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Subject: Re: revox, NEC, and yamaha CD players
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Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 19:34:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 24 19:34:46 1984
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A couple of notes on the Yamaha and NEC CD players:  I mentioned in a
previous article that a friend had come across a marginal CD that some
players wouldn't handle.  I tried that CD on the Yamaha CD-X1 and it had no
trouble tracking it.  However, the NEC player wouldn't even consider
playing it--it never got past the point of trying to read the track/index
data (that is, the data that tells it track locations and times).  You
could hear the poor little servo hunting around.  This was one of the
reasons I didn't buy the NEC player; the other was that it seemed
overpriced ($1300 when I was looking, not counting any haggling I might
have done).

While looking at the Yamaha, I found one misfeature--not serious, but
annoying and stupid:  If you program it to play a particular set of tracks,
it plays them in physical order rather than the order you entered them.
For example, if you ask it to play tracks 3, 8, 5, and 1 it will play them
in the order 1, 3, 5, 8.  I didn't know memory was so expensive!
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.