Remember back when this stuff was popular and the more, bigger components you had, the bigger your stereo cabinet, the better it was? Like it was a competition who had the most equipment. Equalizer, stereo, amp, duel cassette deck, disk changer and what ever else you could throw in there. Early 2000s had the disk burner. Good times. It's amazing how now the smaller and less stuff, the better.
@@Daveyk021 Hey, I have big speakers and they sound fantastic and do it with only 1 or 2 watts driving them from a single ended tube amp. Saying that most of my background listening these days is internet radio streamed to home made smart speaker. The little wood speaker i rebuilt a few weeks back and stuck the mono board in has not been turned off since I put it together. It sits in the kitchen playing background music from relaxing jazz.com 24/7. The stereo plate amp in the jvc speakers runs in the shop at very low levels too. You can hear that one sometimes in the background. The CD player and turntable for when i want to listen to something specific.
I remember wishing that they'd make one of these with a DVD writer instead of the standard CD player, so I could do all my data backups. Sounds like a great idea and I have seen a couple of articles online on how to convert one of these (not a Sony though iirc) to full DVD writer functionality, but of course these days that's not so impressive as 200 x 4.7Gb is still less than 1Tb of storage, and you can carry that around in your pocket in 2021. Having said that, if I ever managed to get hold of this type of unit I think I'd be really tempted to do the conversion as DVDR is still a very useful format to have around (despite what all the millennials on UA-cam may tell you) and this kind of gear is still very cool
@@lesoram6236 I have tons of CDs i bought on the 80s 90s and into 2000s. Then i started recording off the music channels i get with my cable package. I don't buy anything now. I record off the music channels on my cable TV package which is no different than recording off the radio.
@@lesoram6236 You pay for music? Despite having a large CD collection, I haven't bought music in years - it's all there for free on UA-cam and a simple Firefox extension is all you need to download it to whatever device you want it on, with none of thar DRM garbage
Chrysler had the car version of those CD jukeboxes. 50 or 100 disc vertical loaders too. You'd control it all from your dashboard while the unit was mounted in the trunk or tailgate area of a minivan. If I remember correctly, they were Denon models mostly.
What a good idea with the plexiglass cover! Paint some wild metal flake colors and set up some leds out of sight to throw some light in there. Good idea man!
Great video again,I recently picked up a Denon 100 changer "PCM 5000",Its built like a tank,all metal, disk rack n all,its actually bigger than this unit and only takes 100 cd,s.It has the ability to link up many slave units and has 2 laser mechs inside for the cross fade between discs,Text as well and has HDCD capability.it weighs 16kg
I recently picked up 2 300 changer units from a store that was using then as their music system. Using the same sync method you mentioned, they also used it to shuffle songs/cds.
I love these old so-called mega changers. For my part, i have a Pioneer PDR-W839 which only has a 3 disc changer but also has a single CD recorder deck. I refurbished this machine myself and it sounds fantastic.
@@12voltvids I've got a JVC CDR recorder that requires "music CDs" to burn to in real time. It's a neat looking unit that I primarily use for playback. I also have two HHB CD recorders that burn to any CDR in real time as well as another HHB unit that has two burners in one which can use regular disks in real time or high speed duplication between tray 1 and tray 2. Great Professional Quality machines. When I bought them I had to sign legal paperwork that I wouldn't illegally duplicate copyright material (store bought CDs). I take that seriously ... but now you can dupe almost anything in your computer using inexpensive programs that both copy and burn copyright material. Tascam also had a CDR recorder that could use regular computer CDRs to burn to.
I picked up a Sony 300 disk changer with mega control and front keyboard that someone tossed out don't know why i took it being so big but glad i did now, it does play and sounds good but it it's stuck on just playing a few random tracks and maybe stereo not working right but now that i seen where you were able to clear the program you got my interest back up just like you did about 8 reel to reel tape players back ha ha i am even now still useing my old Zenith Allegro stereo speakers from the 1970's yes i have a lot of old equipment from the 40's to the 80's when it all went down hill, my (opinion) keep the videos coming, thanks.I picked up a Sony 300 disk changer with mega control and front keyboard that someone tossed out don't know why i took it being so big but glad i did now, it does play and sounds good but it it's stuck on just playing a few random tracks and maybe stereo not working right but now that i seen where you were able to clear the program you got my interest back up just like you did about 8 reel to reel tape players back ha ha i am even now still useing my old Zenith Allegro Wedge stereo speakers from the 1970's yes i have a lot of old equipment from the 40's to the 80's when it all went down hill, my (opinion) keep the videos coming, thanks.
I must be the oddball because I have a 400 cd version of this and it's completely full and I still have probably 200 more cds sitting on the shelf ! Lol
CD text was extremely cool, I suppose it didn't take off as well as the creators thought it would. Two things I noticed not every CD had CD text and every CD player had the display that would show CD text. I'm not aware of any portable ones, some home equipment could. The sure fire ones that did was stand alone music CD burners. The coolest thing I really like too was the VU meters the stand alone CD music recorders had. Not necessary for playback but still cool to watch as they were on home stereo cassette decks as well and showed signal during both recording and playback. For CD recorders you could tell if the CD was made as loud (loudness wars) as the peak meters were mostly solidly on maybe the zero DB would go out one in a while. One thing is for sure they sure killed the dynamic range of the music it was just mostly loud through out the tracks. My thoughts I have a volume control and I know how to use it LOL.
I would make a copy of a CD without CD text and put the CD text onto the copy with the data base on the internet. Now you have the backup copy for the car with CD text
I have a Sony CDP-CX455 400 Disc CD Changer and Sony CDP-CX53 50+1 CD Changer. Wish sony did not discontinue these units. I love these Sony Mega CD Changers.
What I did was make a compilation. Since most CDs had only a few, 2 or 3 good tracks with a bunch of filler crap, I copied all the tracks I liked onto 80 minute disks. That way more bang for your buck.
@@countzero1136 I don't know if this one plays an MP3 disc or not I'll have to try it and see. Most DVD players will play MP3 discs so it's very likely that the Sony 400 disc DVD changer will likely play MP3 but I've never had my hands on one someday perhaps somebody will give me one and then I'll have one to play with but I won't go out and buy one. In fact I don't buy any vintage deer people give me stuff that they're getting rid of and I try to fix it and make use of it but I won't go out and buy anything myself I'm too cheap especially when people give me stuff. My catch phrase is buying vintage audio is for fools. That's because there's so much of it available for free if you wait you can find it. I also know there's lots of people that pick up stuff for next to nothing put a little into it as they possibly can and then sell it to these unsuspecting suckers on eBay or Canuck audio.
@@12voltvids Yeah I didn't expect that it would have MP3 capability - I think you have to have a CD player made after 2010 to be reliably certain that it will handle MP£, so that'll be mostly in-car CD units or mini-stereo systems as I don't think too many "hifi" type CD units were made after that. Personally I play my CDs on a DVD player and that plays MP3 as well so no issues there - I was just wondering how insane it would be to have a unit that holds 200 or more MP3 CDs with 120-150 tracks per disc :)
These were great before iPods. My little brother had I think a 50 disc changer in the 90's, and he learned the hard way about moving it with discs inside. One of the first components I ever took apart to fish out discs.
