Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners CD player advise needed

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BrenR, good to hear, the Hk 8385 that i'm looking at seems like a decent unit, the price isn't bad either.

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Like I say, I'm happy as anything with my H-K CDP, it's on all the time - I've hauled it out a lot with work (just thrown it in a pelican case and off it goes to work a night here or there). I'm not one to defend something just because I own it - for instance, I'd never buy another Toshiba DVD player- a brand name screws you once - shame on them, they screw you twice - shame on you.

Bren R.

I'm kinda the same as Bren, except I had an old Kenwood changer. Used the crap out of it, then I gave it to a friend. I think the new Denon changers are a great deal, and look decent. I remember a friend had an older HK changer, and one thing that bugged me was that some of the buttons were located at the bottom of the player, so when you had the tray open, it was hard to get to those buttons as it was underneath the tray. A little annoying. Just a thought.

The buttons below the tray are:
Time, Repeat, Intro, Clear, Program

Only ones I ever use are Time and Repeat.

Bren R.

"...a brand name screws you once - shame on them, they screw you twice - shame on you."

Shame on me - I bought a second Panasonic cordless phone after the first one went through batteries like sh*t through a goose. Second one (different model) did the same thing.

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Shame on me - I bought a second Panasonic cordless phone after the first one went through batteries like sh*t through a goose. Second one (different model) did the same thing.

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Stay away from cordless phones and other low-drain devices that use Ni-Cad batteries... Ni-Cads like to be slammed - drained fast, charged fast. Lith-Ions and the new Lith-paste batteries are a lot better in low drain devices, they exhibit less memory effect... NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride) are also good but not as good as the Liths. And lead-acid, if you can take the weight are probably the most reliable - a lot of waist-packs for broadcast cameras are lead-acids, temperature doesn't affect them, they display very little, if any, memory and when the plates start getting corroded it's easy enough to clean them - just hook them up in serial to one pole of a higher voltage circuit and it'll burn off the crud.

Bren R.

Thanks Bren, I'll go see what kind of batteries are in the new phones I just bought.

Bren do you know of a good place to buy replacement batteries for phones in our area? I know my cordless has a Nickel-Cad battery in it and I wanted to find a Lithium-Ion if I could, to replace it. It is a Panasonic cordless (if that means anything).

G&S Battery or whatever it's called on McPhillips just south of the underpass (between Logan and the Casino) - place is a dive, but if Gord-o doesn't have it, they don't make it.

Bren R.

Beaut, thanks for the lead Bren, i'll check it out

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Thanks Bren, I'll go see what kind of batteries are in the new phones I just bought.

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Not that it's that big a deal - they'll last, just not as long. I've had a lot of experience with batteries, between RC car racing, cordless tools, cell phones, and now camera batteries so if anyone needs some advice on battery life and how to get the most out of them - let me know.

The problem with NiCds in low drain devices is the NiCds get used to a certain drain and charge pattern, cordless phones are the worst, they'll sit off the cradle for a few days barely trickling off the charge a few percent, then you'll use it to make a call, which puts a fair strain on it, then you'll throw it on the base and it'll begin a charge cycle with, say, 60% remaining in the charge, the battery starts believing that 60% is "empty" and only leaves you with the top 40% after a while.

Cordless tools are a lot easier to take care of, the rapid chargers get the batteries good and hot and if you use them a lot, the drain is steady and quick. To keep them in tip-top shape (my $80 Mastercraft 12V cordless driver/drill is still on the first set of two batteries while everyone else I know are on their 4th-6th Makita battery in the same timeframe) - use them as much as you have to, but never put them away for an extended period with a part charge, either run them out with the drill or build a cool little discharger out of 8-12 1157 bulbs hooked up in parallel and empty it completely (but don't let the bulbs go out if you build a discharger, take it off while they're still barely glowing or you might reverse the weakest cell in the pack) and recharge and store it that way.

Bren R.