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Summary: Not Quite Perfect
Review: Nice component, excellent sound, but the excessive motor noise when searching for a disk really detracts from the overall quality. Also missing is the ability to show time remaining on a track. Otherwise, nice affordable choice.
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Summary: I can't get enough of this player!
Review: OK, so in the overall scope of gadgets, this is not the most feature-rich, or technologically advanced, but for this price, WHO CARES! First of all, it's JVC, and as usual the sound quality is second to none. Secondly, it has a LOT of features for the price. It even allows you to label each disc with a text description of the CD, so if you have 200 discs (or less), or intend for some of your discs to permanently live in the player, it's extremely easy to navigate. You can also pick up to 32 discs of the 200 in the player as your favorites, and create your own "channels" to play on either continuous or random play. I've had the player for a few months now, and there are times we have it playing for 12-14 hours straight (weekends/spring cleaning) and it keeps going & going with no problems, few repititions of a disc, and NEVER repeats a song in a single sitting. Finally, the remote is extremely easy to use, works from about 20 feet away, and fits in most regular sized pockets. If you're in the market for a multi-disc changer, you won't find a better candidate.
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Summary: YOU CAN DO BETTER
Review: PAY ATTENTION TO THE "CONS" LISTED IN THE PRODUCT REVIEW. THEY ARE TWO OF ITS BIGGEST DRAWBACKS. ALSO: DISC TITLE INPUT IS SLOW AND TEDIOUS. (THE COMPARABLEY PRICED SONY MODELS HAVE A KEYBOARD INPUT!) YOU HAVE TO STOP THE DISC TO CHANGE PLAY MODES. FOR A A FEW EXTRA BUCKS YOU CAN GET A LOT MORE FOR YOUR MONEY.
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Summary: Not a good buy
Review: The sound quality is decent for a mega changer. It has jamming and skipping problems. Don't waste your money on this one!
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Summary: JVC XL-MC334BK CD Changer
Review: The XL-MC334BK CD Changer is a nice product at a really good price. It works good, the only drawbacks are the inability to play random within groups of CD's and the lack of an RS232 interface to load all of the CD title,author,track etc info. It plays CDR's just fine, the person who said it doesn't is absolutely WRONG.
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Summary: Good player, but does not do CDRs
Review: This is a good player overall; it's a bit noisy, and it doesn't like scratched CDs. This player simply DOES NOT PLAY cdrs; it makes a really nasty clunking noise and spits it out. I've written to JVC about this with no response; it doesn't make sense that they make a device for recording CDRs, then their own players won't handle them.
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Summary: Great Device But...
Review: This is a great device for the price it costs. It indeed plays CDRs with no problem. This device allows you to organize your CDs by Genre, Author and CD name. Its remote control is compact and complete. Finally, it has a beautiful design.Some annoying stuff: - noisy when changing a CD (but it is not an important stuff, and sometimes it makes you feel like in a Robocop movie due to the mecanism sound) - doesn't have an RS232 interface for data input. It is painful to input each CD information using arrows and an enter button... - doesn't have memory for the CDs based on their serial number. If you change a CD place, the system won't recognize it so you will need to re-input all the information.
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Summary: Fun while it lasted....
Review: This player is a great way to organize your CD collection, and its wonderful to have 200 CD's at your fingertips! However, based on my experiences with this player, I wouldn't recommend this player, and here's why:
1.) Too many moving parts inside the player. Not only does this make changing CD's very noisy, it increases the likelihood of failure. After owning this model for 3 years with hardly any problems, one day it quit playing CD's. After opening the cabinet, I discovered the problem was a mechanical failure was causing the CD's to not completely fall into place to play. So now no CD's will play unless you manually force them into place.
2.) The random function is very poor. Even if you have the player completely filled with CD's, the random function will always choose the same 15 or so CD's. The player also doesn't remember which tracks have already played, so it will often choose the exact same song within a few minutes of each other! With literally thousands of songs to choose from, this is simply unacceptable.
3.) When you're filling this player with CD's for the first time, be prepared to invest A LOT of time if you want artist/album details entered. There is no keyboard input on this player. All info must be entered by choosing a letter, pressing enter, moving the wheel to the next letter, pressing enter, and so on. I spent several hours entering this info when I first bought the player. Very tedious. If you own a lot of other JVC equipment, this player may be worth it since its very compatible via the CompuLink system. Everyone else, like me, should move on to something else.
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Summary: Too many problems
Review: When this unit jammed the first time, I took it in under warranty. Now it is jammed again and I am ready to give it to my local high school eletronics class and get a better one.
It also skipped a lot for no reason. Another dissappointment: it cant play a random selection of a particular genre or user group. I am very dissappointed in JVC.
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Summary: YOU CAN DO BETTER
Review: You might consider buying this product if you have a lot of patience and are willing to sacrifice some time and effort, which you might not have to do if you purchased a competing machine, Yes, the price is right. Yes, the sound quality is excellent-crisp sharp highs, great tone definition. Considering the various features available, most of what you read in the other reviews is right on the money, as far as my experience is concerned. (I don't understand the fellow that claimed his machine "creased"-don't know what that means, but I've warned my friends not to touch my machine since it might "crease" at any minute). Now the downside. I loaded my discs, and when I played them back, more often than not tracks were interrupted. This is most disconcerting. I tried everything I could think of-cleaned and re-cleaned every disc; even made some CD-R copies (Yes, it does play CD-R's) under the assumption that a "pristine" disc was what was required. No luck at all with any of those measures. The tracks continued to be interrupted at exactly the same time/place as before the correction-even on the CD-R. Now here is my workaround, and so far it appears to solve the interruption problem. I have another JVC product, a DVD player which I have used to play my CD's in the past. I discovered that when I played a disc containing an interruption on the DVD player-and then reinserted the disc back into the JVC 200 player, the interruption was gone and the machine played normally. If I had known beforehand that this problem was going to occur, I would not have purchased this product. But as long as my workaround holds, I'll stay with it
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