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Thread ID: 48986	2004-09-07 02:11:00	OT - want to buy a new home stereo	falvrez (390)	Press F1

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269995	2004-09-07 02:11:00	yes way OT but nowhere else to turn. Makes me seem like a sad case but have had no luck with local small town shops. I have a Panasonic home stereo system which takes 60 cds. It is bloody brilliant. Stick em in hit random and walk away and never have to take cds in or out again. This unit only cost $400 5 years but it is dead. Now I'm trying to find another home stereo that takes an equal or even close number of CDs. Can't find one anywhere - most take 3 or 5 at the most. Has anyone spotted a stereo that takes this many in recent time? Getting sick of using the DVD player and TV to play CDs!	falvrez (390)
269996	2004-09-07 02:13:00	Why not plug the dvd player into the new stereo,and burn mp3's to dvd. You could probbly fit your entire cd collection on 1 DVD.	metla (154)
269997	2004-09-07 02:41:00	Sony (http://www.sony.co.nz) have a 300 disc CD changer. Search for CDPCX355. Cheers Miami	Miami Steve (2128)
269998	2004-09-07 06:48:00	We have a Sony 300 CD changer and have about 140 CD's in it. It's not old but it's largish and electromechanical like a jukebox, as opposed to newer types that record your CD's onto a hard drive. It plugs into the AUX port of the stereo. Overall I think it's great - we have a wide range of music that we like and often set it on 'random' and it will pick a track from any of the CD's. Eg we have a CD of Sinatra 1940's stuff, and I wouldn't want to listen to the whole thing at once, but when you get it interspersed between Handel and The Eagles, it's pretty cool. You can also set up 'groups' of music and it will randomise within a group. We bought it about three years ago but if I was going again, I'd look for a HDD type (don't know of any brands or models). This means no lag while the next CD is found - and you still have all the CD's to play in the car or elsewhere.	basil (2970)
269999	2004-09-07 07:07:00	I'd also suggest going the hard drive way. 90% of my CDs have been encoded as MP3's and are stored on my PC. What it means as using Winamp or whatever program you choose, I can search and play any song within seconds, no lag changing between songs, I can play songs from a particular artist or album or genre. If you're into networking you can share it out to other pc's within your home etc. Mines fed into a small midi system and certainly wakes up the house. I have found I listen to a wider range of music than fishing in the rack for a CD. Yep I've got a 25 Disc player in the lounge, but on the PC I have the contents of about 200 CD's to listen to instantly. In most cases using a decent encoder you won't even notice a difference in quality. If your really serious about quality then you could use a shim encoder, this will be half the wav file in size but retain a lot more than a 320Kbit mp3.	Exwesty (5639)
270000	2004-09-07 07:25:00	good suggestions but don't wanna have yet another PC in teh lounge for playing CDs...have got a good collection and prefer to just leave them in a home stereo (as we have been doing) and leave them be. And the one we have now (that's broken) is an all in one unit (not a seperate component) which is fine. Not after high fidelity, just convience... so yeah still after a micro or mini system that stores heaps of CDs. Rang up Panasonic today and their biggest unit holds only 8 - give me 60 anyday!	falvrez (390)
270001	2004-09-07 09:44:00	I typed "60 Disk CD Player" into Google & got hits,, if thats any help???? PJ	Poppa John (284)
270002	2004-09-07 10:14:00	You'd expect that with the capability to hold that many CDs, they'd also put in the ability to have the next song chosen and ready to play as soon as the current one finishes. All it'd require is dual lasers, motors, and whatnot. Sony do have the 300 CD unit (I think they stopped producing the 100 CD version), but it's just a component that you plug into, say, an amplifier. Personal choice would be to go for a component stereo system, rather than something that tries (even if it is successful at trying) to do everything itself.	agent (30)
270003	2004-09-07 20:52:00	Thanks PJ I did try 60 disc cd in google but if you search NZ only you don't get any hits relevant to what I'm after... I did find the Sony MHC-GSX100W globally but can't seem to find this one sold here. Bummer.	falvrez (390)
270004	2004-09-07 22:53:00	the 300 cd changer mentioned earlier is listed by what apears to be a nz site. www.dvdshop.co.nz But the blurb futher down?....All Prices shown are in US Dollars. DVD titles are Region 1 encoded. dvdshop does not stock any items - all items are shipped from Amazon.com in the USA. Some Amazon.com shipping restrictions apply for visitors outside the USA. For any product or shipping queries, please contact Amazon.com. Thank you. what a freakin joke,its amazon in a new skin.	metla (154)
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