[Vintage-Audio] Turnabout?

[manualman at juno.com]

Teac still offers the CD-P1260 CD player for about $100. Amazon has them
in stock. I just bought the wife a tabletop/shelf Sony AM/FM/CD player
for about $80. has output jack to drive bigger system if desired.

Pete, wa2cwa


On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:11:30 -0600 Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net>
writes:
> I find myself looking, so to speak, at a problem from a perspective 
> I'm 
> not accustomed to, but one I know Duane will get a kick out of.    
> Like 
> many of you I suppose, I figured the CD was probably the last media 
> ever 
> to be produced by mankind, so I ended up buying a lot of 'em, 
> including 
> many replacements for my old vinyl LPs.   Now I realize I could rip 
> 'em 
> all and store 'em on a hard drive but there's still something about 
> 
> putting a disc of some kind into a player and selecting the track 
> that I 
> want to hear.  So I bought a couple of TEAC brand single-play CD 
> players 
> a number of years ago that have served until now as an audio source 
> for 
> my various vintage setups.
> 
> The other night one died.  It's unrepairable by me at least, as it's 
> 
> half surface-mount and it's probably a driver or something that's 
> causing the 6 volt regulator to run hot.   So I thought maybe it's 
> time 
> to buy a new CD player.   Wrong!   With few exceptions, 
> consumer-grade 
> CD players have become as obsolete as 8 tracks!
> 
> So what's a guy to do when he likes to select tracks rather than 
> just 
> play the entire disk?   I know DVD players will play audio CDs, but 
> 
> when's the last time you've seen one of them with a display on the 
> machine rather than just on-screen?  Of course the ironic part is  - 
> 
> this is the world Duane knows well, and here I am fussing because I 
> 
> can't buy a player that tells me which track I've selected!     The 
> 
> simplest and cheapest answer is just to use a low-end DVD player and 
> 
> count button-presses I suppose - or use the abysmally-designed 
> remote 
> control.    I'd really rather have a nice component type CD player 
> than 
> a portable - and don't want to have to have a TV nearby just for the 
> 
> on-screen display - but evidently I'm in the minority.
> 
> Anyone else run into this dilemma?
> 
> 73 Bob W9RAN
> 
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