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Teac W790R Dual Auto-Reverse Cassette Deck with Pitch Control

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Teac may not be well known in consumer electronics,But they make quality products at competetive prices. Although tape decks are becoming obsolete,this Teac player can offer you CD like soundwhen using High Bias Cassettes. You will not findto many players with the High End quality that this unit gives you at any price. I highly recommend the TEAC W790-RIf you want a tape player that is just as goodwith a few more features see the TEAC W860-R

This is a nice sounding deck, but the tape transport is cheap and unreliable. I had mine for about a year, and the left well started eating tapes. I finally took it to a repair shop. When I got it back it worked for a week then it ate one of my favorite tapes. I would not recommend this deck.

We produce books-on-CD, but when we record live, we use a small, studio-quality tape recorder for convenience. We then ship the masters to a popular nationwide service for transference to CD.

Our old tape-to-tape machine just couldn't be repaired again, and we needed to back up a master fast. I ordered the Teac W790R because I knew I could have it overnighted. We were all surprised by the excellent backup tapes it produced, and have continued to use it.

And our technician couldn't be happier. It's just a great deal, especially for the price.

I needed to move some old tapes to digital. I bought this item because it got good reviews and it seemed a fair price at about $160. It works fine. It would be nice if it had a volume control for the headphones. It would be nice if it had a remote control. It would be nice if the tape clack weren't LOUD and slow. It would be nice if it didn't have cheap switches on the lefthand side... But all in all, it's fine as is.

Then a couple weeks after I bought this one, I saw a really nice tape deck at a thrift store. It looked more expensive than this one, looked recent, had more hookup features in the back (including optical), and looked like it had never been used. For $20 I could have got every feature here, except the pitch control, which is an afterthought feature anyway (it's coarse and totally imprecise with no labeling, besides software will do the same thing for free). I cannot speak for the technical quality of this unit or the one at the thrift store, but there's no evidence of any advancement between this one and one I bought a dozen years ago. (by contrast, if you buy a cheap vcr today, it will probably be better, faster, quieter than an expensive one from just 6 years ago, as I learned firsthand recently)

It occured to me that there are millions of practically unused tape decks in thrift stores everywhere; no one needs them anymore. The moral of this story: the internet is not everything! Don't just buy because something got good ratings.

Bought this some years ago already and works great. Now I only use it to convert cassettes to mp3. A cable connects the player's out jacks to the laptop's in jack and then Total Recorder saves it to mp3.

I had previously owned a Teac dual casset player/recorder for twenty years and was very satisfied with it. When it finally broke I decided to purchase another. Upon reciept of the new recorder I proceeded to try all functions of the machine. When I tried to record from a CD or another casset the results was garbled noise. I'm sure that this was not the norm for Teac equipment,but I returned the merchandise and ordered the more expensive Denon. Hopefully this recorder will last far more than twenty years.

Look around in your local electronics stores and you'll find either HUGELY expensive players or single tape units.

This player allows tape-to-tape duplication as well as the ability to put two of your old collection in and listen uninterrupted. Sure, it's not a 100-disk CD carousel...but how else are you going to listen to some of your best stuff (that you probably taped yourself?).

This, or the other TEAC dual-cassette units, should find a place on your shelf.

This has worked out very well for playing tapes to record onto my computer, in order to convert old sermons from tape to Digital/CD. I really enjoy using it with the optinos for Dolby-B or Dolby B and C noise reduction, and also the optinos for strait-playing one side, or looping a-b-a-b or just side 1 once and side 2 once.. helps out A LOT for converting old tapes to digital.

For my setup, using a min-Yamaha sound board between the tape player and computer to even further clean-up/inhance the sound. Currently using a Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi card, was previously using an Audigy 2, and Audigy 1 before that. Now, I would like to sometime replace that with an M-Audio Delta card for better quality. However, this setup seems to give better results than many others do achieve, in my opinion.