I didn't have a lot of cash. And I didn't want to spend so much money on the equipment that I couldn't afford to buy any disks. On the other hand, I wanted the sound quality to be reasonably good. So what to do?
I called up my friend who is a hi-fi nut. (You're officially a hi-fi nut a nut when your preamp costs more than your car, and you only have seven disks to listen to.) My nutty friend made some shrewd suggestions, and following fairly closely to his recommendations I ended up with the following:
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Sony produced a range of 200-disk jukebox CD players. Yep, 200!
The 205 is an inexpensive model that simultaneously suited my needs
and my pocket. And despite the low cost it sounds just great!
If you have not tried one, let me tell you that the ability to sit on the sofa and select disks from your collection without moving a muscle (or at least no muscles other than the ones in your remoco finger) is very cool! The one thing wrong with this unit is that it holds only 200 compact disks! There is a solution, of course. Sony now markets 400-disk jukebox CD players, and they are stackable. So you can have two of them operating from the same remote controller. But since my collection (at time of writing) was heading rapidly for 700 albums, a pair of 400's would be a stop-gap solution at best. |