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  | Sony CDP-CX300 MegaStorage 300-CD Changer
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 Tremendous functionality, but slow and fragile | |
| On the plus side: The sound quality is excellent. The grouping, text display, search, and other functions are great. It's really cool having 300 CDs at your fingertips. On the minus side: Random shuffle play is a little frustrating, because it takes a good 10-15 seconds to unload a disc, choose another, load the new disc, choose a track, and start playing. After a while these long gaps get on your nerves. The big minus is this machine's fragility. I received mine as a Christmas gift. It worked great for about 12 months, then one day jammed up while loading a CD from the carousel into the drive slot. From that point it wouldn't work at all, the door wouldn't open, and the carousel tray wouldn't spin. My 300 CDs were held hostage inside! I had to take the cover off and manually remove all of my CDs. I then took the player to a repair shop. Two months and over $150.00 later it's working like new again. This machine is basically a dinosaur anyway. (...) | |
 Will revolutionize your cd habits! | |
| I got one of these about 2 years ago. I chucked all my jewel cases and got my shelf space back. I love the random play and being able to ban disliked tracks. It survived a move and spending 8 months in storage (by the way, it remembered all the disc information that I had typed in.) Recommeded -- keep a computer listing of all your cds with title, artist, group, and slot number just in case. It also makes it easy to print out differently organized directories. Bad news: I had problems typing the cd information in -- I had to type super-slow or the "MegaStorage" wouldn't register the chars. Also, be very careful in moving it around -- all my cds fell over inside the unit during my move. And could the remote control have any more buttons??? | |
| Best Music Purchase in Years! | |
| I have had the same CD player (Denon, single disc)since 1988. It was a great player, but doesn't even play in the random mode. It has been repaired once or twice and is in need again. It was time for new equipment. After researching online and in person, I stayed within my budget and purchased the Sony CDP CX300. I love this machine! I have about 260 CD's of many types of music. All CDs are now loaded and labeled in the player, arranged in groups and ready to program or play in random/shuffle mode. I love doing that! All those years of music, randomly playing a tune from here and there. As one reviewer above said, you hear tunes you forgot you had. I can't say enough. Is it a perfect player with every option I want? No...but I don't think that one is available yet...and if it was, It would be at a steep price. I paid $289 for mine and feel I got quite a piece of equipment for the price. It will certainly change the way you listen to your collection. I highly recommend this player. I also suggest going to the Sony website to find out more about the specs. There is a link to Sony on this page. Have fun and happy tunage! |
