bigjohn, my experience is like Stuart's (expatbrit). I have had a Yamaha 5-disk CD-only carousel for about 10 years. It gets VERY heavy use, as I usually have it on "random" play every day. Despite all the moving its parts have done, I can report no problems whatsoever. And the access time on carousel players is very fast compared to jukeboxes (provided you have only one jukebox).

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