TascamCD-400U Rackmount CD/Media Player with Bluetooth Wireless and AM/FM Receiver

We purchase this unit for playing in the office/lobby enviroment. The product is well made, all buttons are very responsive. The buttons also feel firm and tight which indicate good components. All functions work as advertised. AM/FM radio has a dedicated output is a nice feature to have (so you can play CD/USB/SD at the same times with AM/FM). There are balanced output but we do not use. Rack-mount 1U is very compact and easy to deployNow, the media requirement (USB/SD) is rather boring and somewhat limited to what the company tests only. There are 2 documents that list the make and the model number of the USB and SD card. You must use these only otherwise, there is a very good chance that your current USB/SD card will not work. We are an IT company and we have lots of USB/SD cards laying around but none of them work with the unit. We have to purchase a specific ones (the ones that list in the product specifications), then it worksFinally, we wish if it can be controlled using a simple TCP/IP protocol instead of the aging and not user-friendly Telnet protocolOverall, highly recommended

When I first connected the Tascam CD-400U I was disappointed with the audio quality. I heard a grainy irritating distortion that was fatiguing and unpleasant to listen to. I was on the verge of returning the unit when I thought "that sounds like an over-driven stage". So I went into the menu and set the audio Attenuation control to -10dB. Immediately the distortion was gone and the audio quality is quite good. I believe the high output of the CD-400U without attenuation was over-driving the inputs to my Adcom preamp. Audio quality with -6dB of attenuation or greater is very good. I've given it the "serious listening" test with lights off, eyes closed, and a little buzz.and it gets a "thumbs up" rating. Sounds very good to me! I went from almost returning the product to a happy owner with a simple menu tweak. I was tempted to give only 4 stars because there is no digital output to feed my DAC but I had the option of buying other units with that feature and decided I like the 1U rack height and available tuners. In my opinion, it's a good buy.

I got this for my studio mainly because it has blue tooth though all the features are great. The noise floor seems to be very low, I like the assortment of output types (I use the XLRs) and all the controls have a professional feel. I also like the fact that you can configure the output power, similar to a mixing board.

Great sound, very functional features, XLR output connectors and convert CDs to mp3 is a welcome feature!

Good reception and audio quality. Installed at our campus TV studio to bring in local broadcast FM stations for encoding redistribution on our campus network (this is just a tuner, we feed this audio into a Dante transmitter for mixing and eventually to a Barix Instreamer for IP transmission across our network)