Keith, yep, I have the Pioneer PD-F1007. It has only dumped the memory twice in the several years I've had it -- but that's twice too much!
Ironically, I had it unplugged for several weeks after moving, and it didn't lose anything. One day I came home and it had lost everything (several months...
Kevin, those are the decks I'm looking at, too. Also the Tascam 222 (can't remember the whole model name), which puts a cassette tape deck and CD burner in the same shell. Probably won't get that, though. I only have a few cassettes of self-recorded live stuff that I want to dub to CD, and I can...
Barton, thanks for the info re my 520. It's nice to have a sense of confidence about this product. Since reading all about the problems folks are having with the Sony 360 DVD player on audioreview.com I'm just waiting for my DVD player to fail. So I've decided to replace it before that happens...
Keith, it seems like I've been reading this thread off and on for months! If Sony is smart and took a look at your Web site, they'd learn how much money you've spent on their stuff and take care of your deck.
Anyway, I just wanted to chime in and find out what the consensus of the JE520 is...