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Summary: Yamaha is NOT the best!
Review: After having and using this for 2 years, I've decided it is not the greatest and I also found out that Yamaha does not even make CD-drives for computers any longer and doesn't even have any support system to help you out if you have a problem.
My suggestion, don't even buy a used one! Mine quite working completely after only a few years. It is just a dead carcass in my computer until I have it removed.
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Summary: THE EASIEST DRIVE TO INSTALL AND USE!
Review: After several weeks of searching for the right CD-RW, I only ordered Yamaha because of the positive feedback I read from this sight and because I am familiar with the brand. I've always had a big problem going into my hard drive without professional assistance and even with the self proclaimed "easy to install" reviews, I still was hesitant but decided to take a chance. I'M GLAD I DID! Had it in and running in 10 minutes and burned my first audio cd without any hassles using Nero 5.5. I highly recommend this product!
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Summary: 2004 Update, Read Before NOT Buying....
Review: Below is my original review when the writer was a few weeks old. As of last week the writer went dead, as Lemmy would say "stone dead forever". It won't even read commercial cds, blank cd-rs, nothing. It happened overnight with no prompting or misuse from me. Yamaha has stopped producing writers and refused to offer any support; now I see why. Do yourself a favor and run from this unit. You will be happy for about 12 months like I was, then really upset you wasted your money and installation time on this garbage. My 5 year old 4x HP writer that originally came with the computer is going strong. I will never buy any Yamaha related product again.
Now my orignal review. Which I have downgraded from 5 to 1 star. I would give this zero if I could. Just read the other negative reviews and decide for yourself. Don't say we didn't warn you. Pop in that cd-r and let it rip. I can start a buring projcect, cook a pizza for 10-12 minutes and bam! It's done. Rockin' In The Free World! I have yet to burn a bad disc on this machine.
I installed it myself. The instructions were easy to follow and the tech support was great. Excellent Nero software was included to.
Highly recommended and by now should be available and a very good price.
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Summary: Yamaha Lightspeed recorder overrated!
Review: Bought this unit for the supposed virtues of the Audio Master technology. You'd expect for the big deal made of this in Yamaha's advertisement that there would be at least one sentence on how to use it in the manual. Nothing. Nada!
I installed the software and searched all the menus. Still nothing! I emailed Yamaha's customer support. Nothing!
Intrigued, I made an audio recording and compared it to my
trusty Plextor 12/10/32. Holy smokes! Using 2X and 4X speeds I compared the recordings to the original MP3 with both recorders. First the Yamaha. Well yes, it sounded very good indeed on my speakers, but not quite as relaxed or smooth as the original. Next the Plextor. Hmm....can't seem to tell the original from the copy, it's really so damn close! Tell you what, Yamaha, maybe I didn't use your vaunted audio master feature, but I can't know and I don't care. Oh, and one last thing. Every Apple computer comes with only OSX preinstalled. Thanks a lot for forcing me to have to install the obselete OS9 to use your player!
That makes it really useful!
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Summary: Turn down the volume!!!
Review: I actually have the 24x16x40 Burner by Yamaha but my brother has this one as well. We have had no problems with it and it works just fine. The only problem I have with it is it is sooooo loud. I honestly think they need to put a muffler on it or something because I have to turn my speakers up most of the time to hear the sound over the Cdrom. I try not to use this for reading Cds but sometimes you just forget which tray you put it in. Go ahead and get it but get used to the noise.
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Summary: Excellent CDDA Extractor.
Review: I already had a decent CDRW (made by Teac); what I REALLY wanted was a decent IDE/ATAPI digital audio ripper. A lot of the problem is software -- 50% of which is Win2k/XP's lousy ATAPI support for CDDA extraction. The other 50% is the lack of applications that can rip from ATAPI. My Yamaha came bundled with a specialized version of Liquid Player. I've plugged in two CD's so far, and the import speed has been nothing short of phenomenal: It rips the songs off the CD cleanly, without errors, in seconds! Power to Yamaha for making a CDRW a musician can appreciate.
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Summary: Nothing but trouble...
Review: I bought this CD-RW Drive about a month and a half ago and have had nothing but trouble since. Installation probably isn't a problem if you know what you're doing, but don't count on Yamaha's directions to get you through. It took me hours to figure them out. It does burn CDs fast when it actually decides to work, which I have found to be only about 30-40% of the time. I've gotten several different error messages the rest of the time. I have played around with the settings and tried slowing it down, but the drive is still incredibly tempermental. Recently it has started not recognizing CDs at all. If I try and burn anything, it won't let me because it says there's no disk in the drive. If I put a normal data CD in the drive, it won't read it. I am very unsatisfied and have to believe there are better options out there.
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Summary: You get what you pay for
Review: I bought this drive because the store was out of the Plextor and Sony I wanted. The Yamaha was a bit more, but they have a good reputation and the 8mb buffer sounded impressive. Installation was a breeze, XP Home recognized it immediately. Comes with great software (Nero 5.5) and a blank CD. I have only used it a couple of times and had no problems. It isn't nearly as loud as I thought it would be, but it is louder than my older slower cd-rw. This drive certainly is fast. I was burning stuff just to watch it go. It's amazing how fast it is. I have a PIII 1 ghz with 512 mbRam and with the large buffer I can easily perform other functions on my pc while its burning.
On a side note, its also very nice looking. I would definately recommend buying this drive if you want it all.
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Summary: not the best....
Review: I expected better from a brand such as Yamaha. As soon as the year warranty expired so did the drive!
Rating:
Summary: not the best....
Review: I expected better from a brand such as Yamaha. As soon as the year warranty expired so did the drive!
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