--- "J. C. R. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope it WAS the 80 minute MDs that did this. I am about to
> petition
> Best Buy to special order a JE520 as a replacement to my junked out
> JE510, and I would like to think that it will last more than a mere
> 13
> months!
I'm sure it will. There don't seem to be an awful lot of complaints
about the JE5x0 series around* (unlike, say, the Sharp 7xx portables
- though I own a 702 and it's a lot less trouble than the Sony
deck!), which suggests that I've got a lemon (or I've *turned* it
into a lemon).
(* Excepting the micro-switch problem with the 500/510s).
It was ill-starred from the off...
I got a deck chiefly for MD-MD dubbing, easier labelling and to make
digital copies with a coax input (my old Marantz has an optical out,
but is prone to skipping), but as soon as I hooked up the 520 to my
Copland CDP I encountered a terrible earth loop hum (not the Sony's
fault, it should be said; only a minor irritation - doesn't affect
the integrity of digital copies).
Soon after I discovered that the analogue inputs on the 520 don't
have sufficient headroom to prevent clipping from loud vinyl sources
(my Ortofon MC/NVA pre-amp combination is a fair few dB above
standard line-level), meaning I had to invest in an in-line
attenuator.
More recently, I've been getting weird drop-outs when recording to
TDK Fine and coloured HiSpace discs (someone suggested the onset of
optical block failure); the latter in particular are *still* faulty
on playback though Sharp and JVC portables cope perfectly well with
them.
All indicators that I should've taken the thing back *well* before
the 12-month guarantee expired. Oh well...
Mike.
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