TEAC CD-P650-B Compact Disc Player with USB and iPod Digital Interface (Black)
- USB Port for iPod Digital Interface and USB Memory Rec/Play
- Digital Audio Connection from iPod via USB Docking Cable (not included)
- MP3 Recording from CD to USB Memory Device. Frequency Response: 20-20kHz (plus/ minus 2dB)
- Burr Brown 1791ADBR, 24-bit/192kHz Sampling, Advanced Segment, Audio Stereo Digital-to-Analogue Converter
- Remote Control Included
Chantelle Reid
Great player with some limitations.
There have been few reviews of this player online, and it's mystery as to why not. Most reviews want to compare it to the Onkyo C-7030 CD player, which I own, so I will start there. Let me start off by saying that I bought this item through Amazon's "Warehouse Deals", at a great price. The listing stated (as they always do) that the item is "Used-Like New" or "good" or "acceptable". The listing then describes the reason why it is used and the imperfections within. Mine was listed at "less than 5% cosmetic damage on the top of the item, so I gave it a try. The player arrived double-boxed, and all items inside (remote, cords, manuals, etc) seem to be in their original packaging. I could not tell this was used. I inspected the player itself, and found a small (very small) indentation on the top and had to really look to see it. Thus, the "used' term. This item was absolutely pristine, and once placed in the stereo rack, the imperfection disappeared completely. I will now use the Warehouse Deals with confidence in the future. Onto the player. If you are debating whether to buy this unit, or the Onkyo C-7030, the question is whether the price difference is justifiable. In my opinion, yes it is. The Onkyo player has more depth, a wider soundstage, and definitely more bass. In fact, the Onkyo player has to be the best deal ever in stereo equipment for the price it is offered at. I bought the Teac player at a $80.00 price drop for a second room, and it was certainly worth it for that. If it was going to be my main unit, I would spring for the Onkyo each and every time; there is definitely a difference in sound. If you are a casual listener and don't care much about the technical differences in sound, the Teac will serve you well. The main differences between the two players are these: 1) Sound quality - The Onkyo wins hands down. If you want the best sound at the best price, and this is your main unit in your stereo / home theater system, you will want the Onkyo. It has the better overall sound, and the soundstage is unreal. The bass and depth of the sound are also very pronounced, and your CD collection will come alive with this unit. The Teac sounds wonderful, but as many reviewers have already written, the mid-range on this unit is the focal point. The highs are a bit shrill, and the bass takes a bit of a back seat to this. What this does mean is that your vocals will be way up front, and if your music is vocally driven this unit will let you hear just about every word the singer is saying. Also, the Teac sound is very clean and precise. If you have never heard the Onkyo, the Teac will sound fantastic to you. It really is a great unit at a great price. 2) USB access. You can record music from your CDs, onto a flash drive. I'm not sure who would want to do this, but I'm guessing that anyone who doesn't have a CD burner on their computer might burn CDs onto a flash drive and load up an MP3 player from there. 3) NO eject button on the remote to for the CD tray itself. This is completely baffling to me. I didn't take away a star for that, as I could have but the price vs performance keeps it at 5-stars. Why Teac wouldn't put an eject button on the remote is strange. I'm guessing that the USB control button would have been that button, but they wanted to keep the remote small, which it is. It makes zero sense to have a power on/off button, and then make you bend down to open the tray to load the disc. It could be a deal breaker for some. In conclusion, aside from the missing eject button, if you are a casual listener vs an audiophile, you will love this player at this price. It looks good, and it plays superbly. If you are an audiophile, and you want the best bang for your buck, then get the Onkyo C-7030 while they last. It is without a doubt, the best player on the market for that price. I've got a higher end Marantz CD player, and I have much trouble hearing the difference between the Onkyo and it. As a second player, or you just play CDs some time, the Teac is the way to go.
Booter Collins
Stunning sound quality!
