[Vintage-Audio] Turnabout?

[wolfbob]

I googled "CD Players" and got dozens of hits. They range in price from $60 
to over $400 but I am sure you can find something that will bounce your 
ball. Wal-Mart has two.

WBob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nickels" <ranickel at comcast.net>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 2:11 PM
Subject: [Vintage-Audio] Turnabout?


>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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