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Summary: Lost Manuals and Lost CDs
Review: To those of you who have lost your manual (myself included) you can find basic operating functions on the Koss-AV.com web site under FAQ's-Answers/CDR Recorders. (Note: This is not the Koss headphone website.) They have not yet posted the full manual on the website, however the info posted should help.My unit it worked quite well for a while and I was smiling like a number of the other happy reviewers who made their first recordings, until recently (of course the 90 day warranty has expired)when all seems to be failing. I, like an earlier reviewer had a disc in the unit when it was turned off and upon turning it back on it endlessly searched for the CD prohibiting opening the CD drawer (funny I didn't read this in the now lost manual, which by the way appears to have been written by someone whose first language is not English).I returned the unit to Best Buy where I purchased it (that was the second day after I bought it) and they got the CD out and gave me a new recorder (gut feeling at the time was to get my money back- funny about those gut feelings). Later this happened again with the replacement when the unit failed to read a disc. Frustrated, I got out my screwdriver out and got the CDs out myself. Not easy but can be done. Not a good design(note: before going for your tool box, try turning the recorder off and on completely-unplug it. This "might" reset the computer and then it "might" then read the discs. If this doesn't work then you have to go in with surgery or just toss the thing out). For some reason my recorder has over time become more and more unreliable in recording. It has recently failed almost every CD recording either rejecting the CD one time and then recording it the next after numerous attempts or recording and then failing to finalize the disc resulting in an unusable recording unless you want to listen to all your copies off the recorder. All electronics are subject to failure but this one seems to fail on its own accord when ever it pleases. I have not used other CD recorders but this one won't be my choice when I replace it which looks like it may be very soon.
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Summary: You need a good brand of blank Cd-Rs
Review: When we first got our KOSS CDR200, we were excited about the prospect of being able to record off the air and to transfer our old vinyls to CDs. However, we were initially disappointed with the failure rates of our audio CD-Rs. About half of them didn't work. After some research on the internet, we hypothesized that the brand of blank audio CD-Rs were to blame. At the web site www.cdrfaq.org, we discovered that the brand (Memorex) we were using were called "trashable." So we bought two good brands, TDK and Sony audio CD-Rs and so far, we have not had one single failure. You must realize that the failures we had went as far as to get stuck in the drawer (pull the plug and the plug it back in, you can get it out), failure to finalize, failure to be readable in any drive except the recording drawer, and sometimes not even that! After changing the brand, no problem! We are now glad we have this unit. Yes, a computer system could do better, but no system is better than the ease of use. Once you get used to reading and interpreting the instructions, it works great!
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Summary: Koss CDR200 is a disgrace.
Review: I (like many others I found out)made the mistake of buying a Koss CDR200. I did not use the unit much initially. When I started to use it the CDRW disc locked up in the B drive. I called Koss (a faceless company - must be a pure importer) and they said unplug the unit and plug it back in. It worked - that time. The second time it happened unplug-plug did not work. I called Koss and they said "sorry, unit discontinued, no replacement". Call this screw the customer. No place to repair it. No service information. No replacement unit available. I don't know how they get away with this as I thought all electronic products sold in the US were supposed to have some kind of parts and service availability for a certain number of years by law. I will never buy another Koss product and I will disparage their name anytime it comes up. Any outfit that can't even suggest where their product can be repaired (and this is only to release a disc from the tray)ought to be put out of business.
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Summary: Good Riddance
Review: I'm glad to see KOSS has stopped making this waste of money machine. All of the complaints about the recording side which you'll see in all of the other reviews are accurate: It is very picky about which CD-R's it will accept (rejecting about 1/4 of every pack I tried over the past 18 months), it forces a gap between tracks whether you want them there or not, it determines (based only on its mood) how much time it will allow you to record on each blank CD, and, most maddening of all, it keeps going into "recovery" mode, which basically means it's tacking on about 30 seconds of dead air after each "recovered" track. Since you can not control the record level, each tune is recorded at it's original level, and that varies from source to source--so your CD's play volume is all over the map if you use different sources. And lately it's not even putting a ceiling on the volume, so I get finished CDs with horrible distortion levels. I won't be buying any more KOSS equipment, that's for sure. I'll spend the extra bucks for a decent recorder--and the KOSS is going out with Tuesday's trash.
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Summary: Stopped Working in 3 Months
Review: Me and a great buddy of mine went the same day to buy this item and both of our systems no longer worked after about 3 months, (actually my friend's system broke in 2mo) I will never purchase a KOSS product ever again.
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Summary: Koss- I wouldn't recommend
Review: I have had my unit for approx. 2 years now. The playing side works geat,but the recording side has started to fail. You cannot record tracks off the cds now. You can't even record a whole cd, because it will not finalize. I should have spent an extra $200 on a better brand like Sony or Panasonic. I wouldn't reccomend this Koss cd recorder to anyone!
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Summary: Not worth it
Review: You might think I'm sour because mine just crapped out after 18 months (whereas I have the same amp and EQ I bought in 80 and 81, respectively....), but this just isn't worth the money. I bought the floor model, and every time I burned a CD, I wished I'd bought a more expensive model. First of all, it doesn't have a recording volume pot, so you have to run it through a tape deck or something that does, so you can balance mix CD's to a consistent volume (in other words, different things are ORIGINALLY recorded at different volumes, particularly LP's vs. CD's. When you put a song from each back to back, it's really bad, unless you can balance the incoming volume. Which you can't with this.) Also, even though the manual says you can do this, you can't make an exact copy of a CD. It ALWAYS puts a one second gap between cuts. So, if you're copying a symphony, there will always be a | break between movements. Or, heaven forbid you score a bootleg of a concert... Your only options are one 80 minute track, or lots of applause and cheering | and lots of applause and cheering bertween songs. Recording is cumbersome, as well, but I've already bored you enough. Finally, I almost always got "recovery" errrors... Don't know what they are, but it was disturbing. I made some GREAT CD's with this, and was excited to buy it, but, all in all, I was disappointed that I spent $150 on it, and will definitely pay more for better features, and more convenience.
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Summary: [stopped working] in 6 months
Review: This item is not particularly user friendly when it works. However, mine went south (B drive) after only 6 months. Then I realized that there is only a 90 day warranty, which is lousy. So Koss gets a resounding "Boo!!" from me.
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Summary: marie-vonne
Review: My girlfriend gave us the CDR 200 KOSS recorder for christmas
but we are unable to use it. It didn't have the manual. I need one. Can you help? If i have to pay i do not mind. Please advise.
Please find below my mailing address. Thanking you in anticipation.
Yours truly. MARIE-VONNE DE COMARMOND
4670 BOUCHETTE STREET
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
H3W 1C5
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Summary: Fatal Flaw
Review: I've used one for about 6 months, copying LP's onto CDRW's, which I would then carry over to my PC, edit and split the tracks, then burn a final CDR from there. For that purpose, this was a more than satisfactory deck. But then I encountered an absolutely atrocious design flaw. Eventually, everyone gets a bad or marginal burn. Problem: when you place a CD into this deck or power up the deck with a CD in it, it tries to read the basic CD/track info. During that time, the open/close button is disabled. The problem is that, if this initial read fails, the deck may reset and retry, and fail again, and THERE'S NO WAY TO STOP IT AND GET THE BAD CD OUT! A call to Koss' service confirmed that there is no way to suppress or interrupt this process. They could only suggest that I send it in for service. Now, as I said, sooner or later everyone does a bad burn. Every other CD/DVD deck I've ever used had SOME way to eject a bad CD.
This is an incredibly poor design and will, for many users, eventually be fatal.
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