> On 14 Dec 2021, at 21:41, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Around 35 years ago, I bought my first CD player, a Denon. It provided about > 25 years of trouble-free service. > > About 10 years ago it died, and I replaced it with another Denon. Two things > annoyed me: The buttons were labelled with dark grey symbols on a black > background (impossible to see in dim light), and the display was rubbish. > Where the old player had shown the number of tracks, the track being played, > the time remaining on that track, and the time remaining on the whole disk, > the new one just had the track number and the time remaining on that track. > > Denon #2 died last month after about 9 years, and I just bought a Yamaha. The > symbols over the buttons are a bit more visible, but it has the same stingy > information as the second Denon. > > C’mon. I can’t believe that a CD player that provided more information would > be significantly more expensive to produce. > > Rant complete.
Get rid of them all. I got rid of mine years ago because they, and the player, took up so much space. The cases are just more useless plastic, and at London property prices I figured I could get better value out of the square footage. When I want to listen to music now I stream it to my hearing aids, but you can rip the CDs to some sort of storage device (not vinyl…) and use a software player that gives you the information you want. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