I still have all my old CDs - too many to fit into a unit like this (maybe the 400-disc version would do it). Of course over the years I've ripped them all to MP3 and play them from my NAS, but I would never want to get rid of my physical media - I got burned like that when I got rid of all my vinyl records, then a couple of years later it was back in vogue and if I'd have kept it all I could have made a bloody fortune selling it all on ebay. Not going to get burned like that again, no way!
I recently purchased one of these units and wanted to know if there is any maintenance I should do with it? The bands are still good and everything but it does fail to feed/extract a disk every so often and just flings a disk somewhere into the unit. Do I need to grease up the gears somewhere? And if so what grease do you recommend?
Nice video! I'm still rocking a CX230. With this thing, I can load an entire boxset or maybe a couple boxsets into it and never need to bother with the package again.
My jog/dial knob isn’t working properly. When the door is open it won’t spin the carousel around properly. It will actually move it sometimes back and forth or the reverse direction of what it’s supposed to go and doesn’t move very far either. Otherwise the player will play the discs fine. Any suggestions ?
I still have a 5 disc changer by Onkyo and once in awhile I fire it up and keep it going! But i'm into vinyl now and got a good collection going! Oh Yeah still have a sony double cassette and still play that once in awhile! It's good to hear the old analog stuff!
@@12voltvids I have alright hearing and I have older recordings and mostly 60's through 80's and I keep them very clean and I like the sound! I use a shure cartridge and I have no rumble or distortion and i can shake pictures off my wall!
@@Jammerk40 I will. uncompressed digital true to the sound the artist intended. Those sticking for old analog equipment are still in denial. Or haven't heard a good system.
@@Jammerk40 Hey i listen to my vinyl from the 60s and 70s too. But modern music recorded in a modern studio can not be compared. My records are also very clean and spotless. (not the ones I use in the shop, they are old test records that have lots of dirt and scratches) but If i don't keep the low cut filter on, you can see the woofers shaking and give it just a little volume and the next problem is feedback from the sound actually vibrating the vinyl and acting like a microphone. I use a nice old thorens table with a Shure cartridge. My speakers are huge, with 15" woofers and they move tons of air effortlessly. Vinyl has 50db s/n and perhaps 45db seperation. Cd has 100db for both. Can't even be compared. So vinyl good for limited quality analog recordings but nothing analog can match a full digital recording.
Great video, very informative. I think that these jukebox were a pretty decent product. The warning not to move a unit full of disc should be common sense... these were meant to be a stationary unit.
Amazing! I didn't know a 200cd changer even existed!! I also hate that horrible rubber coating, my expensive radio was covered in it and the whole thing was sticky to pick up, it ruined a good radio, I took off the coating as well but it left it looking like cheap plastic after. Very bad move on the manufacturers part.
I have two Pioneer changers, one takes 301 discs & the other 101 discs, both were very cheap, one had jammed up, the other was just a dirty laser. Both have a warning not to move with discs loaded. cool items, though never knew Sony made one.
Sony invented them. Started with a 50 then 100 disk then 200, 300 and 400 changer. They else had DVD and then Blu-ray 400 disk changers. I know someone that has the 400 Blu-ray player. Has all his Blu-ray / DVD and CDs in it. Still has room for more too.
@@12voltvids Thanks, does your Sony have a computer interface like the Pioneer ones? Apparently it is possible to use it to control it like a jukebox, but never got round to trying it out. I have seen the DVD version, but would love a blu-ray machine.
@@markpirateuk I am sure it could be controlled as it does have the a1 control port. That is how it controls the secondary unit. These were devoloped for automated radio station use and there are probably stations still using them.
Love these videos, they've helped me so much with my 200 disc changers, thank you. I got one out of someone's garbage, then bought one used so I could do the link/crossfade. I have a question; I'm trying to figure out how to skip (go to next track) using the crossfade feature, and can't seem to come up with a way to make it work. If I just let them play, when one track ends, it fades out and the next player's cued up track fades in. But if I want to skip ahead to next track while one is playing (hit the >>| button), it ignores the "linked" feature between the two; the music stops, the carousel rotates, etc. to next track, without fading out the playing track and fading in the cued up track. It's as if hitting (>>|) just ignores the whole "linked players" feature. Is that by design or is there a way to do this? It seems to me like if these units are "smart" enough to fade one out an the next in, it would do it when I hit (>>|) too. The players are CDP-CX240 (primary) and CDP-CX205 (Secondary). Thanks for any help.
Enjoyed this video. I see them on market sites and at thrift stores for reasonable prices. I might grab one to play with. I have a 110+1 Technics that is very reliable.
This must be how the modern Jukeboxes work? Never had to look at one. I never knew these things were even made! I would have loved to own one, but they would have been well out of my price range anyway! Thanks for showing us it :-)
@@12voltvids I used to laugh at the amount of people that asked the Jukebox to play the same track, it would only play it once! A lot of money was made that way! If you wanted it to play a track, ask for something no one else would be wanting to listen to. Problem was with some of them, there was too much choice! I have not gone to these type of pubs for years, maybe it is video/track now and a lot more money for it to play a track!
Cut that disc out of there it's probably scratched anyways, lol. Hopefully you get to how to lubricate the carousel. I have a great machine but sometimes sounds like it is laboring when the carousel turns. Hoping there's a screw or hole on bottom that avoids total disassembly :)
Dave that’s a nice video you put together. I’m just a little jealous (lol), if I had two like you have, Beatles discs in one machine and Badfinger in the other. Great job buddy!👍
@@12voltvids With bootlegs and multiple mastering versions the Beatles could come close to filling one of the units ... if you were insane enough to collect them all. And then the rest of the slots could be filled with Badfinger disks (the Welsh Beatles).
@@chriscutress1702 Beatles and badfinger meh. Neither were that great. They were alot more famous than their music dictated. Beatles had a few good albums but their music was pretty simplistic.
@@12voltvids At least they didn't use the constantly repeated chord and rhythm structure that 99% plus of the crap that's on the current radio charts today use. Radio programmers and record A&R reps have pushed material that sound the same regardless of the artists. Turn on a current POP music radio station and it's often hard to tell the difference between one song and the next. Same chords and same beat. No real challenge for current DJ's to match beat and key because everything's written in the same key using the same beat and chord structure.
@@chriscutress1702 that's why i listen to jazz. Always something interesting. Enjoy it while you can because the great masters are getting long in the 🦷. Every year we lose more if them. At least they have the forsight to record their live performence so we can enjoy their work after they are gone.
My Sony DVP-9000ES reads SACD text, but will not read CD text as I recall. It does have some kind of text memory which you have to enter with the remote (big hassle, and only a title).
I certainly like it and once i get it set up with the other one it will be full of disks. My living room is a little cluttered. Had to clear out a few houses and it is all stored in my living room as i get rid of " old people's belongings". I wanted 2 pieces from an estate, a grandfather clock and a 1of a kind sculpture of a sailing ship all done in copper leaf and copper wire. The movers that were dropping off the clock dumped the rest of the load as well and said here you go. You have it all now. I had high end lamps made out of bronze, trunks, big marble tables with glass tops. You name it. Slowly getting rid of this stuff. Belonged to a rich client of my wife who had to go to an old folks home. Will be nice when i can actually get to my stereo again to listen to it as that is the corner everything is stored in.
