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All my cds sounded like they were given a new lease of life and I finally felt I was truely doing justice to my speakers when it came to my cds. As it's been some time now and I have played literally hundreds of cds on this thing, I have to say that I am very pleased with its performance. Many of my cds that sounded terrible before now sound very good through the Onkyo. Don't let anyone tell you that your DVD player is good enough if you are an audiophile or into great music as a hobby like I am.
This product shows that you don't have to splurge to enjoy good quality sound from your cds. I decided to spend a little on a standalone, dedicated cd player and after doing some research online, I decided to give this Onkyo a chance and boy was the difference like night and day.
My Onkyo is connected through a TEAC amplifier using an optical digital out which is subsequently connected to 5 surround Robertson speakers which allows me to listen to my cds a number of different ways although I personally prefer to set it at stereo mode and hence using only the front 3 speakers. I'm convinced now that you don't have to spend thousands on a sound system as this Onkyo with optical digital out gets you great sound from your cds and at a much lower price.
I have to say that for what you get out of it, this is truly great value for money and I hope to continue enjoying my cds with this system setup for many years to come. I've had this Onkyo model for about a year now and I deliberately waited this long to do a review as I had heard that for some buyers, it took a few months for things to go awry and so I wanted to be sure I thoroughly "studied" mine before I gave my opinion.
Prior to my getting this set, I had a Sony microcompo set which I thought had good sound qualities and when that finally conked out after about 5 years, I tried using my Philips DVD player for my cds but the sound just didn't cut it for me. My version has an on/off switch as well as a standby mode and so I'm satisfied that I don't waste electricity if I don't want to stay on standby mode.Although there isn't a headphone jack, I'm not too bothered as I have a headphone jack on the TEAC amplifier that I connected this thing to and also as I rarely listen to headphones except when I'm on the go (through my MP3 player), I wasn't too concerned about this absent feature unlike others who have complained about it.
I like the 6 cd disc changer and the fact that I can remove cds while one of them is still playing and I feel the look of the set is very classy and cool especially the "night light" which you'll have to see for yourself to know what I mean. Highly recommended.
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