Had I paid full price, I probably would be writing the exact same review, but for under $100 this is a steal. The CD Changer I got looked absolutely perfect, not a single blemish on it, and there was even a plastic sheet over the display to protect it from scratching.Īll in all I feel I got an amazing steal. Apparently the actual inner workings of the CD player were always perfect, there was just some cosmetic issue that required refurbishing.
The box said "refurbished Unit, Cosmetic Defects," and that made me feel great. I was a little skeptical about the refurbished unit, until it arrived. The vendor was Best Price Audio Video () a Cleveland dealer who was very good on customer service, and shipped within 48 hours of reveicing my payment. I jumped on it, and paid $75.00 for the CD player. Playing around on E-bay, I found a factory refurbished unit from an Onkyo authorized dealer with full factory warranty. Prices between the 2 units are roughly identical, about $170 for the Onkyo, and about $200 for the Yamaha. This can be accessed by remote as well as on the unit. So, if Disc 2 Track 3 is playing, you can tell it to play Disc 6 track 9 next, and enver have to have the music interrupted, or rush over when the song currently playing is done. The advantage of the Onkyo is that it has 6 disc capacity instead of 5, and has a very clever 'Next Selection' function which lets you tell the chanegr what to do next. Both have excellent reputations, and the Yamaha has an advantage of a nice telephone-style number pad to directly input the track number, whereas the Onkyo requires scrolling using forward/backward keys, although numbers can be directly entered in from the remote. I narrowed my choice of CD player down to this one and the Yamaha CDC-685. This is actually a review for the 2001 model, the DX-C380. Next step is to get a Onkyo Receiver and try out the optical connection.
The clarity of the Monsoons adds tremendously to the warmth of the Bose speakers and I am awash in discrete frequencies. And occasionally I hook in my Monsoon Flat panel computer speakers too. I have 2 Vintage Bose 301's (wood not plastic) for speakers. Frankly the dern system has never sounded so good. The high filter cuts that nasty signal to noise ratio way down. The hi-filter on the Pioneer is the best filter I've ever heard and I hate filters especially that gawd-awful Dolby stuff. I have it running through a 10 band BSR equalizer and an old Channel Master tube amp and a Vintage Pioneer Receiver from the 70's. I've been listening to a marvelous plethora of music every day ever since. It was Clearance time and I picked up this model for $150. The very next day I was in the Shopryland Mall and wandered into the Bose store. It simply would not read cd's of any variety. I took back the Technics SL-PD8 to HH Gregg in Nashville where I bought it.
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I bought this cd changer as a demo model in 2000 and was planning on replacing it with something better (more pricey)(but i have yet to find one that exceeds this one's overall abilities) I compared it to an NAD 523 changer and can honestly say that this one sounded better (NAD sounded shallow, not quite as full of sound) also, Onkyo has a much better software system, things work quickly and intuitively (for example, you can put a cd into any one of the disc trays, and push that number disc and walk away.the disc player closes and plays the music in about 6 seconds).I also compared it to a Harman Kardon 8380 (which has 20 bit Burr Brown convertors.and plays HDCDs).Here, the Onkyo lost in sound quality.the Harman Kardon has slightly more detail and refined bass, but it also had problems finding discs (would fail at going from say, disc 1 to disc 4, about 1 out of 8 times.pretty annoying).also with the HK, you had to wait every time you opened and closed the tray for it to cycle around all 5 discs before it would play the disc you wanted and it required you to push the "close tray " button, "disc number" button and the "play" button.(took about 12 seconds) if you want audiophile sound (and who doesn't?) i don't think you will find it in a cheap cd changer, i am now on the hunt for a single cd player for that purpose.for multidisc playback.this cd player is great, easy to use and sounds alright on my NAD t571 A/V amp and Paradigm monitor 7 v2 speakers
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