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Extremely sensitive to scratched or damaged CD's. About one third of my CD's which play fine in other players are unacceptable to the JVC changer. Playing in random is always exciting; "Which CD's will actually play this time?" The remote is also poorly laid out with miniscule buttons. Overall I'd say this is the worst piece of audio equipment I have ever owned

I have over 600 cds,because I hate radio.(boring) multiple cd machine with RANDOM PLAY is what I want. I bought a JVC-MC222BK. Plays great.RANDOM PLAY works good.Goes from cd to cd & song to song. The problem? When you program in select cds. RANDOM PLAY will only play the whole cd,not song search. I put it back in the box.(where it is now) I got a PIONEER PD-F1007 300 machine. works much better! Plus you can plug two of them together,to equal 600! The JVC XL-MC222BK is a good player. Amazon.com has a great price. But it does have set limits hard core music fans will not deal with.

This changer has an excellent sound quality for it's price range. It reproduces hall ambience and depth well, but is critical of poorly recorded material. Although it lacks digital outputs, the integrated DAC performs well. It tracks all dropout tracks on my test CD up to 2 consecutive of 2000 micrometers each. I prefer the CD jacket album that JVC provides to other brands' front panel title displays. Most displays are difficult to read from the listening position. I purchased a second album so that I can place both the front AND REAR covers above one another on one page (100 covers per album). That way I can read titles of individual tracks without having to remove the covers from the protective pages of the albums. I also saved the price of a CD storage tower. Downsides: Difficult to fit player in entertainment unit due to height and depth. Occasionally rejects lending-library CDs which have security strips glued to label surface (unbalanced disc). Rotating these discs 180 degrees when loading sometimes permits play.

My unit failed to work when I removed it from the box. I decided to take it to the factory repair facility because that would be less expensive than return postage and the time involved. It was repaired in about a week (door adjust I'm told.) It now seems to work fine. I have had no other problems with it.

I received my CD changer as a gift for my birthday,and every since I have received it, it hasn't worked properly, I put up with it because it was a gift, but now I have 200 of my favorite CD's suck in it. I would not advise anyone to purchase this CD changer.