Took a chance and bought this unit at a pawn shop for $50.00. Loaded it with the 190 discs that I had and and glad that I took the chance. It plays the disc's with no problems. I have read the other reviews and have noticed the talk about the random play. I guess that's one feature I'm not too worried about because I haven't used it yet and probably won't. I'm also not worried about entering the titles into the unit either even though I have done a few and agree that it is a hassle. That's why I never did the rest. I just made a copy of the song titles from the CD's and placed them in a binder with the slot number that they are in and I'm happy with that. I have it connected to a Sherwood Receiver with Bose 201 V speakers. I'm happy with the sound it puts out and the ability to change a disc from one end of the rack to the other by using the dial. The only gripe I have is when I use it for recording songs onto a reel to reel or cassette tape, it sometimes only plays through one speaker until I wiggle the output wired and then it plays through both speakers. I've compensated for that by checking it before hand so I won't have the problem when I start recording. It's a great machine overall.

I have now had my unit well over a decade. I have had no issues with it. The XL-MC334 has suprised me to the up most. I was sceptical when I purchased it due to all the mechanical parts, however 12+ years later here it sits playing as I type along with all the rest of the HI-FI gear. The unit is easy to upgrade to provide the sound one would expect for a HI-FI system. I have to tip my hat to the XL-MC334.


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200 cd capacity digital output easy to operate good quality output

could hold more cds!

I managed to find one of these amazing players from my local audio shack. I put all my cds in the machine at once now I don`t have to worry about all the hassle of changing them ever again. My machine is psychic when it plays randomly it knows all the right things to play, i wonder if this is intentional JVC? Never skips and has great sound i havent been happier with any cd player.

Disc searching ability (though more option are always welcome). Convenience CompuLink compatibility CD-Text compatibility

No CD-RW support No MP3 support No disc title memory

I found this little (little?) gem during a quest for the XL-MC302 (http://www.audioreview.com/CD+Players/JVC+XL-MC302/PRD_123908_1586crx.aspx) which introduced me to the wonderful world of Crutchfield. Since that other unit had apparently been discontinued, I decided to give this one a whirl. Hey, for $200, you can't go too wrong, and this was about 50% less than my first JVC CD player that had in the 80's, so it was a pretty easy decision. When it arrived, I was slightly shocked by how large the shipping box was. Ok, lots of packing material inside, I figured, and expected a smaller box within. Well, it WAS smaller, but barely. When I got this beast out, well, it's big. Luckily, it's not much bigger than it needs to be though, especially when you consider that about 95% of the unit's volume is dedicated to the CD storage mechanism, unlike the smaller single players which are essentially a small 2"x8"x6" drive assembly, a small PC board & PS, surrounded by lots of empty space (Single CD players could be so much thinner these days). I have a modest CD collection of approximately 130 discs, so I wasn't hurting for storage with this thing. I was eager to see it in action, so I immediately started adding the discs. This was probably the most tedious setup process I had ever gone through with Hi-Fi equipment, including cabling. If you don't bother with labeling the CDs, then the process will only take a couple minutes, but you'll pay for the haste soon enough when you try to locate a CD later. A keyboard would make title input much faster, but instead, you're stuck with the front dial on front panel buttons for selecting characters (like entering your name for a high score on a video game), or a few buttons on the remote. If you're near-sighted like me, the front panel is the more convenient of the two since the blue FL display is hard to make out if your vision is a bit weak (I still prefer the look of the old orange backlit LCD displays of the 80's RX7-VBK era). Either way, this process will take you a while to complete if you have a respectable number of discs. I spent the better part of the afternoon feeding it titles. The player does support CD Text, but that probably wont make people's lives much easier, since to date, I've only found three CDs that incorporate it. If you do have such a disc, then the player will program itself with the title an

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I've had this product for several years, and it has worked great for me, no mechanical problems at all. The player makes quite a bit of noise when changing discs, but it will play even badly scratched cds and CDR's. Entering the CD names is a big pain. If you only had to do it once, it wouldn't be a big deal, but once your CD collection outgrows its 200 disc capacity, it requires a lot of effort to swap old, unused CD's out and put new ones in.
My only big gripe about this player is its random function.
DO NOT BUY THIS PLAYER IF RANDOM IS IMPORTANT TO YOU!!!
The random function will only play about 10 CD's and will only randomize between those. Very poor when considering there are 200 discs in the player!
Otherwise a quality player.

200 Disc Capacity

Slow, entering disc names

Not a bad machine. I have had no problems with it skipping. My one complaint is lack of a keyboard input, entering the disc info is a major pain. For the money, I would recommend.

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Available now at closeout prices; works great if you have a JVC receiver; 32-characters each for artist and title

No PC keyboard interface for entry of titles; mediocre DAC; but what do you want for $150

Picked this up at Sam's for $149. They had two dozen, so I'm guessing they bought up a bunch of the remaining ones in advance of JVC's bringing out the "new" model. (The next model down in the JVC lineup has already been replaced.) Am using the machine only to store and access disks, and as a disk transport--using digital input to my receiver and letting the receiver's DAC process the data. In this role, and with a JVC receiver, it's a great product at the price. Even though there's no ability to use a PC keyboard for data entry, you can use JVC's "text compulink" feature to enter disk titles from the on-screen display on your TV. You must use remote's cursor buttons to select letters from the display, and it's not as quick as a keyboard; but it's got to be a lot easer than doing it from the front panel of the machine. You can also use the on-screen display to search for a disk by artist, title, and category, and to select and play. My unit was manufactured in Sept., 1999, and the "random" feature seems to work correctly, so JVC may have solved the problem reported by some purchasers of earlier models. All in all, a great value and a very good product for what I bought it for--as an easy way to access my disk collection while I wait for the prices to come down on the 300-disk DVD/CD machines that include good DACs, like the Pioneer 727 and equivalent Elite machine.

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very good price

bought it for only 169.-- at shop4.com before they raised the price to 179.--.
Spent previously 350.-- for a Sony 100 disc changer, which skipped all the time.
JVC works great. Easy labelling of disc's possible.
Display of disc/songs can also be viewed on TV or Receiver if you own a RX 1028 or 888 .
Definetely worth to spend the extra 20 bucks over the 222 model, which has no digital output and no labelling possibility.

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Quality

Not a bad overall product for the price but Pioneer and Sony make similar systems that perform better. I got a deal on mine for $184 from mczone.com so I had to buy it.

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I bought the JVC over the Pioneer and Sony mega changers and am very pleased with the sound quality (I have it going through a Kenwood receiver and Mission speakers). But after going through the disc loading exercise (set aside an uninterrupted afternoon) I found that discs were skipping badly. I returned the unit only to be told that about 1 in 10 or so units skip!! Now, the replacement that I have loaded up is also skipping on about half my CDs. No other review has mentioned this problem, so I'm not sure whether I have been very unlucky or whether I should opt for the Pioneer or Sony. It is very disheartening to have to unload and reload all of the CDs, but I might give them one more chance because I do like the unit when it works.