I have a 400 disc unit, used to have 2 of em connected. I think the rubber bands/belts on mine are stretched and need replaced. I used to play it on random ALOT which probably stretched belts from the platter spinning so much
I have a beautiful Technics multi disc player I got for free as well - it's not a carousel - SL MC7 over 100 cd's - love the design and method of inputting the CD's ... - it does a decent job of shuffle - but like most shuffle mechanisms - they have some annoying traits 'not so random' and totally miss some tracks after many hours of playback.
@@Vladimir-ju7gc easy; Acrylic makes a very hi and blue tooth receiver for integrating my iPhone in to my stereo system (actually kind of quad, not that I have too many true source media for it).
wow. so if 400 discs isn't enough you could buy 2 of them and have double the capacity at double the costs, if 400 isn't already a lot of discs for a single player.I could imagine if you wanted to get them all out without opening it, it would take at least a whole afternoon if not an entire day.
We are so spoilt. We forget the poor Japanese crafstman / person who built this machine gets bullied like fudgery until they produce a workable and sellable machine.
I had two of the sony vaio 200 CD DVD recorder firewire juke boxes. But they only worked with Windows XP media edition. I few people had written drivers that turned them into something a bit more useful, but they never really worked very well. I always might to port the drivers over to Linux MT tape tools, but never got around to it... I finally tossed them out, as they were just too darn big!
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How do you find out about these music "claims?" *I swear l can be humming some music and years later l hear a pop group version of my song!* Is it because of our collective subconscious ie if you hum some music you "composed" yourself _get it copyrighted asap_ as someone else may have been tuning in to your music 🤔 on the connected* subconscious frequency! *Collective but connective sounds better
Great vids mate. I have acquired a 200 disc changer recently, which keeps on changing the discs without playing, even changed the laser pickup, but still it won’t play anything. - Ends up saying no disc. Any advice??
Own 6 disc tec CD changer multi play magazine cartridge / Pioneer 500 magazine need the original remote / original 1992 Sony 5 disk changer mint condition fully works
Great video like always, 👍 Hey just score one of the 200cd from goodwill full of cd's. They were jammed disks so I opened it up and removed all the disk. Put back a few disks and it wants to play it spins at high speed unloads and moves to the next disk and continue to repeat that same pattern . Any ideas what it can be ? Maybe the pick up laser ? Much appreciated if can help.
Check that the traverse gears are not sticking. It is either a sticking traverse, laser or spindle motor. Also make sure it is clamping correctly. Look for disk wobble.
@@12voltvids traverse gears are the one from the pick up motor and spindle assy ? Clean and removed old grease and lubricated like in your other videos, lubricated, front door and blue switch located bottom of pickup gears, no wobble on cd. I think going to order the pickup laser Kss-213b from the bay and report back. PS: also I didn't see any visible laser firing or maybe is infrared ? thanks
Ok finally got the pick up and spindle assy. From China, now the whole as an assembly it's not the same so I took the laser pick up and swap it and I get the same symptoms. So the spindle??? How you test that ? I check the ohms and I get 14.6 Ohms on both motors the original spins very fast with no wobble. I saw the laser fired throughout my camera lens it's not that bright however it fires up and then shuts down.
@@12voltvids PS - A new REM remastered album is on pre-order on vinyl too. LOL so much for me thinking physical media is dead. BTW, if they remaster an album and release it on vinyl, you know it was digitally re-mastered; does that make the new vinyl album digital? LOL I know digital to analog conversion, but is it truly analog anymore?
I forget whilst Americans were paying $3-5 dollars for cd music disks we in the UK were paying £10-20 + so we were subsidising yours really.* *STOP HERE PERSONAL RANT COMING* Before people go on a rant French and German companies own our utility companies in the UK - their electric and gas is part of their rent whilst we in the UK are paying £300-400+ bills ie we are paying for French and Germans to be warm and cozy in winter whilst we freeze in the uk as we are too afraid to switch on the heat for fear of massive bills. BTW l got over this by switching my fidge-freezer 0FF do you know *my bill went from £280-380 down to £16 per bill.* 🤣GOAL⚽️ I was only using my fridge to cool milk as l was out working 18 hour days so my fridge was like a reverse ATM for Germans and French. 🤣
High Five from another victim of UK price-gouging ! I still laugh at Americans who are always crying about gas prices approaching $5 per gallon - it's nearly twice that much over here!
Heh the captions say "Sleeve" when you say The Bad Word. Works for me. We could name the other thing "Muster", that way we don't have to change all the abbreviations and still be politically correct with our electronics.
Have owned 2 Sony CD Jukebox's, both of which ended in the trash, where as Pioneer are like Tanks. Problem is 200-300-400 CD/ROMS is a lot of weight for that cheap plastic.
@@12voltvids My 1st reply from 12 volt, have had 2 Sony 300 & 50, the 300 some major plastic broke, never took it apart, the 50 started with laser pick-up and just got worse. For me Sony and JVC are evil and have never been good to me. Miss seeing your Cat on opening of video.
@@robertdavis5714 biggest problem I've seen with the pioneers is the lens falling out because they use the upside down pickup. Changed hundreds of those over the years. Pretty much every six disc pioneer CD changer I've ever worked on either required a spindle motor or an optical pickup. Sometimes I get lucky and find the lens that fell out stuck in the mechanism somewhere it was able to be reattached other times it was lost and then required a new pickup. Some of the early Sony 50 and 300 exchangers had a few issues the 200 they got right because they used a more beefy mechanism I haven't seen any 400s.
@@12voltvids If I remember correctly your name is "Dave" and we seem to be about the same age.Thanks for the tip on the Pioneer and never tip it upside down, I personally would never, but a shipping company would.
@@robertdavis5714 No no the pioneer the optical pickup is upside down. When you load the discs in the cartridge they're all put in label side down that's because the optical pickup is above the disc and therefore the laser lens is pointing down. Pioneer did it initially because they thought that having the optical pickup facing down would prevent dust from collecting on it which it does however what also happens is the laser lens works its way loose eventually and falls out. It has nothing to do with shipping a unit they just fall out in normal use. The number of units I've seen where the optical pickup lens has fallen out was in the hundreds when I worked in the business. Even since leaving the business and just working from home every pioneer 6 or greater disc player I have seen that uses the cartridge style loading system the optical pickup has fallen out on every last one.
I wish. No only regular audio CD. The mega DVD changer probably can but i don't have one of those. I use my Blu-ray player for that. Burned a 25 gig bd-r disk full of mp3. Just load that and let it play all day. Do the same with DVD media. Make specific playlists of hundreds of tracks. The bdr media holds about 4500 mp3s.
Over the years I've scored a fair few cool items that people have dumped out because of that sticky crap, yet some IPA and a small amount of effort are all that's needed in most cases to get the thing looking like new :)
@@countzero1136 I have a red dell laptop and it stuck to my hands, horrible. i used the same as you to remove it, but wd40 and petrol were on standby just in case lol. It's rather dull now but so much better to handle :-D I won't buy anything with that coating on now.
