RCA RP8070 5-Disc CD Changer
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- Device Type: Changer
- Number of Discs: 5
- Outputs: Digital Audio Optical x 1 Headphone Jack
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Very inexpensive optical audio, but that's the only really good feature
Pros
It's very inexpensive and has optical audio
Cons
Poorly laid out remote, missing some standard features. Can't blank the display.
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
Inexpensive, and you get what you pay for
I bought this player because I needed a replacement CD player and this was the least expensive model in the store with optical audio. After using it, I now know why.
The RP8070 is a basic no-frills CD changer. You can insert up to five discs, shuffle-play them, and change discs without stopping playback - everything you'd expect from a basic player.
My first pet peeve is that the display never goes blank. When you switch it off, the display says "STDBY". I thought I could avoid this by hooking the player to my amplifier's switched power outlet, but that's even worse - whenever the unit is plugged in, it spins the tray around looking for discs, making you wait before you can actually switch on and press play.
My second peeve is the remote control. It is built into the shell meant to control something else - there are several buttons ("video", "tuner", "cd", "tape", "eq preset", "volume", "preset", "tuning" and "seek") which do absolutely nothing. The buttons that do work are "power", "mute", "track search", "play/pause", "stop", "repeat", "disc skip" and "shuffle". The following buttons on the console have no analagous buttons on the remote: "disc 1-5" (direct access), "open/close", "program", "ATS" (automatic track skip), "clear" and "intro".
The third issue is one that might not actually be with the player, but may be an amplifier problem. When using optical audio, the data stream starts the instant the audio starts playing. My amplifier takes a moment to sync up to the data, causing you to lose the first beat of the music. This happens whenever a disc spins up - after pushing "play" or after the carousel rotates to a new disc. There is no such problem with analog audio. I hesitate to call this a problem with the CD player, however, because another player (a Sony CDP-CE-375) also exhibits this problem. It may actually be an amplifier problem.
Overall, I would be disappointed, except that I didn't pay very much money. You get what you pay for.
The RP8070 is a basic no-frills CD changer. You can insert up to five discs, shuffle-play them, and change discs without stopping playback - everything you'd expect from a basic player.
My first pet peeve is that the display never goes blank. When you switch it off, the display says "STDBY". I thought I could avoid this by hooking the player to my amplifier's switched power outlet, but that's even worse - whenever the unit is plugged in, it spins the tray around looking for discs, making you wait before you can actually switch on and press play.
My second peeve is the remote control. It is built into the shell meant to control something else - there are several buttons ("video", "tuner", "cd", "tape", "eq preset", "volume", "preset", "tuning" and "seek") which do absolutely nothing. The buttons that do work are "power", "mute", "track search", "play/pause", "stop", "repeat", "disc skip" and "shuffle". The following buttons on the console have no analagous buttons on the remote: "disc 1-5" (direct access), "open/close", "program", "ATS" (automatic track skip), "clear" and "intro".
The third issue is one that might not actually be with the player, but may be an amplifier problem. When using optical audio, the data stream starts the instant the audio starts playing. My amplifier takes a moment to sync up to the data, causing you to lose the first beat of the music. This happens whenever a disc spins up - after pushing "play" or after the carousel rotates to a new disc. There is no such problem with analog audio. I hesitate to call this a problem with the CD player, however, because another player (a Sony CDP-CE-375) also exhibits this problem. It may actually be an amplifier problem.
Overall, I would be disappointed, except that I didn't pay very much money. You get what you pay for.
