[net.audio] Sony CD Compact Player

bees@drutx.UUCP (DavisRB) (11/20/84)

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[ Well, since ihnp4 has been down, and I have had no responses to my
  article except locally, I'll repost.  Sorry If you've already seen this. ]
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This is the correct name for the Sony D-5, rather than Discman.  I'm
glad they left the 'man' off the thing, I was getting tired of the *man
business.  See the December Stereo Review for a review of the D-5.

I just purchased a D-5 two days [a week, now] ago, and am very
pleased.  It seems to be all it has been said to be.  It fits very
nicely at work next to my terminal.  It is about the same size as a
stack of 4 CD boxes.  It also sounds great at home connected to my
hi-fi.

The unit comes with an AC adaptor, and a line-out cable which has
normal audio plugs on one end and a mini jack on the other.  There is a
car adaptor available, and a battery pack not available around here
yet.  The battery pack hold 6 C cells, and encases the D-5 unit.  I
doubt I will have much use for the battery pack.

The features are very simple.  There is a large play button that
doubles as a pause.  There are skip forward and a skip backward buttons
that double as search forward and backward with the push of a smaller
mode button.  The mode, AMS or SEARCH, is displayed in the LCD window
on the left front.  Also displayed in the window is the current track
number and the amount of real time into that track.  Pressing a small
button next to the window causes these to change to the number of
tracks remaining and the total amount of real time remaining on the
disc.  There is a power on/off slide switch and a thumb wheel volume
knob.  A headphone mini-jack is located on the right side, and the
power-in and line-out mini jack on the back.

I view this machine as an entry into the CD world, since I don't
already own a home unit.  It is a relatively cheap way to get started
and when I can afford a better home unit, I'll just leave the D-5 at
work!

Now if I could only find a set of headphones worthy...

Ray Davis
AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
{ihnp4, houxe, stcvax!ihnp4}!drutx!bees, (303)538-3991

PS: for those of you in Colorado: you can only find the D-5 at Listen
Up Audiosystems in Denver or Boulder.  I don't know about the Evergreen
store.  Listen Up managed to buy the entire Colorado stock of these.
They are going very fast at $299 (Denver) and $295 (Boulder).