I recall Friend with a Technics, kinda 60 cd rockola type. He just moved to a new house, the Tech was on the floor. I grabed it see this cooool contraption ... suddendly it sounded like a demolition inside, all the discs fell past a cord that was used as a barrier on the drawer of the machine. The disc just went all over the PCB and other parts. My friend was irritated. Not becuase the mess, but because there was a lot of programs stored on the machine, it was made long ago, he had no track of the CD positions ... so .... bye bye programs plus plenty some scratches on the CD too. I'm no dennying being dumb on this one, but ... what a poor design ... tipical 90s Technics .... nice look and crap construction.
I have probably between 320 and 360 CDs so the 400-disc unit would be needed if I was in the market for something like this (I've been collecting CDs from around 1986 until the mid-late 2000s, but I get all my music from UA-cam these days)
@@countzero1136 yeah myself I haven't bought any CDs in years. Picked up all my commercial discs between about 1983 to early 2000s. Once I got my CD burner in my computer I started making my own, recording from the music services like music choice or DMX that I could get on my big old satellite dish, would record hours upon hours onto digital audio tape and then when I had perhaps 10 2-hour tapes recorded I would sit down on a rainy day and start going through these tapes and recording the tracks that I liked onto my computer once going through all the tapes I would rerecord them again and do the same used to record an entire box of 10 actually I think they were 3-hour tapes they were the computer tapes that ran longer than the regular audio tapes built up a huge library of music recorded off of these digital services are the old satellite dish. That's where a lot of my library of music came from. Now I just grab it off UA-cam. Use that software I showed off a few years ago that lets you save any UA-cam content but it will also convert formats so even off of a video I can save it as an MP3 or a wave file or whatever I want. I don't mention the name of the software because I did a review on it and UA-cam took my video down because the software allows storing their protected content. Every time UA-cam updates their algorithm to stop it these guys have an update within a day or two. My original review of the software I believe is still up but I did an update showing it not working to download a UA-cam video and then it working after putting the new update on because some troll had winded complained that it no longer worked so I showed how to update it and that video got clipped because it violated their TOS as it basically circumvented the dmca. Saying that I have hundreds of discs and I've already recorded. When I download or record from my table service which I still do I back everything up on the CD I supposed to just keeping it on my hard drive. I have CDR desks that I recorded back in the late 90s but play perfectly. Despite what some claim that recorded CDs and DVDs do not last that is incorrect they do last. Maybe some cheap no name brand discs sold 20 years ago didn't last but the name brand discs have all been fine providing that you don't scratch them or write on them are stick labels on them I always write just to the clear hub portion and not on the writable area unless I use a water-based pen because the biggest problem with CDR was a chemical reaction between the ink and the lacquer coating which damaged it and made the CD unreadable. That was people's biggest mistake that and using those CD stompers to stick labels on them.
@@12voltvids Yeah I have no issues at all reading discs that I burned in the late 90s - as long as they don't get scratched it's a very viable long-term backup medium.
How about one on how the damn thing works and how to set it up. Mine seems to do everything but play a damn cd. Bought a "working" 300 CDP CX-355 off Ebay - Fortunately , I bought a warranty but I'm just not sure I'm setting it up correctly - downloaded the manual which is really vague from Sony
Hope you didn't pay much as these things are being given away. I got 3 for Free. CDs go in label facing right. Load 1 to full capacity if disks and press okay. They are pretty straight forward. If it doesn't play, well I have a couple videos documenting a few faults I have found.
Remember back when this stuff was popular and the more, bigger components you had, the bigger your stereo cabinet, the better it was? Like it was a competition who had the most equipment. Equalizer, stereo, amp, duel cassette deck, disk changer and what ever else you could throw in there. Early 2000s had the disk burner. Good times. It's amazing how now the smaller and less stuff, the better.
He who has the biggest speakers won. Now (could be my hearing), a lot of these tiny blue tooth speaks sound amazing.
@@Daveyk021
Hey, I have big speakers and they sound fantastic and do it with only 1 or 2 watts driving them from a single ended tube amp. Saying that most of my background listening these days is internet radio streamed to home made smart speaker. The little wood speaker i rebuilt a few weeks back and stuck the mono board in has not been turned off since I put it together. It sits in the kitchen playing background music from relaxing jazz.com 24/7. The stereo plate amp in the jvc speakers runs in the shop at very low levels too. You can hear that one sometimes in the background. The CD player and turntable for when i want to listen to something specific.
I like your kool Sony 200 dij
I like your new Sony disk changer 200
@@greggaieck4119 yes it is nice and had an even nicer price.
I remember wishing that they'd make one of these with a DVD writer instead of the standard CD player, so I could do all my data backups. Sounds like a great idea and I have seen a couple of articles online on how to convert one of these (not a Sony though iirc) to full DVD writer functionality, but of course these days that's not so impressive as 200 x 4.7Gb is still less than 1Tb of storage, and you can carry that around in your pocket in 2021. Having said that, if I ever managed to get hold of this type of unit I think I'd be really tempted to do the conversion as DVDR is still a very useful format to have around (despite what all the millennials on UA-cam may tell you) and this kind of gear is still very cool
They did. And Blu-ray too. You can find them for sale all the time.
@@12voltvids damn, for blu-ray you could make an impressive archive system...
This reminds me of LTO tape libraries
Awesome score! I got the 300 CD capacity model from the junk yard a while back, nothing wrong with it. Still plays along!
Lucky lucky thing
@@johnkean6852 I always have my eyes open for "free" units. I was offered a 400 disk player, but the guy wanted 400 for it.
I'm jealous they would let you stroll up and take that, well anything really.
Paid a small chunk $150 or so for a working used unit off E-bay - crooks abound there I know -
Looking at a device like this is bittersweet. There was a time where I would have dreamed of such a device. Now I wouldn't know what to do with it.
It's big, but I have a big house.
@@lesoram6236
I have tons of CDs i bought on the 80s 90s and into 2000s. Then i started recording off the music channels i get with my cable package. I don't buy anything now. I record off the music channels on my cable TV package which is no different than recording off the radio.
@@lesoram6236 I have CDs that I converted to FLAC and buy music online. CDs are a hassle in 2021.
@@lesoram6236 NO it didn't have an @(name) so I assumed it was meant fo rme.
@@lesoram6236 You pay for music? Despite having a large CD collection, I haven't bought music in years - it's all there for free on UA-cam and a simple Firefox extension is all you need to download it to whatever device you want it on, with none of thar DRM garbage
Chrysler had the car version of those CD jukeboxes. 50 or 100 disc vertical loaders too. You'd control it all from your dashboard while the unit was mounted in the trunk or tailgate area of a minivan. If I remember correctly, they were Denon models mostly.
Love the video. You've inspired me to dig my 400 disc Sony player out and add it into my current setup. Cheers!
What a good idea with the plexiglass cover! Paint some wild metal flake colors and set up some leds out of sight to throw some light in there. Good idea man!
Yup they are cool to watch operate. Like an old jukebox.
Is that a project you're planning to do? I'd watch it!
