nickscarano's Full Review: Yamaha CDC-575 5-Disc CD Changer
I am not or ever will be a fan of the ipod, i cannot stomach the sound of MP3 songs: the tell tale garbage can lid cymbal sound, cat scratch vocal yelping and lack of any real bass makes me cringe, my nervous system attacked with bolts of electricity, and my stomach cramps up like a woman first realizing the onset of a monthly cycle. I want to use my own EQ to lower freq's i don't want to hear rather than paying some monopolizing corporate conglomerate thief in the night 99 cents to have some computer program decide what sounds i should not listen to, and do not need to hear and wouldn't notice anyways, all for the sake of file size. I would much rather burn a pure wav file or flac or shn onto a cdr, But how do i listen to this at home in a comfortable way??? I drop it into a wonderful cd player that will do what i need it to do. I got a good deal on a Yamaha CDX-575 5 disc cd player, you can too, and i have not turned back. I have it set up in my kitchen on the top of the microwave cart, with a real old Pioneer receiver driving the way and a pair of old old ALtec Lansing tower speakers blazing the trail. These were made when they were still building boxes to shake your local moviehouse and before they became computer speaker maniacs. This setup is a 'little more' pleasing (and a little larger) than dropping a cell phone sized device into the 'ipod home'.
This cd player reproduces the real and true CD sound the way it was meant to be played, not slaughtered and sliced up for empty 3's. Under the hood are FOUR proprietary single bit digital-to-analog converters, the same ones used in their higher up models.
I put in my 'test' cd, with songs i am so familiar with they have become part of my genetic makeup, listening to the pure nuances of it,the sliding of a hand over the guitar strings while changing chords, the resonating pulse of a snare drum, the celelstial ringing of a crash cymbal
after it's initial job is done, and the inhaling of breath after belting out a lyric, the stuff sometimes lost when going from analog to digital. They are all are there in a special way true audiophiles truly appreciate, the ones that that have a $10,000 turntable capping off their rig like a marischino cherry tops off a favorite sundae. Some of us look for this stuff
I like the PlayXchange feature, that lets me change the four other discs while the fifth is playing. Nice when i am trying to listen uninterrupted to a complete Dead concert spanned across three cd's.
Some other things this toy has under the hood is a 40 track programmable memory, something i never ever used on any cd player. A three-way music search, and synchronized startup that lets you record to a Yamaha specific cassette deck with one touch of the remote. A feature usually not on such an entry level changer is an index scan. Classical recordings mark the separate movements with an index number. One feature i always love, and is also on the remote, is a random mode, which picks off songs at random, usually songs i would never pick myself.
If you find the 575 or the replacement 585, do not look back, jump on it.
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AUDIO SECTION Harmonic Distortion + Noise, 1kHz = 0.004% , Frequency Response = 20 to 20,000 Hz, +/-0.5 dB, Signal-to-Noise Ratio = 102 dB, Dynamic Range = 95 dB
Dimensions Width = 17-1/8 in., Height = 4-1/2 in., Depth = 16 in.
Weight 12.8 lbs.
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