XPost: rec.music.classical.recordings
On 6/21/24 10:05 PM, Pluted Pup wrote:
The new Tascam CD-200BT CD player I just bought
is working! Along with the Cambridge Audio AXC35
CD Player I now have two working CD Players
both hooked up to the amplifier, one by the digital
input and one by the analog input.
It's awfully hard to find CD players, for such
demanding customers that require CD Players to
actually PLAY CDS! Course it's only a few
days for the Tascam and 7 months for the
Cambridge, but that's more than can be said
than about the new Audiolab 7000, NAD or Yamaha
which can't even play a cd without skipping and/or
sticking, though I must be grateful that the
defect was immediately apparent soI can return
the defective trash promptly.
It's a guess if or when the two working units
may migrate to my broken CD Player collection,
so far composed of Denon, Onkyo and Pioneer,
but I now have a working backup CD Player at all
times, rather than rely on desperate purchases of
what turn out to be short lived units from
Onkyo/Pioneer (same company) as I have in the past.
Note, that the two have some opposing design
defects: the Cambridge has forced power off
at about 10 minutes or so with no way to
avoid it; the Tascam stays on until it's turned
off with the button on the front of the unit and
cannot be turned on or off with the remote control.
The Tascam allows seeing the length of the track
in advance while the Cambridge does not (neither
does NAD or Yamaha), which could make it a pain to find out
how long the last track of a CD is, which
could be 40 minutes. Unfortunately both the Tascam
and Cambridge (along with NAD and Yamaha)
have near uselessly slow fast-forward or rewinding.
I removed the "rackmount" from the Tascam by
unscrewing the "wings" to make it a little more
presentable as an ordinary CD Player.
Update! The Tascam CD player has begun to fail
in it's CD playing at 13 months old! It is playing
through the CD but becomes silent in the middle of
the CD.
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