Great video again,I recently picked up a Denon 100 changer "PCM 5000",Its built like a tank,all metal, disk rack n all,its actually bigger than this unit and only takes 100 cd,s.It has the ability to link up many slave units and has 2 laser mechs inside for the cross fade between discs,Text as well and has HDCD capability.it weighs 16kg
Nice!
I recently picked up 2 300 changer units from a store that was using then as their music system. Using the same sync method you mentioned, they also used it to shuffle songs/cds.
Yes they are great players. I have 3 200 disk changed 2 in use and a spare.
I love these old so-called mega changers. For my part, i have a Pioneer PDR-W839 which only has a 3 disc changer but also has a single CD recorder deck. I refurbished this machine myself and it sounds fantastic.
The problem with the stand alone cd recorders are they require special disks. I burn in computer.
@@12voltvids That is true, fortunately i was able to buy some at a very good price. I also have a Tascam CDR-W700 which can burn to regular discs.
@@12voltvids I've got a JVC CDR recorder that requires "music CDs" to burn to in real time. It's a neat looking unit that I primarily use for playback. I also have two HHB CD recorders that burn to any CDR in real time as well as another HHB unit that has two burners in one which can use regular disks in real time or high speed duplication between tray 1 and tray 2. Great Professional Quality machines. When I bought them I had to sign legal paperwork that I wouldn't illegally duplicate copyright material (store bought CDs). I take that seriously ... but now you can dupe almost anything in your computer using inexpensive programs that both copy and burn copyright material. Tascam also had a CDR recorder that could use regular computer CDRs to burn to.
I picked up a Sony 300 disk changer with mega control and front keyboard that someone tossed out don't know why i took it being so big but glad i did now, it does play and sounds good but it it's stuck on just playing a few random tracks and maybe stereo not working right but now that i seen where you were able to clear the program you got my interest back up just like you did about 8 reel to reel tape players back ha ha i am even now still useing my old Zenith Allegro stereo speakers from the 1970's yes i have a lot of old equipment from the 40's to the 80's when it all went down hill, my (opinion) keep the videos coming, thanks.I picked up a Sony 300 disk changer with mega control and front keyboard that someone tossed out don't know why i took it being so big but glad i did now, it does play and sounds good but it it's stuck on just playing a few random tracks and maybe stereo not working right but now that i seen where you were able to clear the program you got my interest back up just like you did about 8 reel to reel tape players back ha ha i am even now still useing my old Zenith Allegro Wedge stereo speakers from the 1970's yes i have a lot of old equipment from the 40's to the 80's when it all went down hill, my (opinion) keep the videos coming, thanks.
I must be the oddball because I have a 400 cd version of this and it's completely full and I still have probably 200 more cds sitting on the shelf ! Lol
...well l have a 650 version...
800 ... 1300 ... ha ha good one 🤣
CD text was extremely cool, I suppose it didn't take off as well as the creators thought it would. Two things I noticed not every CD had CD text and every CD player had the display that would show CD text. I'm not aware of any portable ones, some home equipment could. The sure fire ones that did was stand alone music CD burners. The coolest thing I really like too was the VU meters the stand alone CD music recorders had. Not necessary for playback but still cool to watch as they were on home stereo cassette decks as well and showed signal during both recording and playback. For CD recorders you could tell if the CD was made as loud (loudness wars) as the peak meters were mostly solidly on maybe the zero DB would go out one in a while. One thing is for sure they sure killed the dynamic range of the music it was just mostly loud through out the tracks. My thoughts I have a volume control and I know how to use it LOL.
I would make a copy of a CD without CD text and put the CD text onto the copy with the data base on the internet. Now you have the backup copy for the car with CD text
I have a Sony CDP-CX455 400 Disc CD Changer and Sony CDP-CX53 50+1 CD Changer. Wish sony did not discontinue these units. I love these Sony Mega CD Changers.
A 200 Disc changer would be handy except I'd still have to figure out how to play the other 4000+ discs in my collection.
What I did was make a compilation. Since most CDs had only a few, 2 or 3 good tracks with a bunch of filler crap, I copied all the tracks I liked onto 80 minute disks. That way more bang for your buck.
@@12voltvids Does this unit (or any like it) play MP3 CDs? That would be another great way to get an entire music collection together :)
@@countzero1136 I don't know if this one plays an MP3 disc or not I'll have to try it and see. Most DVD players will play MP3 discs so it's very likely that the Sony 400 disc DVD changer will likely play MP3 but I've never had my hands on one someday perhaps somebody will give me one and then I'll have one to play with but I won't go out and buy one. In fact I don't buy any vintage deer people give me stuff that they're getting rid of and I try to fix it and make use of it but I won't go out and buy anything myself I'm too cheap especially when people give me stuff. My catch phrase is buying vintage audio is for fools. That's because there's so much of it available for free if you wait you can find it. I also know there's lots of people that pick up stuff for next to nothing put a little into it as they possibly can and then sell it to these unsuspecting suckers on eBay or Canuck audio.
@@12voltvids Yeah I didn't expect that it would have MP3 capability - I think you have to have a CD player made after 2010 to be reliably certain that it will handle MP£, so that'll be mostly in-car CD units or mini-stereo systems as I don't think too many "hifi" type CD units were made after that. Personally I play my CDs on a DVD player and that plays MP3 as well so no issues there - I was just wondering how insane it would be to have a unit that holds 200 or more MP3 CDs with 120-150 tracks per disc :)
@@countzero1136 i expect that the DVD version probably did but I have never had one to test.
These were great before iPods. My little brother had I think a 50 disc changer in the 90's, and he learned the hard way about moving it with discs inside. One of the first components I ever took apart to fish out discs.
IPOD and other digital music players are fine for taking your music with you, but you just can not beat the sound of an uncompressed CD
Cool inner workings, like an old jukebox.
Yeah I like the idea of fitting this thing in a clear case like a real jukebox - how cool would that be!
Awe man this stuff brings me back. I don't know if I even own 1 cd anymore, none the less 200 plus like back in the day.
I still have all my old CDs - too many to fit into a unit like this (maybe the 400-disc version would do it). Of course over the years I've ripped them all to MP3 and play them from my NAS, but I would never want to get rid of my physical media - I got burned like that when I got rid of all my vinyl records, then a couple of years later it was back in vogue and if I'd have kept it all I could have made a bloody fortune selling it all on ebay. Not going to get burned like that again, no way!
I love these. I have 2 400’s a 300 and a 200 dvd unit
Me jealous.
I recently purchased one of these units and wanted to know if there is any maintenance I should do with it? The bands are still good and everything but it does fail to feed/extract a disk every so often and just flings a disk somewhere into the unit. Do I need to grease up the gears somewhere? And if so what grease do you recommend?
Nice video! I'm still rocking a CX230. With this thing, I can load an entire boxset or maybe a couple boxsets into it and never need to bother with the package again.
400 disks ... wow ... i never saw one with 200, i would love to have one, nice score there.
My jog/dial knob isn’t working properly. When the door is open it won’t spin the carousel around properly. It will actually move it sometimes back and forth or the reverse direction of what it’s supposed to go and doesn’t move very far either. Otherwise the player will play the discs fine.
Any suggestions ?
That cross fade is right on too.
