[net.audio] Hitachi DA-1000

kpk@gitpyr.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) (11/23/85)

A local stereo warehouse that deals in discontinued & floor sample
merchandise has a Hitachi DA-1000 CD player for $200.  They CLAIM
it originally sold for $1000.

It looks nice.  It sounds nice (on the only CD I own).  Is this a
good buy.  It comes "with a full manufacturer's warranty" but is
unboxed and undocumented.

Just an odd "feature"... it holds the disc vertically!.

Does anyone in netland own one?  Any known problems with them?

                            Thanks,
                                kpk@gatech.GTNET

Disclaimer of responsibility: I am not responsible

rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (11/23/85)

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You might try looking it up in Audio magazine. Len Feldman reviewed
it a couple of years ago. A year later he put in a short note
commending himself for exposing this player as a real dog - which he
did <not> do in the original article.  However, this is the <only>
reference I have ever seen in a public magazine to <anything> being a
really bad design. THerefore, one might expect it really was awful.
I'd buy something else myself - even at $50.

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