jab@uokvax.UUCP (05/06/84)
#R:hou2a:-33600:uokvax:1000009:000:1929 uokvax!jab May 6 12:15:00 1984 I have a Technics SLP-7 that I purchased about a month and a half ago. I can't really compare it to the other models, since I resolved myself to the fact that USUALLY CD PLAYERS ONLY DIFFER IN FEATURES FROM OTHER PLAYERS. This isn't a provable fact, but for most of the non-professional players, I believe it's true. I paid $500 for mine, and got five "free" albums, so it really would have cost me $400 if I had decided to get those albums anyhow. I like my player a LOT, and find that combined with my 50-watt/channel Harmon Kardin amp and my Infinity RSb speakers, I got an amazing clarity that I never expected. There are some CD's that should show off a player, and I DON'T believe that an "1812" is a reasonable test. Buy/borrow/steal the following albums and try them out on the player you're looking at: Windham Hills: "December," by George Winston - piano solos (does it feel like there's a soloist in the next room? If not, check your speakers before continuing.) Telarc: "Vaughan Williams/Barber/Grainger/Faure'" - St. Louis Symphony (in particular, the "Adagio for Strings") Telarc: Tchaikovsky, Symphony #4 - Cleveland Orchestra (in particular, the finale) Telarc: "Holst/Handel/Bach" - Cleveland Symphonic Winds (the second movement of the "First Suite in E-flat" is a nice test of clarity. Listen for the E-flat clarinets maintaining the eighth note rhythms throughout.) DG: Saint-Saens "Symphony No. 3 (Organ)" - Berlin Philharmonic, Von Karajan (listen in the finale for the piano when the strings are introducing the theme.) (I understand that the Telarc of this symphony is quite good, also.) Returning to the matter at hand, the SLP-7 has "skip selection" (forwards and backwards), "fast forward" (and back), "repeat selection/album". Not a whole lot of frills, but I usually listen to an album from a given point to the end of the album, so I don't care. Jeff Bowles Lisle IL
waynez@houxh.UUCP (W.ZAKARAS) (05/09/84)
WELL ALMOST, I purchased a SLP 8 for $399.00 this weekend (plus 5 freebies) this brings me dowm to $299.00. I borrowed a few CD's from a friend with a SONY CDP 101 , one was really beat up. Intentionally!! for error correction analysis. On the Sony the CD payed fine, on the SLP 8 it skipped and went so far as to not play one track at all!!! Sony's error correction must be better. NOTE: The SLP 8 has many more features such as starting a track at any time into the track eg. 2 minutes 20 seconds into the song. Also when indexing becomes availableon CD's , the SLP 8 is ready for it. This may also be useful if IBM starts putting software on CD's as mentioned previously on the net. LAST NOTE: I'm tickled with my new toy and wouldn't give it up for any turntable WayneZ...
ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (05/11/84)
The SLP7 handles indexing as well. Read the manual. The deck must be in standby mode. Press the search bar and the index numbers will click up. Then press play. -Ron