I still have a 5 disc changer by Onkyo and once in awhile I fire it up and keep it going! But i'm into vinyl now and got a good collection going! Oh Yeah still have a sony double cassette and still play that once in awhile! It's good to hear the old analog stuff!
Vinyl, yuck. Only for old recordings. Too much rumble and distortion for my ears. You can't hear the distortion? Time to get those ears checked.
@@12voltvids I have alright hearing and I have older recordings and mostly 60's through 80's and I keep them very clean and I like the sound! I use a shure cartridge and I have no rumble or distortion and i can shake pictures off my wall!
Each to his own! Enjoy your digital! I will enjoy my analog!
@@Jammerk40 I will. uncompressed digital true to the sound the artist intended. Those sticking for old analog equipment are still in denial. Or haven't heard a good system.
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Hey i listen to my vinyl from the 60s and 70s too. But modern music recorded in a modern studio can not be compared. My records are also very clean and spotless. (not the ones I use in the shop, they are old test records that have lots of dirt and scratches) but If i don't keep the low cut filter on, you can see the woofers shaking and give it just a little volume and the next problem is feedback from the sound actually vibrating the vinyl and acting like a microphone. I use a nice old thorens table with a Shure cartridge. My speakers are huge, with 15" woofers and they move tons of air effortlessly. Vinyl has 50db s/n and perhaps 45db seperation.
Cd has 100db for both. Can't even be compared. So vinyl good for limited quality analog recordings but nothing analog can match a full digital recording.
Paint the inside with black light paint, like the player pianos at the old Shakey's Pizza Restaurants.
Sweet these units link up. Never knew they could do that. 👍
Great video, very informative. I think that these jukebox were a pretty decent product. The warning not to move a unit full of disc should be common sense... these were meant to be a stationary unit.
Well, when alcohol is involved, common sense goes out the window.
Every time I see one of these things whether it's got 25 or 100 slot it's always got a CD stuck in it somewhere...
Amazing! I didn't know a 200cd changer even existed!! I also hate that horrible rubber coating, my expensive radio was covered in it and the whole thing was sticky to pick up, it ruined a good radio, I took off the coating as well but it left it looking like cheap plastic after. Very bad move on the manufacturers part.
I also have a Sony CDP-CX240 200 Disc Mega Changer.
I have two Pioneer changers, one takes 301 discs & the other 101 discs, both were very cheap, one had jammed up, the other was just a dirty laser.
Both have a warning not to move with discs loaded. cool items, though never knew Sony made one.
Sony invented them. Started with a 50 then 100 disk then 200, 300 and 400 changer. They else had DVD and then Blu-ray 400 disk changers. I know someone that has the 400 Blu-ray player. Has all his Blu-ray / DVD and CDs in it. Still has room for more too.
@@12voltvids Thanks, does your Sony have a computer interface like the Pioneer ones?
Apparently it is possible to use it to control it like a jukebox, but never got round to trying it out. I have seen the DVD version, but would love a blu-ray machine.
@@markpirateuk I am sure it could be controlled as it does have the a1 control port. That is how it controls the secondary unit. These were devoloped for automated radio station use and there are probably stations still using them.
Love those machines! Would be nice to make a show casing for it, resembling an (old) jukebox.
(But I guess someone already has done so?)
I have the machine on 300CD I have everything in CD-TEXT, I'm happy with it, good machine, never a similar problem
I'm with you paint the inside metallic blue with black and silver add some neon lights too.
That would look cool wouldn't it.
Love these videos, they've helped me so much with my 200 disc changers, thank you. I got one out of someone's garbage, then bought one used so I could do the link/crossfade. I have a question; I'm trying to figure out how to skip (go to next track) using the crossfade feature, and can't seem to come up with a way to make it work. If I just let them play, when one track ends, it fades out and the next player's cued up track fades in. But if I want to skip ahead to next track while one is playing (hit the >>| button), it ignores the "linked" feature between the two; the music stops, the carousel rotates, etc. to next track, without fading out the playing track and fading in the cued up track. It's as if hitting (>>|) just ignores the whole "linked players" feature. Is that by design or is there a way to do this? It seems to me like if these units are "smart" enough to fade one out an the next in, it would do it when I hit (>>|) too. The players are CDP-CX240 (primary) and CDP-CX205 (Secondary). Thanks for any help.
Great video. I have owned a CDP-CX230 for many years and I love it. Lately, it has been skipping tracks. What could be wrong?
Enjoyed this video. I see them on market sites and at thrift stores for reasonable prices. I might grab one to play with. I have a 110+1 Technics that is very reliable.
i got one exactly , you've got to physically push buttons to name tracks
This must be how the modern Jukeboxes work? Never had to look at one.
I never knew these things were even made!
I would have loved to own one, but they would have been well out of my price range anyway!
Thanks for showing us it :-)
Yes they work pretty much how all the CD jukeboxes work. They made 300 and 400 disk units and dvd / Blu-ray players too. That's overkill.
@@12voltvids I used to laugh at the amount of people that asked the Jukebox to play the same track, it would only play it once!
A lot of money was made that way!
If you wanted it to play a track, ask for something no one else would be wanting to listen to. Problem was with some of them, there was too much choice!
I have not gone to these type of pubs for years, maybe it is video/track now and a lot more money for it to play a track!
Cut that disc out of there it's probably scratched anyways, lol. Hopefully you get to how to lubricate the carousel. I have a great machine but sometimes sounds like it is laboring when the carousel turns. Hoping there's a screw or hole on bottom that avoids total disassembly :)
Dave that’s a nice video you put together.
I’m just a little jealous (lol), if I had two like you have, Beatles discs in one machine and Badfinger in the other. Great job buddy!👍
Beatles and badfinger didn't have that many disks.
@@12voltvids With bootlegs and multiple mastering versions the Beatles could come close to filling one of the units ... if you were insane enough to collect them all. And then the rest of the slots could be filled with Badfinger disks (the Welsh Beatles).
@@chriscutress1702 Beatles and badfinger meh. Neither were that great. They were alot more famous than their music dictated. Beatles had a few good albums but their music was pretty simplistic.
@@12voltvids At least they didn't use the constantly repeated chord and rhythm structure that 99% plus of the crap that's on the current radio charts today use. Radio programmers and record A&R reps have pushed material that sound the same regardless of the artists. Turn on a current POP music radio station and it's often hard to tell the difference between one song and the next. Same chords and same beat. No real challenge for current DJ's to match beat and key because everything's written in the same key using the same beat and chord structure.
@@chriscutress1702 that's why i listen to jazz. Always something interesting. Enjoy it while you can because the great masters are getting long in the 🦷.
Every year we lose more if them. At least they have the forsight to record their live performence so we can enjoy their work after they are gone.
My Sony DVP-9000ES reads SACD text, but will not read CD text as I recall. It does have some kind of text memory which you have to enter with the remote (big hassle, and only a title).
Nice CD player glad you fixed it 👍
I certainly like it and once i get it set up with the other one it will be full of disks. My living room is a little cluttered. Had to clear out a few houses and it is all stored in my living room as i get rid of " old people's belongings". I wanted 2 pieces from an estate, a grandfather clock and a 1of a kind sculpture of a sailing ship all done in copper leaf and copper wire. The movers that were dropping off the clock dumped the rest of the load as well and said here you go. You have it all now. I had high end lamps made out of bronze, trunks, big marble tables with glass tops. You name it. Slowly getting rid of this stuff. Belonged to a rich client of my wife who had to go to an old folks home. Will be nice when i can actually get to my stereo again to listen to it as that is the corner everything is stored in.
