Tascam CD-RW 700 professional recorder

[Joseph Galea]

I own this recorder. Where cd-rws are concerned, it does not read from TDK,Traxdata and Smartbuy. It always says 'Disc Error'.   But strange enough it reads Maxell cd-rws.  May this be a fault in the recorder?  Another recorder that I own, Teac cd recorder does read all the mentioned brands.  When recording normal cd-rs, it works on all brands.  Your views are solicited please.

[dbminter]

It's hard to say for certain.  Could be a fault in the hardware or it could simply be the laser in the unit isn't very good to begin with.  Since it can read some CD-RW but not most of the others you tested, that's more odds on average a fault in the device.  However, you wouldn't be able to tell unless you got another one of these units and tested it.  Otherwise, it would be down to the laser used in the device.  It's having a reflectivity issue reading those CD-RW's.  Which would mean if you wanted to use those particular CD-RW's, you'd have to try a different model of drive.