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Relatively clear and detailed for the price. I currently use a bel canto dac2 in the basement and a benchmark dac1 in the living room, both hooked up to very good clear transparent systems and I switch the living room dac from the rega planet cd player to the optical coming from the changer when I just want background rotating music but I have listened to the audio outs of the changer and they don't sound bad at all. I have had many components come through my system and this is not bad sounding at all.
My point is any problem with this changer doesn't seem to be inherent in all of them because mine has played cds and cdrs that I have burned myself for many years. But the changer has plenty of memory to name your own discs using the changer just not to remember a lot of cd encoded text for some reason, but I use a lot of cd encoded text, more than three quarters loaded in the changer are cd encoded text so you may not have a problem with that at all. I've had this player for over five years without a problem but looking at the reviews it appears to be hit or miss although people tend to more outgoing when they have a complaint.
I see some people complaining about the sound of this thing but I think it sounds very good , especially for the price. If the changer ever died I would definitely get another one at least until I can find a good music server for a decent price that's not my fan noisy computer. The changer doesn't like to play some cdrs in obviously bad shape so I have had to re-record some that I loaded when I first got this unit.
My only real gripe is the memory can't hold all the cd's text that have text encoded on them so when scanning through you may find some rotating blank cd's and if you try to name the cd yourself and the changer reads that it's a text cd it won't let you name it using the changers own text memory.
I will definitely order thru Amazon again and would encourage others to do the same. It shipped quickly and was delivered in plenty time for Christmas. I am very pleased with the CD Changer I bought for my husband. I had looked for years in the stores and could never find one.
And the price is right. This 300 disc CD changer works great. Easy to use and sounds great.
I've owned this machine for 3 years and it has now sat in the box for the last two. But there must be a more automated way like using wireless access to identify songs like on my media center server. Loading CD is cumbersome into the correct slot Possible answer is to create a thin 'slide' like extension that can be anchored to the opening and provides a ramp into the slot. 2.
It scratches the CD it plays Intolerable. 3. I've tried different type of Cd's and it's hit or miss. My final solution was to create a Jukebox of my own with desktop computer and ripping music directly to it. 4. I have only three complaints: 1.
It won't play some personal burnt CD with my play-lists. This solves all four of my issues so I will not be looking for another hardware solution again. I should swing away into discrete depressions in the top. Labeling is a pain Not sure how to improve this.
Searching is fairly fast and easy too.I have not tried all features as yet but really like this machine and recommend it to anyone who wants to store their music, create play-groups, etc. Instructions, while poorly written, were easy to follow and I was up and running in no time. Do not like fact that once playing the disk title is not displayed but maybe I've missed something I need to do to make that happen. was quite fast.
I bought this to replace a single disc unit that had died. Sound is excellent and searching is fairly fast. Also not sure that I can label each song playing but may not want to do that anyway. Frankly, I was looking for a player with about 100 disk capacity as I do not have many CDs.
The only issue I have with labeling is that there is a lack of sufficient space to add some complete titles but with clever abbreviations, it works. Good buy for the money. Since there are not any on the market, I decided to go with the Sony 300 disk player, giving me the capacity to add to my collection.set up was clear, simple and easy. Loading was relatively easy as was naming the disks-no real need for a keyboard-spinning the dial to enter letters,etc.
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