[net.audio] Grey market good question

chris@scgvaxd.UUCP (Chris Yoder) (02/17/85)

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Help!  I just bought what I thought was a "made for use in the USA" SONY 
portable disk player, and discovered when I brought it home that it was the
Japanese version...  I found out that the AC power adapter is 100 volt and
what I want to know is if this there will be any long term (or short term for
that matter) harm in using a power adapter that expects 100 volt AC and gets
110 volt AC (or whatever the standard in the US is).

If the sales slip didn't say "exchanges only, no refunds" I'd take the thing
back and demand my money back. As it is I'm thinking of doing just that as no
one told me that the unit was a "grey market" unit, but if there will be no
harm in using the 100 volt power adapter, I think I'll just risk the
(potential) problems with the warrenty and avoid the hastle (I'll never go to
that stereo store again though).

Please reply via mail, if there is enough interest I will post a summary to
the net.

				Thanks in advance,

				-- Chris

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