#1 Tangent CDII....Nice.
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 3:10 pm
Visited Richer Sounds in York on Thursday and came away with a Tangent CDII mini CD player for £149.
My old and decrepit Sony CDP930-XB had gone to meet its maker and as the missus and me were in York on an OAP coach trip, she (not me) decided it would be a good time to replace the shagged out Sony with something a bit more modern, and when she saw the price it was nuff said. She hates using the computer and hates Apple Music even more.
This designed in Denmark, made in China, player has no programming, no display and is a black box with a slot on the front to take the CD. Controls are stop, pause, start, forward 1, back 1. You insert a CD and it plays: thats it! This is hair shirt CD playback taken to its absolute limits. As we can see it’s tiny.
Below a bit more detail: The amount of music that comes out of this black box is staggering considering the price.
Great service from the guys at the York branch goes without saying.
Only fly-in-the-ointment is it doesn’t do gapless playback, so your Floyd stuff and your live albums are royally fooked.
Apart from that silly problem. The Tangent is a great sounding player for less than the price of a good MM cart, and these days I’m thankful such bargains exist.
Maybe Nick could make a few bob hacking the firmware to enable gapless.
My old and decrepit Sony CDP930-XB had gone to meet its maker and as the missus and me were in York on an OAP coach trip, she (not me) decided it would be a good time to replace the shagged out Sony with something a bit more modern, and when she saw the price it was nuff said. She hates using the computer and hates Apple Music even more.
This designed in Denmark, made in China, player has no programming, no display and is a black box with a slot on the front to take the CD. Controls are stop, pause, start, forward 1, back 1. You insert a CD and it plays: thats it! This is hair shirt CD playback taken to its absolute limits. As we can see it’s tiny.
Below a bit more detail: The amount of music that comes out of this black box is staggering considering the price.
Great service from the guys at the York branch goes without saying.
Only fly-in-the-ointment is it doesn’t do gapless playback, so your Floyd stuff and your live albums are royally fooked.
Apart from that silly problem. The Tangent is a great sounding player for less than the price of a good MM cart, and these days I’m thankful such bargains exist.
Maybe Nick could make a few bob hacking the firmware to enable gapless.