JVC XL-MC334BK 200-CD Changer

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Summary: Frequent Tracking Interruptions
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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Summary: Very sensitive unit.
Review: Your CDs better be perfect to play correctly. I have 200 CDs installed. 5 percent of the CDs skip. I am talking about new CDs here with no scratches. Other complaints are loud loading mechanism. If I had to do it over again I would have bought something else.