I need to look at the 200 disc changer I have in my collection. Was told it has loading issues and wondering if it's just a stuck or broken CD.
I would have broken the disk to retrieve it (to save time.)
You have to be careful not to damage the player mechanism though...
@@countzero1136 ok geddit thanx
I kinda think the bare steel looks good in an industrial sorta way.
I have a 400 disc unit, used to have 2 of em connected. I think the rubber bands/belts on mine are stretched and need replaced.
I used to play it on random ALOT which probably stretched belts from the platter spinning so much
Wouldn't mind a pair of 400s
They use toothed belts. They don't stretch
I have a beautiful Technics multi disc player I got for free as well - it's not a carousel - SL MC7 over 100 cd's - love the design and method of inputting the CD's ... - it does a decent job of shuffle - but like most shuffle mechanisms - they have some annoying traits 'not so random' and totally miss some tracks after many hours of playback.
We've come a long way. I'm pretty sure I could fit 200 CDs (in lossless format!) on my phone, if not my watch.
Ok, so play with the phone on your home device :D
@@Vladimir-ju7gc easy; Acrylic makes a very hi and blue tooth receiver for integrating my iPhone in to my stereo system (actually kind of quad, not that I have too many true source media for it).
A long way backwards, from the perspective of a media junkie like myself.
The pinnacle in my mine is minidisc, after that it all went boring.
I LIKE 👍 THE MUSIC 🎼 YOU WERE PLAYING IN THIS VIDEO THANKS FOR SHARING THIS CD 💿 PLAYER T TYPE IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE OF MY BAF EYESIGHT
Damnit... now I want to get a couple of these. :D
It's not called the slave - I think you mean the main unit would be referred to the Master
wow. so if 400 discs isn't enough you could buy 2 of them and have double the capacity at double the costs, if 400 isn't already a lot of discs for a single player.I could imagine if you wanted to get them all out without opening it, it would take at least a whole afternoon if not an entire day.
We are so spoilt. We forget the poor Japanese crafstman / person who built this machine gets bullied like fudgery until they produce a workable and sellable machine.
Yep, 16 bit red book is as good as audio ever needs to be.
It exceeds the human hearing range by a fair margin.
I had two of the sony vaio 200 CD DVD recorder firewire juke boxes. But they only worked with Windows XP media edition.
I few people had written drivers that turned them into something a bit more useful, but they never really worked very well.
I always might to port the drivers over to Linux MT tape tools, but never got around to it... I finally tossed them out, as they were just too darn big!
Ultimately it's much cheaper and more convenient to store all your media on hard drives these days, but these units are still really cool
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How do you find out about these music "claims?"
*I swear l can be humming some music and years later l hear a pop group version of my song!*
Is it because of our collective subconscious ie if you hum some music you "composed" yourself _get it copyrighted asap_ as someone else may have been tuning in to your music 🤔 on the connected* subconscious frequency!
*Collective but connective sounds better
Great vids mate. I have acquired a 200 disc changer recently, which keeps on changing the discs without playing, even changed the laser pickup, but still it won’t play anything. - Ends up saying no disc. Any advice??
Does it try to spin the disk? Spindle motor.
@@12voltvids yes, it takes the discs in, spins them for like 5-10secs and then puts them back, and moves onto the next disc.
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Could be the spindle motor. Not spinning up fast enough to read the disk.
Such a neat device!
"Fatburger Good News" Nice score!
I have enough CDs to run a radio station.
Own 6 disc tec CD changer multi play magazine cartridge / Pioneer 500 magazine need the original remote / original 1992 Sony 5 disk changer mint condition fully works
Nice find I have one of those a Sony cdp cx235
The early CDRs were better quality . Ive got some party mixes made in 1997 that still play and theyve had a hard life .
there's a remote socket in the back
They also made 400 version
And a 300 disk version, and a DVD and Blu-ray version.
Great video like always, 👍 Hey just score one of the 200cd from goodwill full of cd's. They were jammed disks so I opened it up and removed all the disk. Put back a few disks and it wants to play it spins at high speed unloads and moves to the next disk and continue to repeat that same pattern . Any ideas what it can be ? Maybe the pick up laser ? Much appreciated if can help.
Check that the traverse gears are not sticking. It is either a sticking traverse, laser or spindle motor. Also make sure it is clamping correctly. Look for disk wobble.
@@12voltvids traverse gears are the one from the pick up motor and spindle assy ? Clean and removed old grease and lubricated like in your other videos, lubricated, front door and blue switch located bottom of pickup gears, no wobble on cd. I think going to order the pickup laser Kss-213b from the bay and report back. PS: also I didn't see any visible laser firing or maybe is infrared ? thanks
@@angelmatos5428 either pickup or spindle motor. Usually pickup.
Thanks man !
Ok finally got the pick up and spindle assy. From China, now the whole as an assembly it's not the same so I took the laser pick up and swap it and I get the same symptoms. So the spindle??? How you test that ? I check the ohms and I get 14.6 Ohms on both motors the original spins very fast with no wobble. I saw the laser fired throughout my camera lens it's not that bright however it fires up and then shuts down.
I think they had a DVD changer as well
They did. 400 disk, and a bluray changer as well but why?
@Taco I had a 400 CD unit very cool to watch in action
@@12voltvids blue ray unit went well over a grand but cool tech
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Yes I know. Overkill.
This is an awesome machine! I love watching those mechanisms!
Even though physical media is dead; that player is too cool!
Physical media is far from dead. I burn my own CDs from stuff i download or record off the music service. I don't buy into music subscriptions.
@@12voltvids I even record music to audio cassettes even though I wasn't really around during that era. I'm 21 and I use old technology frequently.
@@TheVCRKing I also record on audio cassettes and also on Reel-to-Reel, MD, CD, etc.
@@Vladimir-ju7gc Reel to reel! Now that's way back in time. I do burn CDs too but not as much as recording music to audio cassettes.
@@12voltvids PS - A new REM remastered album is on pre-order on vinyl too. LOL so much for me thinking physical media is dead.
BTW, if they remaster an album and release it on vinyl, you know it was digitally re-mastered; does that make the new vinyl album digital? LOL I know digital to analog conversion, but is it truly analog anymore?
I wish I had one of these.
I forget whilst Americans were paying $3-5 dollars for cd music disks we in the UK were paying £10-20 + so we were subsidising yours really.*
*STOP HERE PERSONAL RANT COMING*
Before people go on a rant French and German companies own our utility companies in the UK - their electric and gas is part of their rent whilst we in the UK are paying £300-400+ bills ie we are paying for French and Germans to be warm and cozy in winter whilst we freeze in the uk as we are too afraid to switch on the heat for fear of massive bills.
BTW l got over this by switching my fidge-freezer 0FF do you know *my bill went from £280-380 down to £16 per bill.* 🤣GOAL⚽️
I was only using my fridge to cool milk as l was out working 18 hour days so my fridge was like a reverse ATM for Germans and French. 🤣
High Five from another victim of UK price-gouging !
