Yamaha CD player review

Scott Reid takes a look at a unique new bit of hi-fi kit.

Transcript

00:00So this is Yamaha's new CDC-603 compact disc player, multi-changer.

00:06And it's a pretty cool machine, but the coolest feature of all, probably, is the ability to do this while you're playing one of the five discs.

00:13And that is use the play exchange mode, which opens the drawer.

00:19The music's still playing. The reason you can't hear it is because of copyright reasons.

00:23But what I can do now is change over any of the four discs, or indeed all of the four discs,

00:29while that fifth disc is actually playing.

00:33Simply do that.

00:36Press the play exchange button again, as opposed to the normal eject button, which would stop play.

00:40That disc's still playing.

00:43And now I can go and select any of the other four discs.

00:49Takes a couple of seconds or so to load up while the carousel moves.

00:57And any second now it should be starting to play that disc, which it is now.

01:04And obviously you can go to any track on that disc, either using the front two buttons or the remote control.

01:13And that disc's now playing. That's disc number three.

01:17If you eject the mechanism, you have access to the other discs.

01:22Disc number three at the top here, numbered, is obviously inside the machine.

01:26You've got access to discs two, one, five and four.

01:31And these can easily be changed over.

01:33So that has to be probably the neatest feature.

01:37You can simply load it with five CDs and let it play for five or six hours continuously.