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- From: smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Best type of CD changer?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.155100.7641@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 15:51:00 GMT
- References: <92251.192056LLH111@psuvm.psu.edu> <3857@cvbnetPrime.COM> <92255.003839LLH111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
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- In article <92255.003839LLH111@psuvm.psu.edu> LLH111@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >All of the replies I've gotten regarding cd-changer type have been
- >pro-carousel. One of the prinmary reasons I thought that a mag.
- >player is good is that the magazines protect the disks. Any support/
- >further discredit to this idea?
-
- If you buy enough mags to store all your disks in, then it's probably
- true. (Though then you have the problem of arranging your disks in
- sets of 6(~) that you're always going to want to have loaded together,
- and the further problem of how to organize the liner notes. Not to
- mention the extra cost. In compensation, they will store in a bit less
- space that way than in their own boxes.) If you only have a few mags,
- or want a different assortment each time, then you are going to have to
- continually be loading and unloading mags, and that is a BIT more
- fiddly than dropping the disks into a carousel, so may increase the
- risk of scratching or fingerprinting them.
-
- My own feeling is that if you really want a changer (not my favorite
- idea, but it's your money) then the carousel is the way to go, both for
- those reasons, and because it's easier to deal with disks which you've
- borrowed or just bought and so haven't decided where to put them yet.
-
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