My Sony CDP-CE375 5-disc carousel changer had a major flaw which may or may not be present in all their units. When loading a cd in tray 1 often the cd player would not drop the disc down into it's play position and therefore the front info. panel would say "No Disc". You would have to press "open" and then "close" it again before the cd player would then do it the proper way. This can be very irritating to say the least. This particular cd player does have remote control as well as a headphone jack. There are volume controls on the remote which allow one to control the volume when using the headphone jack. There's also a jog dial to quickly switch tracks. You can play cd's, cdr's and cdrw's in the unit. A cool function of this unit is that you can change discs while one is playing. Also, this player has digital optical out if you want to record cd's digitally from the player to a cd recorder. The sound quality is excellent and I had no problems playing back cdr's or cdrw's. A good unit if the above mentioned problem didn't exist. Sony CDP-CE375 5-Disc Carousel-Style CD Changer
I have returned this unit twice to no avail. It has an irritating flaw of not recognizing/not loading a CD and skipping its place in the tray. Sometimes it plays all five CDs, sometimes only one. Not what I expected from Sony.
There are brands I trust and ones I don't. Sony has always been a trusted brand. But after buying and returning two of these units for very basic operationing flaws my confidence is shaken. I should have read these other reviews before I made my purchase, but because this unit is a Sony I trusted it would be a superior product. The problems I had in both units are the same ones mentioned by other reviews: When playing CDs in random mode the unit consistently fails to play all the songs before failing to load a CD and quitting. I followed the advice of another reviewer and bought the ONKYO DX C390 6 disc changer. I am hoping I have better luck.
This CD changer doesnt work well at all. We tried to play random, all discs and it just stops playing after about 5 or 6 songs. We thought it was just a fluke and have tried over and over and it does the same thing. If you are trying to entertain a group of friends with continuous music, it gets very frustrating having to get up and restart the darn thing. If you want something reliable, pass on the Sony. A message to Sony: spend less money on developing the new Playstation and more on making sure your other products function.
After about 20 years of service, during which time I never needed service, my SONY gave out, so I bought this one, hoping for continued good luck. My new SONY is not as simple to operate, which is not a negative aspect; considering my age, 76, and the changes occurring in the electronic field, I'm happy that I was able to master most of the refinements SONY has put in this new player and can enjoy my music again.
Stupidly thinking that SONY was a reputable audio company I bought and returned this CD player and one with more features this week. Problems? The systems would not read/play CDR - CDRW discs as well as several newer manufactured CDs. The "scanning - all discs" feature played unreliably - stopping after 20 minutes before all tracks were played. Coming from an era where you put a record on a turntable or a tape in a tapedeck and music plays - this selective playing is NOT acceptable. I returned both and purchased an ONKYO DX C390 6 disc changer (about 50$ more -well worth the quality)- wow what a difference. I will NEVER buy SONY again!!!
I just rescued my sister from the clutches of this CD player. She was having a few issues with it freezing up and the carousel rotation being a bit iffy...sometimes it would not go to the selected disk but overshoot to the next one.
Like most people who have no real experience with quality audio electronics, she bought this player at Best Buy mainly because of the Sony brand name recognition. After all, she is from the generation which grew up in the 80s when Sony was still making high quality products, whereas nowadays only their TVs are decent and their home and car audio stuff is mediocre to downright awful (the Sony Xplod car audio series in particular is awful both in performance and long term reliability, especially their car amps).
The sound quality on this CD player isn't awful, but it certainly isn't great---for a hundred and seventy dollars you can get an Oppo 980 which plays a gazillion different formats (both audio and video), is multi-region capable, and whose audio quality would wipe the floor with this player, as well as surpass most audiophile CD players costing up to seven or eight hundred dollars (e.g. a Rotel, Rega, or Cambridge Audio 640).
Now if you really must have a multi-disk player, I would recommend a Marantz CD4001, or if you want to stay within the one hundred to two hundred dollar ballpark, go to accessories4less dot com and look at their refurbished Marantz carousels (cc4300 and cd4001), or even their Onkyo and Denon refurbs. My sister ending up getting the Onkyo carousel from them for about the same price as this Sony, and is much happier---more reliable, better build quality and sound quality.
In short, the only decent quality audio gear that Sony still makes is their ES series of receivers and CD players, but at that price range you'd still get much better sound performance for the money from smaller audiophile makes like Cambridge Audio, NAD, Marantz, just to name a few. Whatever mass-market audio gear (including DVD players) that Sony makes nowadays is just a marketing-driven effort to cash in on their brand name recognition while using the cheapest possible subcontractors. I won't say they're quite as horrible as Bose though, because at least Sony doesn't use an 800% markup or pursue the same shady business practices as Bose (which once sued Consumer Reports for an unfavorable review). - 5 Cd Changer - Cd Changer - 5-disc - Cd Player'
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