Harman Kardon FL8350 5-CD Changer

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Summary: Great product
Review: I have had this cd player for five months now and love it. The sound is great and the price was ok. I have not had any problems with it and would recomend it to anyone. The only better buy might be H/K upper modle one with HDCD.

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Summary: Nice sound ..... extremely poor quality of construction.
Review: I have used HK sound equipment for years. The first FL8350 I purchased was inoperable right out of the box (would not index). The replacement lasted approx. 90 days and would no longer read the discs. The third unit was inoperable right out of the box (would not index). The fourth lasted approx. 14 days then started "skipping" (I returned it for a refund). My fifth unit was a Denon DCM-560.....excellent player !!

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Summary: Has real problems with random play
Review: I own this model and am unhappy with it. It plays CDs, the sound is great, the remote works, etc. But it has problem rejecting good CDs. I fill the tray with 5 disks and press start. Usually while attempting to read the initial track, it gives up on 1 or 2 CDs of the 5. After it fails, the disk indicator for that position goes out, and it will not let me try to play it. If I open the tray, move the disk a little and try again, it may or may not fix the problem. The disks are all in perfect condition. The more it tries to read the lead track, the more often it fails. If you push the all disk random play, it will never be able to play all the tracks on all of the disks. By the time it gets a third of the way through, there will be only one disk that if recognizes, and will just be playing tracks at random from the remaining one.

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Summary: the cd player broke down twice within a year
Review: My experience was like that of the user above. I bought this player because I liked the sound. It broke about a month later, refusing to recognize any cds. I returned it and the repaired unit began to fail about six months later, again refusing to recognize cds. I was able to swap it for a different brand, and so far so good. I've been happy with other HK products, but they clearly have a serious quality control problem with this line.

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Summary: Has real problems with random play
Review: The sound quality of this player is remarkable. I have owned a Rotel, a Denon, a Sony ES and a Nad. This unit by far surpasses all in price and quality, with one drawback - The unit is very noisy when exchanging and loading, along with the sound of the motorized drawr sounding like it is going to break at each opeaning/closing. I do not use cd players to program tracks, index or title, i just put the cd in and listen. i dont know if the index function of this unit works, i dont really care, but it hasent broken on me yet, along with the h/k amp i own, and if it does thats what warrentys are for. so i suggest if you have a budget but want great sound, go with this model. Also consider that this employs the same construction, casing, power supply and every other component except the burr-brown converter and hdcd processor found in the fl8550, which i should mention got 5 stars.

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Summary: Quality without compramise
Review: The sound quality of this player is remarkable. I have owned a Rotel, a Denon, a Sony ES and a Nad. This unit by far surpasses all in price and quality, with one drawback - The unit is very noisy when exchanging and loading, along with the sound of the motorized drawr sounding like it is going to break at each opeaning/closing. I do not use cd players to program tracks, index or title, i just put the cd in and listen. i dont know if the index function of this unit works, i dont really care, but it hasent broken on me yet, along with the h/k amp i own, and if it does thats what warrentys are for. so i suggest if you have a budget but want great sound, go with this model. Also consider that this employs the same construction, casing, power supply and every other component except the burr-brown converter and hdcd processor found in the fl8550, which i should mention got 5 stars.