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