jls@uunet.UU.NET (Jim Showalter) (02/08/91)
Sigh. The eternal battle of sound quality vs convenience. I want very much to find a CD player that both sounds very good and has a carousel for more than 1 CD at a time. (I hold parties in which the participants are often rather indisposed when the CD is over.) I've heard that both Denon and Sony claim to make such units, but ad copy is just ad copy.
erkamp@arc.ab.ca (Bob Erkamp) (02/11/91)
In article <9417@uwm.edu> igor!yoda!jls@uunet.UU.NET (Jim Showalter) writes: > >Sigh. The eternal battle of sound quality vs convenience. I want very >much to find a CD player that both sounds very good and has a carousel >for more than 1 CD at a time. (I hold parties in which the participants >are often rather indisposed when the CD is over.) I've heard that both >Denon and Sony claim to make such units, but ad copy is just ad copy. Well I've had a Sony CDP-500 for over a year now with no problems and a fair bit of use. I beleive it's been replaced with a CDP-705 (or something like that). A friend of mine recently puchased the ES (Sony's 'audiophile' series) version of this and he is very happy with it as well. Some of the nice features (at least the one's that sold me) are Custom File which is the ability to save a program for a disk in memory along with a 10 character alphanumeric display for upto 227 disks (not quite there yet). The 705 also allows you to save volume settings with each song as well!!! This was the main reason I bought the Sony as I only need enter a program once for a CD and never worry about it again. Apart from that it's got all your usual feautures. Single/Multi Play, Shuffle, Single/Multi Programmed Play, Fader, various time displays and the 705 has volume control as well. I believe that all the new versions of these players are using some form single bit MASH technology. Personnally I can't tell the difference sound wise (comments?). All in all very happy with this beast. Bob