I’ve been looking and haven’t found any, but I know there are a good number of A/V geeks on the SDMB, so I thought I’d ask the TM: Are any manufacturers still making magazine-style CD changers for home audio (not car audio)?
Has everything gone to carousel and “jukebox” style?
I still see magazine style changers fairly frequently in new cars. A few people I know who own one of the Lexus SUVs all have a magazine style changer that I believe comes as an option from the dealer.
That’s great info, Martin!
Anyone know about home audio players?
I haven’t seen a magazine-loader home player in ages. Their main selling point was that you could swap the cartridges between the car-mounted player and the in-home player. Their main problem was the cartridges were about as fragile as the CDs and would jam if crud got into the mechanism or if they got banged around too badly.
Quite frankly, the stand-alone CD player is a dying breed, since all DVD players also play CDs, and more and more people are “ripping” their entire CD collection to their PC and playing them through things like a Squeezebox, Apple TV, or some other home entertainment server.
If you don’t want to go digital, but still want to house the CD collection in a “jukebox,” the Sony CDP-CX355 holds 300 CDs, and their CDP-CX455 holds 400.
I have a catalogue here from Full Compass, sound equipment supplier to industry. There are six pages of CD players, and none of them are magazine-load. They seem to have gone the way of the dodo.
Thanks, all!
Pioneer still makes one: Crutchfield
That link goes to Pioneer’s website, not Crutchfield, but I did find it at Vann’s, too.
Good to know!