If you’re used to listening to MP3s on a phone or tablet, or CDs on an older player, wait until you hear the stunning quality of the digital-to-audio converter in this unit. The “read time” is a tad slow, but nothing really objectionable. I opted for this unit after reading a comprehensive review from a much more tech-savvy buyer, and I’m glad I did. The sound quality is stunningly real and true. I purchased this unit to replace my first player (a similar TEAC) that served me well for almost 30 years. I see no degradation in TEAC’s manufacturing or sound quality. In fact, it has only improved.
Jessica Nicholls
this Unit (TEAC CD-P650-B) is excellent. It is simple to use
For my purposes, this Unit (TEAC CD-P650-B) is excellent. It is simple to use, and the sound quality is first rate. I'm a music programmer for a radio station and I use this at home to review CDs. I use headphones exclusively, and could not be happier. Display features include: total playing time of Disc, elapsed time, and time remaining for each tune; which is important to me. Remote control is easy to use, but does have the drawback of no volume control on remote (requiring you to use small dial on the face of the unit) but as far as I'm concerned that's a relatively minor issue. Overall, an excellent unit, the price is right, sound quality is terrific. Bottom line: I'd buy it again.
Milliy Davis
Wide Dynamic Range, Clarity.
WOW!!! was my first impression when I spun the first CD. I had gotten use to the "muted" sound of compressed files, but the wide dynamic range of this player is a FULL breath of ambiance. I've got a classic analogue amp, and this unit completes it. My TV has a built-in DVD player, that I was using as a CD feed to my hi-fi amp, but even that was "plain." This unit clears up the signal and sounds as good as the best LPs used to. We can easily hear the different voices of Pentatonix, and the multiple strings of the Annie Moses Band. Great device!
Jessie Mae Kent
Great!
I wanted this recorder due to ability to read MP3 music files from a flash drive. Plus one the has the option to record to a MP3 device or flash drive. Works great. Teac has been around along time, so I assume Material and Durability are good. Sounds good when volume is cranked up (this is when speakers, cross over network wakes up). Works great.
Sarrah Johnson
So far so good!
Decent little player at a great price. Good DAC, which is the main reason i went for it. I have positive experience with this company as well, i own a Teac reel to reel and tape dubbing deck that both still work and are older than most ppl on here to boot! Teac is one of those companies that makes some outstanding equipment, as well as some not so outstanding stuff. If u know what to look for then a large majority of their products are a winner. This unit seems to be in the quality category thus far. It's solidly built, mechanically quiet, has good specs regarding CD playback, a good DAC, and a not-so-many frills approach with the exception of the USB recording feature, which i haven't tried yet so i can't speak about it intelligently anyway... So far so good! Ill update if anything changes good or bad but thus far this one is a winner and i can recommend it without reserve.
Juvelyn Licaros
A big, heavy thing that reliably plays CDs (and some other things)
I feel somewhat unqualified to review this item because I don't understand why a CD player should be so heavy or expensive. But I can tell you about my naive experience using this one for the last few weeks. First, if you put a CD in it, then it will play the CD. This sounds like a trivial observation, but I have owned several mini-systems that refuse to play CDs some of the time. This one's not picky. It accepts your CD and turns it into sound. It plays scratched CDs that skip heavily in my car. It passed over one heavily scratched part of a track, and then I rewound it and played fine. Pretty impressive. I plugged two different flash drives into the USB port. It couldn't read one of them, but found all the songs on the other one just fine. I tried reformatting the flash drive that it wouldn't read. It didn't help. My guess is that it isn't compatible with some flash drives. It also only plays mp3 and WMA files. FLAC seems like a notable omission. You'd figure they could fit a FLAC codec somewhere in the 12 pounds and third of a cubic foot that this unit occupies. I don't dock it any points for having some USB and file shortcomings. All that stuff is a bonus for me. I bought this thing to play CDs, which it does perfectly.
Lynn Vanessa Isaac
Wonderful CD player!
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Amber Griffin
Excellent Unit! Especially considering the price.
