Advantages: Plays CD-Rs and CD-RWs. Remote control Disadvantages: As Henry Ford said - any colour you like as long as it's black.
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I bought the Yamaha CDX-496 as a replacement for my trusty Technics machine, which was about 10 years old, and bristling with features. My main reason for upgrading was the fact that the Technics was starting to get choosy as to which make of CD-Recordable disk it was going to play. Older CD players were built before recordable CDs were even thought of, and since a CD-R does not comply fully with the original specification for an audio CD, ... ...is was CD-R compatible. The Yamaha is not only that, but CD-RW compatible, which means that I can make erasable compilations as well.
At first sight, the Yamaha seems to have a neat minimalist design, with a slim facia and only a few buttons and no knobs to twiddle. It soon becomes apparent, that its wealth of features (mostly relating to its use as a source for recording), are controlled from the remote, which is a long slim affair.
For example, ...
BNibbles 09.11.2000 (05.06.2001)
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