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Subject: Re: Any Experience with Technics SLP-7 C - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 6-May-84 13:15:00 EDT
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Nf-From: uokvax!jab    May  6 12:15:00 1984

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uokvax!jab    May  6 12:15:00 1984

I have a Technics SLP-7 that I purchased about a month and a half ago.

I can't really compare it to the other models, since I resolved myself
to the fact that USUALLY CD PLAYERS ONLY DIFFER IN FEATURES FROM OTHER
PLAYERS. This isn't a provable fact, but for most of the non-professional
players, I believe it's true.

I paid $500 for mine, and got five "free" albums, so it really would have
cost me $400 if I had decided to get those albums anyhow. I like my player
a LOT, and find that combined with my 50-watt/channel Harmon Kardin amp and
my Infinity RSb speakers, I got an amazing clarity that I never expected.

There are some CD's that should show off a player, and I DON'T believe that
an "1812" is a reasonable test. Buy/borrow/steal the following albums and
try them out on the player you're looking at:
	Windham Hills:	"December," by George Winston - piano solos
		(does it feel like there's a soloist in the next room? If
		not, check your speakers before continuing.)
	Telarc: "Vaughan Williams/Barber/Grainger/Faure'" - St. Louis
		Symphony (in particular, the "Adagio for Strings")
	Telarc: Tchaikovsky, Symphony #4 - Cleveland Orchestra (in particular,
		the finale)
	Telarc: "Holst/Handel/Bach" - Cleveland Symphonic Winds
		(the second movement of the "First Suite in E-flat" is
		a nice test of clarity. Listen for the E-flat clarinets
		maintaining the eighth note rhythms throughout.)
	DG: Saint-Saens "Symphony No. 3 (Organ)" - Berlin Philharmonic,
		Von Karajan (listen in the finale for the piano when the
		strings are introducing the theme.) (I understand that the
		Telarc of this symphony is quite good, also.)

Returning to the matter at hand, the SLP-7 has "skip selection" (forwards
and backwards), "fast forward" (and back), "repeat selection/album". Not
a whole lot of frills, but I usually listen to an album from a given point
to the end of the album, so I don't care.

	Jeff Bowles
	Lisle IL