This unit has exceeded all of my expectations. The Compact Disc player works flawlessly and sounds great. The real surprise here is how good the USB .mp3 files sound. To me, it seems fairly clear that this is the portion of this combination unit that is most useful now that the mp3 market has virtually made the compact disc obsolete. Through this USB input I am able to play my .mp3 files and folders in almost any fashion I desire, single song repeat, folder repeat, entire USB repeat and shuffle play. The sound is better than that of any other .mp3 player I have ever listened to. I am hearing an openness and nuances of sound that heretofore I had only heard on an actual compact disc. The price makes this unit especially attractive. Negatives? I have found none yet and I have been listening to the unit almost non-stop since it has arrived. If you decide to purchase this, expect to hear your .mp3 files as never before. I recommend this to anyone!
Kelly Johnson
Quality design, quality components, excellent all around
A typical CD player in this price range rarely meets high expectations. However, this TEAC CD-P650 manages to impress with a clean design, quality components, and excellent performance for its class. Frankly, if CDs were not declining in popularity I wouldn't be surprised to see this player go for twice the price. But the market has swung towards MP3 for obvious reasons and this TEAC provide a great bridge platform for those who still have CD collections but also want to take advantage of playing files directly from their MP3 players or USB storage. Add in the headphone jack with separate volume control and you have a unit that works just as well on its own as it does connected to your main audio system. I purchased my first and only CD player back in 1986. It's a TEAC single CD player that has been in my audio system to this very day and it has worked perfectly for 28 years (!). After recently rebuilding the subwoofer in my audio system to replace worn speakers, I started to do some research on the state-of-the-art in CD players. Overall, the technology has become more affordable, the CD mechanisms are less complex, and the D/A converters have been significantly refined. At this point, CD players have reached their pinnacle and mass-market manufacturers are certainly not investing any more in the technology. Even the high end of the market ($1000+ players) can only differentiate themselves by using higher quality power supplies and D/A sections designed to make the most of the brilliantly-conceived CD format. For most of us, a good quality basic player will do everything just as well. What attracted me to the TEAC CD-P650 was its high-quality appearance, its Burr-Brown D/A, and its ability to play a variety of digital files directly from an MP3 player or USB storage. Since more and more of our family's music is being purchased as MP3 from the start, I felt it was time to add MP3 capability (via iPod or USB stick) to my main audio system --something I had put off for a long time. When the CD-P650 arrived, I was immediately impressed with its quality construction and appearance. There is nothing cheap looking or feeling about it. The CD drawer moves solidly and no mechanical noise emanates from the unit when a CD is playing. Since I always take apart my stuff to see what's inside, I was pleasantly surprised to see a very thoughtfully laid out interior --among the cleanest of any consumer product I own. There's a separate power supply board, a large transformer, the D/A board, and only a few, neatly routed cables (several are shielded) between them. I was expecting less attention to detail in this low-cost unit but I was pleasantly surprised at the quality. The CD transport itself is very solid and the laser/spindle portion is nicely isolated from shock and vibration. There are gold-plated RCA output jacks, an optical output, and connections for a TEAC remote control system. The player comes with it's own remote control for accessing all functions (many of which can only be accessed with the remote as the front panel buttons are kept to a minimum). See my photos of the interior and you'll see what I mean about quality components. Fortunately, this CD-P650 operates and plays CDs and MP3s brilliantly. The two row, front panel display is easy to read and provides a scrolling display of the MP3 file/folder name currently playing. If a CD is playing, only the track number and time is visible. Upon playing my first few CDs it was clear that this TEAC is a refined design and easily exceeds the audio performance of my old player. My old TEAC player had a 2X oversampling D/A and a fifth order analog filter. This was good for its time 28 years ago, but modern D/As provide 8X oversampling and a cleaner output signal. I confirmed that the CD-P650 indeed uses the Burr-Brown PCM1791 D/A Converter among other high quality parts. Overall, I'm glad I found this player and am very happy with the upgrade to my system. The performance and quality has exceeded my expectations and provides a perfect bridge for playing my CDs and MP3s through my main audio system. This was a great purchase!