Price Paid:  $250.00 from Sears

Summary:
I don't understand all the negative reviews on this product. Everything I've read so far seems like people should've recognized that they got a damaged product and should've taken them back instead of trying to make them work. It happens. I've had my player for over 5 years now, and it works flawlessly. I purchased an entire Sony Home Theater set up to go with this, and it's been heaven. I worship my Sony entertainment system. This CD Changer is also awesome! It's absolutely not too big. It's a large piece, but it's a small as you could possibly make one and hold 300 CD's. It's a very lightweight product for it's size. I had a nice size CD collection and got tired of seeing scratches pop up on my discs when I played them, no matter how much I babied them, but this allows to keep them enclosed from dust & scratches and plays easily. The wait between discs is not that bad. You have to consider that this thing is delicately putting your discs away and rotating to the next. It takes a little while to spin to the next disc. I've never had one ounce of trouble with my player at all. I'll be depressed the day I need to get a new changer, but I'm pretty sure it'll be a while. Buy one and enoy!

Strengths:
Life of CD's is expanded tremendously!
Very easy to use.
Space and time saver.
Super easy installation.
It's made by Sony!

Weaknesses:
NONE. Well, except for the fact that I wish it could've been a DVD player as well.

Price Paid:  $250.00

Summary:
This machine does a lot of things well, but it also has a few really bad habits. My unit, at least two or three times a month, refuses to load the selected disk. It will do so only after I unplug the unit and then plug it back in again. (I suspect this is a static electricity problem.) Worse, my unit has fumbled the disks inside the unit, resulting in terrible grinding noises, damage to disks, and the need to disassemble the unit to put things back in order. This has happened twice now. I am thinking of going back to a single CD player.

Price Paid:  $179.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
My cd collection has close to 500 cd's. I hardly ever listened to them because I had to place my cd racks away from my stereo, this made it a PIA to play a cd. Buying 2 of these changers allowed me to keep my cd's conveniently located thereby increasing their usage.

Strengths:
Capacity
Ease of use
Ability to use computer keyboard for entering cd names.

Weaknesses:
Only 13 character cd naming ability.
Length of time from cd selection to start of play.

Similar Products Used:
1991 Sony 5-disc changer (still works like new)

Price Paid:  $180.00 from eBay (new)

Summary:
I enjoyed the many features of my Technics mega-changer except that it would sometimes mis-track and skip on playback. This was real PIA when recording from it. I read many reviews on the Sony CX335 and have been overall very pleased with it. It has not skipped or misread any of my CD's, including those that I have made. I like the ease of inputting text via the PS-2 keyboard and the memo-search feature. I was surprised to find that there is no way to access the reamining time per track or disk - a feature available on even the cheapest players these days! Also, you can't Fast search Forward or Reverse, or Skip tracks from the deck, only by the remote (hope it never breaks)!`

Strengths:
Excellent sound, flawless performance. Great price. Easy to use. Keyboard text input.

Weaknesses:
- Very BIG!
- Long time between disks
- No countdown timer
- Remote required for some features
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Similar Products Used:
Technics Mega-Changer?

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
I bought my player april 2001. I installed the thing and started loading my CD's. After a little with I noticed that sometimes when I turned on the player it didn't recognize any CD anymore. If it did recognize the first CD everything worked fine furtheron but the next time it could go wrong again and not recognize any CD. So I returned the CD to the service center and got it back after 4 weeks ( 2 weeks repair time were promissed, but OK ... ). I got back home and immediately had the same problem. I returned to the service center and 4 weeks later I tested my CD at the service center and had still the same problem. CD returned back to Sony 4 weeks later ... ( you can guess ) no change.

After all this boring hussel I finaly got a new machine and now it seems to work fine ( although I sometime suspect ... )

This is a long story to tell that the product can be OK but the service of Sony sucks like hell !!!

Strengths:
300 CD's

Weaknesses:
Very poor (none actually) customer service
Slow and noisy CD change ( especialy ennoying in random play )

Similar Products Used:
none