"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:
Yup - I bought an 80 gig one for 80 quid recently. It's pretty good
for that price. Not sure it would be at the RRP, though. Since it
uses a computer CD drive it's a bit noisier than an audio CD. But if
you want a fairly basic stand alone jukebox system it's ok. But it
won't play MP3 CDs. Nor does it say anywhere just how many CDs it
will store.

Mmmm 80gb * 1024 = 81,920Mb If you take an 'average' CD of 600 Mb
then that's just over 136 CDs for WAV (which I'm presuming it is)
files.



There are three levels of compression (128/192/320 KB) available, I
gather - so there would be the opportunity to store a lot more albums
than that...??

It would seem so. Trying my most difficult one - solo piano - I just
settled on the maximum. I won't need *that* many in it anyway - the filing
system isn't of the best. Or probably just the display. To find things
fast you'd need a bigger screen.


For £80 i'd be tempted to rip the lid of and try and cram something
HUGE in there.



Yes, if it would recognise a 500 Gig disk and *could handle* that many
files it would be an awsome resource for not a lot of money, but the
matching Acoustic Solutions CD player (which is perfectly OK
sonically) can get confused with large numbers of MP3s on a CDRW, I
believe. I recall that the one I have here will start to miss off a
few seconds of each of the tracks, if it is subjected to a lot of
button-pressing and skipping about on the remote...??

Their gear seems to be a mixture of bought in basics and home grown
interfaces. So if you can get the information on the bought in stuff it
might be possible. I've not looked inside it yet. It will re-format a
drive, though.



Having bought an AS '3 piece suite' (from Argos) out of curiosity:

DAB - highly recommendable, has a headphone socket with volume control which
means you can use it *standalone* with 'phones (playing as I type)...

Amplifier - fairly weedy power, but useful with a line-level output which
means it can serve as a handy switcher to a single input amp (valve?) or it
can be cut into the chain before the main amp and used as an headphone amp
(now sold to someone who is doing just that)!

CD/MP3 player - slightly less recommendable IMO, but fine sonically - can
get confused with too much skipping about though, as I said earlier...

.....I would say the brand is a curious one with some interesting facilities
not often found on much more expensive kit (output level matching on the
jukebox being a good example) but cheap, sold in department stores and
pitched generally at kids? (Karaoke, Home Cinema and DJ'ing &c.?)

Anyway, some interesting comments on the jukebox he

http://www.digitalhomemag.com/review...bsectionid=938