The CD player on my 15 year old Dennon mini-system I use in my bedroom just started skipping. It was repaired 5 years ago but I don't think it is worth it now (unless someone can think of a cheap repair.)
I am interested in the following, which is the only mini-system I found that I like the sound of (and I scoured and listened to the terrain).
Problem is the system only plays one CD at a time. It says it plays a ton of different formats including MP3. I have never used MP3 (yet -- I have a 1 gig iRiver Flash player I haven't yet used.)
Does this system's spec's imply that I can hook up something like an MP3 player and be able to play multiple CD's that way? Is that easy to do?
Yamaha MCR 600: http://www.yamaha.com/yec/products/minis/mcre600.htm
Is the sound quality from an MP3 player as good quality as playing a straightforward CD?
It lists for about $550 but I can get on-line for about $420 total.
Though the sound is pretty good, I might add a Yamaha sub-woofer, defeating a little of the purpose of a mini-system in the bedroom.
It also has a DVD player, which I don't own yet (I watch movies on my laptop's DVD player
) so that might attract me for an interim movie watching experience if I decide to get a medium sized flat screen until I get "the big system", which won't be for quite a while.
I reproduce the specs here:
Progressive Scan Processing (NTSC/PAL)
High Quality Audio DAC
Versatile Format and Disc Compatibility: DVD+RW/+R, SVCD, VCD, Audio CD, CD-R/RW, MP3, and JPEG
54MHz/12-Bit Video DAC for High Picture Quality
Picture CD Playback with Display
MP3 Navigation Display
MP3 and JPEG (Multisession) Compatibility with Fast Forward, Rewind, Repeat and Shuffle Play
More details at the link.
Is there someway I can use MP3 or JPEG to get comparable quality CD sound with about 3-4 hours of non-stop music? What physical things do I need to do that? (E.g., An MP3 player? buy a big one to store all my CD's on?)

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