Yamaha CDX-496

Description: Price (estimated): 159 £ / Remote Control: No / CD-R/CD-RW-Playback: Yes / Headphone-Out: Yes / Digital-Out: Optical

Newest Review: ... priority was to find a CD-player that actually specified that is was CD-R compatible. The Yamaha is not only that, but CD-RW ... more

... 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, there is the peak search facility – this finds the loudest patch in all of the tracks programmed for playing, and repeats this ...more

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Yamaha CDX-496: CD-RWs? No Problem! (545 words)
by - written on 18/01/01 (Very useful, 1397 readings)
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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 CD-R it was going to play. Having a CD-Burner in my PC means that I make a considerable number of compilation albums, and having to choose a particular make of CD-R was limiting me to the expensive ones only. Buying a CD-Recorder just to ensure reliable play-back of “burnt” disks, would have been excessive when I can write them on my PC with greater flexibility, like being able shorten tracks or fade them into each-other. ... Read the complete review

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