I still laugh at Americans who are always crying about gas prices approaching $5 per gallon - it's nearly twice that much over here!
@@countzero1136 thanx for reply
Heh the captions say "Sleeve" when you say The Bad Word. Works for me.
We could name the other thing "Muster", that way we don't have to change all the abbreviations and still be politically correct with our electronics.
Have owned 2 Sony CD Jukebox's, both of which ended in the trash, where as Pioneer are like Tanks. Problem is 200-300-400 CD/ROMS is a lot of weight for that cheap plastic.
My original one is over 20 years old and has been full of disks all that time. Never skipped a beat. Used all the time on random play.
@@12voltvids My 1st reply from 12 volt, have had 2 Sony 300 & 50, the 300 some major plastic broke, never took it apart, the 50 started with laser pick-up and just got worse. For me Sony and JVC are evil and have never been good to me. Miss seeing your Cat on opening of video.
@@robertdavis5714 biggest problem I've seen with the pioneers is the lens falling out because they use the upside down pickup. Changed hundreds of those over the years. Pretty much every six disc pioneer CD changer I've ever worked on either required a spindle motor or an optical pickup. Sometimes I get lucky and find the lens that fell out stuck in the mechanism somewhere it was able to be reattached other times it was lost and then required a new pickup. Some of the early Sony 50 and 300 exchangers had a few issues the 200 they got right because they used a more beefy mechanism I haven't seen any 400s.
@@12voltvids If I remember correctly your name is "Dave" and we seem to be about the same age.Thanks for the tip on the Pioneer and never tip it upside down, I personally would never, but a shipping company would.
@@robertdavis5714
No no the pioneer the optical pickup is upside down. When you load the discs in the cartridge they're all put in label side down that's because the optical pickup is above the disc and therefore the laser lens is pointing down. Pioneer did it initially because they thought that having the optical pickup facing down would prevent dust from collecting on it which it does however what also happens is the laser lens works its way loose eventually and falls out. It has nothing to do with shipping a unit they just fall out in normal use. The number of units I've seen where the optical pickup lens has fallen out was in the hundreds when I worked in the business. Even since leaving the business and just working from home every pioneer 6 or greater disc player I have seen that uses the cartridge style loading system the optical pickup has fallen out on every last one.
So cool, how many of them could you link in total?.
I think 3
Can it play mp3 files?
I wish. No only regular audio CD. The mega DVD changer probably can but i don't have one of those. I use my Blu-ray player for that. Burned a 25 gig bd-r disk full of mp3. Just load that and let it play all day. Do the same with DVD media. Make specific playlists of hundreds of tracks. The bdr media holds about 4500 mp3s.
Box it using normal bevelled crystal glass _not_ plexi glass - better. 🤔
Sony sure thought ahead, master and slave systems just waiting for the right cable.
Yep that sticky coating is horrible, such a crap idea.
Over the years I've scored a fair few cool items that people have dumped out because of that sticky crap, yet some IPA and a small amount of effort are all that's needed in most cases to get the thing looking like new :)
@@countzero1136 I have a red dell laptop and it stuck to my hands, horrible.
i used the same as you to remove it, but wd40 and petrol were on standby just in case lol.
It's rather dull now but so much better to handle :-D
I won't buy anything with that coating on now.
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I recall Friend with a Technics, kinda 60 cd rockola type. He just moved to a new house, the Tech was on the floor. I grabed it see this cooool contraption ... suddendly it sounded like a demolition inside, all the discs fell past a cord that was used as a barrier on the drawer of the machine. The disc just went all over the PCB and other parts. My friend was irritated. Not becuase the mess, but because there was a lot of programs stored on the machine, it was made long ago, he had no track of the CD positions ... so .... bye bye programs plus plenty some scratches on the CD too. I'm no dennying being dumb on this one, but ... what a poor design ... tipical 90s Technics .... nice look and crap construction.
Cool..
cool player
Sell done ur a lucky man
That disk changer is col. Leave it to sony.
Who the hell has 400 CDs dose anyone even have 100 CDs man that’s a lot of CDs
I can fill both of these and still have another 5 to 600 more in storage.
I have probably between 320 and 360 CDs so the 400-disc unit would be needed if I was in the market for something like this (I've been collecting CDs from around 1986 until the mid-late 2000s, but I get all my music from UA-cam these days)
@@countzero1136 yeah myself I haven't bought any CDs in years. Picked up all my commercial discs between about 1983 to early 2000s. Once I got my CD burner in my computer I started making my own, recording from the music services like music choice or DMX that I could get on my big old satellite dish, would record hours upon hours onto digital audio tape and then when I had perhaps 10 2-hour tapes recorded I would sit down on a rainy day and start going through these tapes and recording the tracks that I liked onto my computer once going through all the tapes I would rerecord them again and do the same used to record an entire box of 10 actually I think they were 3-hour tapes they were the computer tapes that ran longer than the regular audio tapes built up a huge library of music recorded off of these digital services are the old satellite dish. That's where a lot of my library of music came from. Now I just grab it off UA-cam. Use that software I showed off a few years ago that lets you save any UA-cam content but it will also convert formats so even off of a video I can save it as an MP3 or a wave file or whatever I want. I don't mention the name of the software because I did a review on it and UA-cam took my video down because the software allows storing their protected content. Every time UA-cam updates their algorithm to stop it these guys have an update within a day or two. My original review of the software I believe is still up but I did an update showing it not working to download a UA-cam video and then it working after putting the new update on because some troll had winded complained that it no longer worked so I showed how to update it and that video got clipped because it violated their TOS as it basically circumvented the dmca. Saying that I have hundreds of discs and I've already recorded. When I download or record from my table service which I still do I back everything up on the CD I supposed to just keeping it on my hard drive. I have CDR desks that I recorded back in the late 90s but play perfectly. Despite what some claim that recorded CDs and DVDs do not last that is incorrect they do last. Maybe some cheap no name brand discs sold 20 years ago didn't last but the name brand discs have all been fine providing that you don't scratch them or write on them are stick labels on them I always write just to the clear hub portion and not on the writable area unless I use a water-based pen because the biggest problem with CDR was a chemical reaction between the ink and the lacquer coating which damaged it and made the CD unreadable. That was people's biggest mistake that and using those CD stompers to stick labels on them.
@@12voltvids Yeah I have no issues at all reading discs that I burned in the late 90s - as long as they don't get scratched it's a very viable long-term backup medium.
Who owns 200 cd's noone ... but you 🤣
I have over 1000 disks most I never listen too. Currently have about 380 in my 2 200 disk players and i run them all the time.
How about one on how the damn thing works and how to set it up. Mine seems to do everything but play a damn cd. Bought a "working" 300 CDP CX-355 off Ebay - Fortunately , I bought a warranty but I'm just not sure I'm setting it up correctly - downloaded the manual which is really vague from Sony
Hope you didn't pay much as these things are being given away. I got 3 for Free.
CDs go in label facing right. Load 1 to full capacity if disks and press okay. They are pretty straight forward. If it doesn't play, well I have a couple videos documenting a few faults I have found.