Price Paid:  $117.00 from ebay

Summary:
Got this mega changer to replace my personal cd player for my home audio system. When I saw that you program in to "skip/delete" a track you don't I thought it was the way to go. I don't have a problem of it loading cd's, but it dose not like playing them very well. Would bother me but my cheap sony boom box can play the cd's just fine along with my alpine cd player in the car. When it dose play the cd's I do not feel the sound quality is there when my cheap kmart hi-fi vhs player makes better sound on my home audio system.

If it would play cd's and being it has custom track memeroy I would have gave it a 4

Strengths:
-holds 200 cd's
-Ability to remember to skip tracks you don't like

Weaknesses:
dosen't play cd's very well
poor sound

Similar Products Used:
sony boom box
alpine cda-9805

Price Paid:  $120.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
This was an open box item which had the remote control and owner's manual. Purchased 6/14/01, in the shop by 6/20/01
rpair slip states one or more mechanical alignments made. Running scared I never put more than 5 cd's in my 200 cd changer. Summer 2003 back in the shop, will not play an entire cd. Diagnosis cracked laser. Price tag to fix cd player $200.00!

Strengths:
Ability to hold 200 cd's, an and text.

Weaknesses:
MY wife says it skipped like it was jumping rope.

Price Paid:  $200.00 from Okinawa Japan

Summary:
I bought this a Chrismas present to myself and have nothing but other than good things to say. In less than six months the selection arm mis-fed and damage 3 or 4 of my cds. I buffed them out and thought it was a fluke. I went through the remaining cds and made sure they were in properly. I move to california hook up my stereo and fell asleep listening on the shuffle mode. I woke up to 30 of my favorite cds damaged beyond repain and a good majority of the rest with suface scratches. I sent out the machine to fix with a letter and one of my cds to show the damage. I got the machine back a couple of weeks later with a repair note and that was it. I called up sony "customer service" and got a moron who denied every thing and then made counter acusations. I was on hold for about an hour...before I just left the phone off the hook on their bill. Wouldn't buy it again.

Strengths:
Sony has a great rep with usually great products.

Weaknesses:
Turned out this modle is a bad egg. Sounds like this particular machine has real problem. Sony's abilty to act professionaly.

Price Paid:  $290.00 from Verhulst,Rijen,Nethe

Summary:
Ok, i'm back again, i posted a review 8 months ago, in that review i described the jamming of discs, but now.......after a long period of repaires (at different locations, finally at Sony) it works perfectly.
They replaced the "pick and place" mechanism and as bonus a new laser ?!?
I connected it via fiber and now I'am happy!!! Look at the strengths and weaknesses:

Strengths:
CD Text (shows your 'own' house made CD-R's with CD Text , if you included this ofcourse), SHUFFLE ALL DISCS, it's nice to hear ceedees you were forgotten :)

Weaknesses:
Depth of the unit, and the mechanical problems i experienced (they are fixed now I hope). I'am convinced that this was a design error!! And now they have a "bug fix" for it

Similar Products Used:
None, my brother-in-law has the first model from Sony for years now, NEVER had problems.

Price Paid:  $190.00 from circuit city

Summary:
I don't know if it's just me but I was extremely satisfied with this product.

Strengths:
not a single mechanical problem after 1.5 years... nice sound... (for a $200 equipment)

Weaknesses:
big. (21" deep) Not so nice looking.

Similar Products Used:
Onkyo c601