for a moment, I'll acknowledge that my comments in the foregoing paragraphs are largely rationalizations of an emotional indulgence. This is all well and good when that emotional indulgence doesn't cost much. But there's a threshold above which I would shrug and admit that a cheap DVD player would do the job just fine. So if you can't find this CD player on the discount rack, forget it. That's my advice to you.

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good ,simple , better sound, February 20, 2004

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"christian35" (Wayne , NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teac CD-P1250 Compact Disc Player with Remote (Electronics)

the first thing i have to say is that this player is CDR/CDRW compatible; i bought it a week ago at J&R ,and a played all my cdr and cdrw discs , let me tell you that have a great sound. No problems whatso ever .The reason I bought this player is that my DVD player does not play anymore CD's.just DVD's. I recommended this player to anyone who is looking for single cd player.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good CD player at a low price., January 7, 2006

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custerslastsound "Doug" (EDISON, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teac CD-P1250 Compact Disc Player with Remote (Electronics)

I needed a simple CD player, nothing fancy. This fills the bill perfectly. (Plays discs I had thought were defective; turns out tracking on my old Panasonic was defective.)
I'm satisfied that I got what they said they were selling, plus fast delivery and perfect condition.