Price Paid:  $130.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
Good CD player for the money, esspecially, cosidering the fact that it plays CD-RW's, "nice unexpected bonus" which is nice if you burn your own CD's like i do. That way you can audition the CD to see if you like it or if it has any errors. Never had it skip & track access is fast, plus if you have a CD with more than 20 tracks it will play & program them. To anyone who burns there own CD's(on a computer)& would like a cheap CD player that plays CD-RW's, i would recomend looking at a Sony. Sound quality is good for a low grade CD player, but not audiofile quality. Good bass response. The feature i like the most is the auto fade, instead of have to pause the player & then start it at full volume "say when i get a phone call", i just fade it out, & then after the call fade it back in. "also comes in handy when making tapes". Overall i have to give this player a 5, simply for the fact that it plays CD-RW's, & the fact that i've never had any trouble with it.

Strengths:
Plays CD-RW's, nice features

Weaknesses:
None i can think of

Similar Products Used:
Pioneer PDM601

Price Paid:  $200.00 from Crutchfield

Summary:
As said in an earlier review, no carousel player will sound great, but I've found this to be a reliable player. If you don't have a remote, many universal remotes will come with the codes to run it. I've had 2 RCA remotes that did.

I use it exclusively for when I need multiple discs. My Sony DVP-S3000 DVD player sounds better, and my Pioneer Laserdisc player (CLD-D702) kills both as far as sound quality goes.

Digital outputs would have gone a long way to heklping this player out. I, for one, will never get another CD player without it, as newer amps all have the inputs, and it makes a difference.

Let's face it though, the CD player is almost dead. Going forward, I see them being phased out in favor of cheap DVD players, which handle both formats.

Bottom Line: A good player at a great price - but make sure you wouldn't rather save for a DVD carousel.

Strengths:
Reliable budget carousel player.

Weaknesses:
No remote. No digital output.

Similar Products Used:
Sony CDP-790

Price Paid:  $180.00

Summary:
well, I have had this cd player for 5 odd year..
nice player
reliable, fast, quiet..
not any read issues with sound quality - no multi disc unit will sound too great, and this ones no exception - just good..
And to the people who claim DVD players make better music?
your dreaming or you have some exceptionally crappy DVD players... read some of the news groups....

Strengths:
Good budget cd player

Weaknesses:
not such great sound, but you need a goos system to notice

Summary:
this cd player is great. now i undrstand why people would say a dvd player sounds better but this cd player isnt even digital and it sounds great. i hav the 560 dvd player from sony and i do know the difference. this is a well recomended cd player.

Summary:
this is a great cd player and i love it! It does a lot of fun stuff and it realy does never skip even on some of the worse cds. But sad to say i am going to have to agree with marc when you compare an average cd player with a dvd player of course the dvd will sound better, common sense! If you want a cd player this is the one to get