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I bought a new Aiwa 5 CD changer with optical out from Best Buy and it
was only about $120 US.
LAS wrote:
>
> Hi. The tracking reliability of some older CD players is no where near the
> newer units.
>
> You can find new units with TOSlink outputs at such a low price that I don't
> think it pays to get an older unit. The lasers do tend to cause problems as
> they get older.
>
> If you are talking about an older unit for $25, that's one thing. But I don't
> think that one would be worth $75.
>
> The new Sony portable CD players that have digital optical outputs are, in my
> humble opinion, great. I have a D800 and it seems to be the best tracking CD
> player I have owned.
>
> Another option you have is to see if the CD ROM drive in your computer has the
> terminals for a digital output. You should be able to find a link from the
> community page on how to make a digital optical output for one.
>
> LAS.
>
> John Salomone wrote:
>
> > Hey All. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find some sort of record of
> > standard home CD player components that have digital outs. Obviously, the
> > manufacturer web sites (e.g. Sony) give specs for current models, but I'm
> > looking at buying a used older model. The web sites don't keep the specs up
> > for models other than this year's, so far as I can tell. Does anyone know
> > of some resource that identifies ALL the cd players, or at least the 20 most
> > popular brands, that have digital out, manufactured in , oh say the last
> > five years? If there is not such a thing in existence, it sure would be a
> > great resource for the Minidisc Community page is someone could create it!
> > Any thoughts or suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > John
> >
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