Excellent mechanism, build quality, reads cdrs, superb value, the most compact for its size

good sound quality, though worth upgrading with external DAC.

very well made, nice looking, and compact dimensions. compared to my 'Cambridge Audio'DAC, the sound was OK, but nowhere near as refined as the DAC.

Therefore, I use it with the cambridge DAC, which is the best dac Ive heard period.

Never played with the features, as I only need the 101 disc capacity, and to use it as I would a normal player.

the technics seems A LOT cheaper in the US than over here in UK. the UK retail price is £ 300, about $480 US !

highly recommended if youre looking for the most compact design, with Technics build quality.

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People seem to complain an awful lot about the noise this makes when it changes a CD. It does make a noise. But I am sure these people made a lot more noise when they had to get there butts off the couch to change a CD when they had a single CD player. This player is solid and it sounds good. What else could one ask for out of a CD player?... and yes, you don't have to get up off the comfy couch to change a CD. Stop being so picky.

Clean sound, quick, easy to load, CD-text, optical out and DTS, elegant design, CD-R support, smaller than average dimencion, plays CDRs

Loud changing CDs, no light inside, text can be entered/updated only from main unit(will be good do this by remote control or PC keyboard), relatively small capacity (111 vs 300 or 400), small LCD: no space to show artist, album, song information on one glance

Good unit. Many similar units have very rudimental CD-text functions. Seems the modern computer technology is not implemented here.

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EASY TO LOAD, INEXPENSIVE- $149 AT BRANDSMALL.COM, LOTS OF FEATURES, GOOD SOUND - ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, CONVENIENT!

KLUNKY SOUNDING WHEN CHANGING CD'S, NOT THE BEST BUILD QUALITY- BUT HEY ITS $149, NOT FOR CRITICAL LISTENING.

I AM VERY HAPPY WITH THIS CD PLAYER. I HAVE IT IN MY FAMILY ROOM SYSTEM WHERE IT HOLDS 1/3 OF MY CD COLLECTION, WHICH FOR THE MOST PART, ARE ONLY LISTENED TO IN THIS ROOM. THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT A HIGH-END PLAYER. I BOUGHT IT FOR CONVIENCE. AND CONVENIENT IT IS. WHEN WE HAVE FRIENDS OVER TO PLAY CARDS OR SOMETHING I JUST HIT FULL RANDOM, IT HASN'T REPEATED THE SAME SONG TWICE YET. IT'S LIKE HAVING MY VERY OWN RADIO STATION, MINUS THE ADS!

I AM GOING TO BUY A HIGHER END SINGLE DISC PLAYER FOR MORE CRITICAL LISTENING, SINCE(SOUND QUALITY WISE)THIS IS THE WEAKEST LINK IN MY SYSTEM, BUT FOR NON-CRITICAL LISTENING, BACKGROUND MUSIC, AND ENTERTAINING/PARTY MUSIC THIS CHANGER RATES A DEFINITE 5 STARS.

FOR VALUE IT DESERVES EVEN MORE THAN 5 STARS!!!

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quick, easy to load, CD-text, optical out.

kind of loud changing CDs.

a great CD player at a great price. It plays well, holds lots of CDs and doesn't cost alot.

Linear design. Friends go "wow" when you open the front panel. "Disc scan" tells the unit which slots to skip and makes for a fast shuffle. Unit is much smaller than carousels, especially depth-wise. Low price.

Text entry is clunky and slot-assigned instead of memory assigned. Lacks a disc selector knob. LCD display too small. Removing CDs with little "lever" kind of a pain when the unit is full. Shuffle feature doesn't cancel out tracks already played, so you can hear the same track more than once. All minor complaints.

Overall a very elegant solution to the flawed mega-carousel design. First off, here's why I hated the carousel:

I orignally purchased a JVC 200-disc carousel. Not a bad unit, I chose it over the equivalent Sony (same price) because it offered more display area for the text entry and also let you make separate entries for artist, title and genre (the Sony only gives you 13 characters total, that's it).

It turned out that the carousel is a HUGE pain. You can't easily tell what's in the player, and what's worse you can't change the next CD you want to play while a CD is already playing (because there's no way to get at the CD slot that will play next, since it's rotated inside the machine). You can only change the 25 discs that are visible on the opposite end of the carousel from the disc that is in play. So if you want to change the next CD that will play, you need to manually program the unit to play that slot next--very annoying.

