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    Home Theater CD Changers? Halp Please!

    Hey gang. So my lady's birthday is coming up and I want to do something special.

    We spend a lot of time listening to her 300+ cd collection. The one thing we both dread is how we can seamlessly change cd's without having to get up. I want to get her a cd changer with a 300+ cd capacity. My issue is, after looking at them I've notice a lot have issues after much use. That's something I'm not looking forward to. Anybody have experience with these? Any recommendations?

    It's either that or build a media center of buuuuut, that reduces the ease of use. Plus I would have to manually load all those damn disk.

    Looking for any input on the experience with one of these large capacity changers.

    #2
    Speaking as someone who had a CD collection measured in 1000's - just rip them to a hard drive.

    No matter what, you are going to have to store a cubic butt load of CD cases.

    The large capacity CD players always have transporter issues. There hasn't been any ground breaking developments in the field since the technology is dated now, and so no research is being devoted to improving the old designs.

    Not to mention, in order for a large capacity player to work, the laser itself will be left in the open, where it will collect dust quicker than a tighter sealed, single play unit. Plus, most use a vertical drive that tends to wear out quicker (vs a horizontal drive.)

    I would seriously just throw together a Media Center for cheaper and go from there.
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      #3
      I have an old clunky 250 disc unit. The issue with them, they are large and unless someone spent big money they tend to clunk. I do like having my music still on disc as back up though. It seems every know and then my iTunes account seems to loose music I have purchased or ripped from a disc.

      I'd just get one from Craigslist and you might be able to get some decent other stuff. I got a nice old school Marantz tube amp last year for 60 bucks.
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        #4
        Well I just checked with her and it turns out she has as many as 1000 CD's. I was just going off the ones I saw in the house. There's racks in the attic.

        So, Is there any way to use a media center without needing to turn on the TV?

        I was considering a small tablet with USB input to use an external amp. IDK there's way too many options. I just want it to be as simple as possible. The whole point is to be able to start music within just a few seconds.

        Gosh I wish she had (liked) an iPhone. I could just hook up a mac mini and use the remote feature from the phone. Done and done.

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          #5
          Buy a Synology DiskStation that supports their AudioStation app (which includes most models) and never worry about it again.

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          would be in depending on tip slant and tube size

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            #6
            CDs? Like records but smaller? Coasters?

            Ya burn them to HDD. Lossless. Take 'em anywhere.

            Ripping them will show true devotion and love.
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              #7
              If its all CD's id either torrent all the ones you can find that you own, (technically not illegal you own the CD's you re just skipping a step to make them digital) or rip them all, just buy like 5 plug in CD burners and take a day to rip them all to a 1TB HDD.
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                #8
                Originally posted by Wschnitz View Post
                If its all CD's id either torrent all the ones you can find that you own, (technically not illegal you own the CD's you re just skipping a step to make them digital) or rip them all, just buy like 5 plug in CD burners and take a day to rip them all to a 1TB HDD.
                Technically it is illegal. In order to get you also share to others who probably never did buy the hard copy.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by GAbOS View Post
                  Technically it is illegal. In order to get you also share to others who probably never did buy the hard copy.
                  Only if you have seeding on by default.
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                    #10
                    CDs may be dated, but they still sound better than an MP3. To rip them to a WAV file, you will need a huge dedicated hard drive to store them. All the large capacity CD changers have issues. I'd say find a good 5 disk changer and call it good. Yes you will have to get up and change the CDs every 5+ hrs, but its not that bad.

                    I've got a Rotel 5 disk changer that sounds amazing. Who cares if it was made in 1994. Sound quality is mind blowing. In my book, sound quality trumps everything else.

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                      #11
                      A few years ago a buddy embarked on a mission to copy 4000+ CDs to an external drive. He had the burner and drive under his desk at work and would load a disc whenever he had a free minute. IIRC it took eight months and multiple drives. On a side not, this dude had massive CC debt from buying CDs.
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                        #12
                        My father has ripped all of his. IMO its a good idea if it can be ripped at full quality. He has them on a protable HD, but I would back that all up on another HD incase the 1st one craps out

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by BlackbirdM3 View Post
                          CDs may be dated, but they still sound better than an MP3. To rip them to a WAV file, you will need a huge dedicated hard drive to store them. All the large capacity CD changers have issues. I'd say find a good 5 disk changer and call it good. Yes you will have to get up and change the CDs every 5+ hrs, but its not that bad.

                          I've got a Rotel 5 disk changer that sounds amazing. Who cares if it was made in 1994. Sound quality is mind blowing. In my book, sound quality trumps everything else.

                          Will
                          There are better ways to get lossless.

                          SHN files are great in the concert/soundboard recording sharing world.

                          And of course Rotel is good. MSRP on that bad boy in '94 was a pretty penny. Good quality lasts. I used a Rotel CD player to audition receivers and speakers.
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                            #14
                            Originally posted by TimeMachinE30 View Post
                            There are better ways to get lossless.

                            SHN files are great in the concert/soundboard recording sharing world.

                            And of course Rotel is good. MSRP on that bad boy in '94 was a pretty penny. Good quality lasts. I used a Rotel CD player to audition receivers and speakers.
                            You can find some really good deals on older Rotel stuff. I have a 5.1 Receiver that I picked up for $100, a single disk CD player that looks brand new for $50 (both sound amazing) and the 5 disk changer that I got for $120.

                            When I first got into stereo stuff the local high end audio place was a Rotel dealer and that was where I got my first taste. I couldn't afford anything made by Rotel at the time (I wanted to buy a single disk CD player but was talked into a 5 disk Yamaha changer that has served me well since.) I auditioned my Paradigm speakers on the Rotel system and it just blew me away. The clarity and detail that was reproduced was stunning. Skip forward 15 years and now I have the $ to buy Rotel stuff... used hahaha. Still, it sounds great so who cares. I have to say listening to any detailed piece of music on the Rotel system with my Paradigm Monitor 9s and 7s with a Velodyne sub is a very enjoyable experience. ( the downside is that when I stream music from Pandora over the computer into it, its very obvious that I'm listening to MP3 quality music.)

                            Will
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                              #15
                              you are killing me buddy!!? why don't you want to rip them onto a hard drive?

                              its really cheap, you get instant access to all of it, and......well....its just the way to go.
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