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Review 3 of 9
Price Paid:
$90.00
from best buy Summary:
The only thing I really mind about this player is that during while a CD is playing, lights flash on the front in FOUR different places. You have the play button flashing, the disc button flashing, the track number on the LCD flashing, and the disc number on the LCD flashing. It's unnecessary and annoying, especially since there's no way of disabling it (other than taking the thing apart maybe). But other than that, it's a great player. Whatever you do, unless you're really hardcore and you have some old expensive receiver without digital inputs that you don't wanna give up, don't buy any cd player above the sub-$100US range, because the optical outputs make them all sound exactly as they should. When I first started shopping for a cd player, I was uncertain about this because it just didn't make sense to me that stores could get away with selling $300 units that output exactly the same sound as the entry level models, even though it seemed obvious that this would be true with digtal signals. I asked a salesperson, got some garbage about the laser being better on the harmon kardon, blah blah blah. Then I did my homework and realized I should have trusted my ability to detect the obvious :P. Also, the analog output is pretty good too. I only give it a four star for overall because of the thing with the lights... it just seems like someone at aiwa should have realized some people might find it annoying, and at least added a way to disable it. Strengths:
It feels more well designed than the other players with optical out in it's price range. Weaknesses:
Excessive flashing lights in front. Unit and remote are both really huge, but who cares? Similar Products Used:
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