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Title:	Welcome to the CD Notes Conference
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Created:	Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Mar 03 1989
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1517
Total number of notes:	13349

1513.0. "Anybody know if Sony is changing their line?" by MARVIN::BECK (Paul Beck) Wed Feb 08 1989 11:19

    My brother, at University of Wisconsin LaCross campus, sent me the
    following plea for information. Not knowing myself, I figured somebody
    in this crowd might have some information and/or suggestions. I haven't
    done any "local" checking on his behalf since receiving this, as I'm in
    England at the moment.
    
    Thanks -
    
    	Paul Beck, normally STAR::BECK
    
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Paul--
  It's me again.  I had decided on a CD player.  Based on your comments,
my study, and gut reaction, I decided to go Sony.  The particular model I
wanted was the CDP-C70.  It has the major features I wanted (plus a bunch I
probably don't need), including the 5-disk carousel; it was missing indexing
and digital out.  I had whittled the price all the way down to $400! (Whew!)
 
  I placed the order, and then found out (a week later) that the model is no
longer available.  I had heard earlier that Sony was sending all of their CD
players to Europe and that we could not expect anything until April-May.  The
store I was dealing with had a different supplier and had hoped to have better
access to the product.  The bottom line is that no one here seems to know what
the hell is going on with Sony.  It looks like they are probably changing
lines, but no one knows when, why, or what the changes will be.
 
  Do you have access to anyone in your area who might know what is going on?
Is the current line being phased out in favor of a new line?  What is the
availability?  Would there be anyone in your area who might still have the
CDP-C70 (or the CDP-950 or CDP-750 - single player versions)?  I guess I just
hoped that someone in a more metropolitan area would have more information.
 
  If Sony doesn't look viable, I guess I will go after the Magnavox CDB-473
(one of the better rated models in the recent Consumer Reports).  It's a
single play unit, has indexing and digital out, doesn't have shuffle play.  I
just had this gut reaction that Sony would be a little better, and I already
have Sony equipment (not a real reason, but when you're scratching for them).
Unfortunately, the Magnavox is also unavailable at the moment.  Sigh.
 
[ ... "I want my CD" moaning removed ... ]
     
Cheers - jb

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1513.1	CDP-70 for me too.	KANE::CASTIGLIONE	Daytona Bound	`Wed Feb 08 1989 11:44`	4
	I checked Lechmere up here, since that's the same model I'm going with and they had them for $399. I'm waiting for it to go on sale. Stig
1513.2		LESLIE::LESLIE	Phase what?	`Wed Feb 08 1989 14:17`	7
	Paul, you don't know yourself? This is serious! :-) Andy
1513.3	Perhaps you should consider the Sony C7-ESD	XANADU::COFFLER	Ya' gotta help me, I'm a toon!	`Thu Feb 09 1989 08:10`	22
	>I decided to go Sony. The particular model I wanted was the CDP-C70. It has >the major features I wanted (plus a bunch I probably don't need), including the >5-disk carousel; it was missing indexing and digital out. I had whittled the >price all the way down to $400! (Whew!) I'm not sure that $400 is a very good deal for the Sony CDP-C70. I recently picked up the Sony C7-ESD. It doesn't have indexing, but it does have digital outputs. Since I'm not familiar with the exact features of the C70, I'm not sure what else the C7-ESD has above the C70. I believe that the C7-ESD is the ESD version of the C70. The C7-ESD also has the 5-disk carousel (I prefer that much more than cartridges), remote control with volume, disk memos/titles, etc. I ended up paying $429 for the unit (I live in New Hampshire, so no sales tax was charged). My understanding is that ESD models are about $60-$80 higher than the non-ESD counterparts. Based on that, $400 for the C70 isn't a great price. I needed to shop around for the C7-ESD to (1) Find someone with a unit in stock, and (2) Find someone willing to charge what I wanted to pay. Units aren't exactly common-place, but they are available if you look around (I ended up with two or three places that could get me a unit in under a week).
1513.4	My son's opinion	KANE::CASTIGLIONE	Daytona Bound	`Thu Feb 09 1989 09:01`	12
	$400 to me isn't a great price either, that's the non-sale price. I've seen it as low as $349. That seems to be more in line. Talking about the Pioneer 6 cartridge unit, I bumped into my son last night at Strawberries and he told me that it was a real pain with the Pioneer cartridge unit. Meaning you have to pull it out, load it up individually and the the Sony CDP 70 unit, now looks more appealing. Just popping out the drawer and loading them in is a piece of cake. So looks like he's going for a Sony unit now. Stig
1513.5	In my eyes, you're the masochist!	DELNI::GILE	The Time and Space Oddity	`Thu Feb 09 1989 09:17`	12
	re .4 I guess one man's pain, is another man's pleasure! ;) I have 4 cartridges, which I usually keep loaded with dif- ferent types of music. One with some classical discs, another with Jazz, another with rock, etc. Whatever mood I'm in, I can eject one cartridge and put in another, and I stack the empty CD cases in the order loaded, so I know at a glance if I want disc 2, or 5, etc. I also get the added benny, that my random play works properly, and I use it as one of my main priority features. Wayne
1513.6	Invest a little bit more and...	VAXWRK::SWARD	Foreigner? Me? No, I'm Swedish!	`Thu Feb 09 1989 09:47`	13
	When I bought my first Pioneer ~3 year ago I also bought 20 cartridges as well, mainly since I was at that time living in France and I figured that for $10 a cartridge here, that was the cheapest I could get them. I know have about 50% of my CD's permanently stoed in the cardridges and are using the single drawer for the rest. Easy storage, similar CD:s together and also great for the classical music that consist of more than one CD. Peter