Also annoying on a carousel is that if you want to do a shuffle and only have 50 or so CDs in the player, it will stop at every empty slot it hits and try to read a CD there before it removes that slot from it's memory. So at first you end up waiting a long time between track changes until it figures out which slots in the carousel are empty and can be skipped.

The dumbest thing on the JVC carousel though is that when you enter CD text (or the unit reads info off a prewritten CD-Text CD), it assigns the text not to memory, but to that SLOT in the player. That means if you remove that CD for another, the unit will continue to display the information from the old CD until you manually change or delete the text (or put in a new CD-Text CD that it can read). So you end up with tons of slots that display the wrong CD information.

Why they do this, when for over 10 years there have existed CD players that can recognize a CD and recall text from memory that you've entered previously for it, is beyond me. I guess they figure people will dump all their CDs in the unit and never change them, but since I have over 700 CDs this doesn't work for me.

Without a useful text feature it's unbelievably difficult to tell what is in the carousel, or to select a particular cd you want to hear, so I retuned the unit and bought the Technics SL-MC7. Warning: it does the dumb text slot-assignment thing too, making the text feature useless to me. But since it uses the much more elegant linear storage system instead of a carousel, you can easily get at and see ALL the CDs in the unit at once, so I don't really need the text feature.

Also, whenever you close the panel it does a quick disc scan to see which slots are occupied. So when you do a shuffle play, it already knows which slots to play and which ones to ignore right from the start, making disc changing >much< faster than with a carousel.

The noisy changer doesn't bother me, espeically since it is so much faster than a carousel (and the unit is a LOT smaller too). The little lever to remove CDs is kind of clunky to use, but only really needed whent he unit is chock full of CDs.

Unless you have a super high-end system, this unit should sound fine for you. Most all name-brand consumer CD players nowadays sound about the same, some are brigher than others but it's mostly a matter of EQ taste, not sound quality.

I do wish it had a disc selector knob like other units, instead of arrows and a keypad.

Overall though I'd recommend checking out the SL-MC7 before buying ANY mega changer carousel unit.

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Good, clean sound

The random changer is not random

I purchased this unit specifically to load multiple CD's and hit random. But it dows not perform well at random shuffle at all. It doesn't matter whther you have 4 discs or 90, this thing will pick the same doggone disc and track over and over. I find myself having to advance tracks because of repeats in as little as an hours worth of use. It's very frustrating if one aquired the product to handle random shuffling like I did.

It's almost spooky how often if goes to the same disc/track, like it's got it's own favorites.

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Graet Price when compare to other system,

Big sound while change CDs, hard to edite Cd title. No coaxial Digital Output. Hard to programing.

This CD changer is not so bad; however, as a customer, we always try to ask a product whit highest quality and function with low price. Well, it is just a dream. I use this unit as Cd transport. It seems that it was wonderful until I get Panasonic DVD-A7, which drive the sound better. Well, it is still not bed and wound be perfectly for MD recording when you try to mix a lot of CD into one MD. However, I do hate the programing those sound track because it is really hard to do so. Generally Speaking, I am satisfied with it so far unless I can find a cheaper product promote the same level of quality. After vist me, my boss told me I got to sell it to hime while I want to buy a new CD-player. In brief, I worth the price and would be high recommand if you do wnat to use the programing function.
PS. the remote control is somehow a little @x%(*^&%*$^%#

Ditigal process - Technics ACS500d
Speaker - Sony SAV-E815ED
Receriver - Technics SA-AX7 ( PS This uint is reat for 100W as 6 ohms, since my speakers are 8 ohms im. It seems there are some problems to drive the speaker. As the result I used handphone to test the sound.)
Handphone - Sony MDR QLP W.ear ( For 30.00, it is really a very good handphone)

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good and nice with sa-ax730 receiver but my 15`inc infinity tower make it skip at 45% power.

Price, sound, the ability to hold 111 CDs, digital Out...

Loud when changing disks

This CD player is pretty nice for only being 160. I listened to it using my Yamaha 795a and it sounds good, not great, but this is a 'value' CD player so thats expected.
It reads all my disks flawlessly and I haven't had any trouble with it.

5 stars for value because it doesn't get much cheaper than this.

5 stars for overall because it performs great for the money.

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