the title says it all, I've been thinking about purchasing one of these units before they totally disappear. So anybody out there who owns one I would love some input on what to look for as far as necessary features and what to look out for....thanx in advance

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This is the 21st century......why don't you just get an iPod and a docking station?

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

why? I had one for a whole week in like 1999 and ditched it. it worked ok but trying to remember what cd was in each slot was a pain. and I always ended up digging out the cd case anyways to read the track list. Mp3 players are a much more effective jukebox anyways but what do I know I still prefer vinyl

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Well my stereo is an old Tube Macintosh which doesn't have docking station capability. I agree that it would be an easy solution except that I'd probably never live long enough to rip all of the CD's I own.

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancin'

Having a long family background in home audio and hifi business I have to say than on the whole they are too unreliable for my liking. To much mechanical business going on that can play up and cause you trouble.

Honestly I don't see the hassle in popping in a new CD, the only place I see the use was when they had the multi units in cars.

Thanks Joe, my reasoning was that I could fill it up and use it on random play except everything on there would be music I liked. I've been using a 5 disc unit for a bunch of years now and know it's time for a new unit ...hence the curiosity about the 100 disc units

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancin'

I use an old dynaco tube amp and have had no trouble patching mp3 players into it.
I just run a switch box between it and the various other devices.
that is allot cheaper and smaller than one of those giant 100 disk monstrosity's

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Damn, you guys make it so hard to be a Luddite...always so sensible with with your rational suggestions (just kidding, thanks for the input guys)

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancin'

I mean theres a good chance you could have one which develops no problems, it was just out of everything we had returned to us for problems, it was always the things with more moving parts which went first, as is the way with electricals!

If you have a laptop one way of getting your music on is to run a 3.5mm to 2 phono into your system, then when you want to play a cd, put it in the laptop, play it through the speakers but be importing it at the same time. That way you won't have wasted time importing music you don't actually listen to.

but then you have to manually tag and catalog everything I started trying that with some vinyl I couldn't find on cd and gave up fairly quickly... but with cd's you just pop one in and let it do its thing. I just do it randomly all day, eventually you finish

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If your mac has aux input you can buy a ipod dock from apple and play your ipod through this or just get a cable that will plug into the headphone jack and a left/right end to plug straight into the aux input. The apple dock comes with a remote. This is what I did and it works great. You could just plug your laptop in the same way.

I'm talking about CD. The phono lead is only to hear it through the amp while you're copying it to you laptop, then you can just throw it onto an MP3 player or whatever.

ahh i was confused, i thought you meant play the stereo into the laptop to record my bad

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Okay... I'll admit it, I own one. A friend and I collected CDs big times, starting back in the 80s (3,500 in my collection right now) and he bought this monstrosity and started loading it up. It has a digital readout on it that let's you enter the name of the CD and a little other info, but he only got about 38 CDs in and he gave up - it was taking forever to fill.

In the end, I bought all of his CDs after he burned them to his computer (and later loaded them onto an iPod) and he gave me the 100-CD unit. just to be rid of it, I think. I was always going to fill it up, actually started one day, but for the last 6-7 years it has just been sitting there with a couple dozen CDs in it.

I've offered it to some other people, but they all turned me down... I've got thousands (45,700 at last count) of songs on an iPod and my Nook. Technology moves on...

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