Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Furniture or mega-changer?

Just a very quick addition to the VERY thorough post above on megachangers- check their size to determine if they'll fit in your space.

I have two of the Sonys daisy-chained and they are everything as described...but boy are they deep. If you have deep shelves (especially enclosed) you'll never notice it... but put them on open racks like my Bello stand and they sure seem monstrous!

Thanks guys. I'm now leaning heavily towards daidy chained mega-changers for the cd's and a modest shelf/cabinet setup for the dvd's. Of course that's the priciest option, but certainly will have the highest SAF. I include myself in that...I don't want my living room looking like a blockbuster video store!

Here's what not to do:

(l-r) my CD racks in my office, her CD rack in her office and our DVD shelf in the living room.



Bren R.

Too funny Bren...but at this point, that looks good compared to what we're doing right now!

Do you have a PC and a home network? If so, you might consider a digital music player like the AudioTron (AudioTron) or the SqueezeBox (SqueezeBox). Both are two or three hundred dollars, and allow you to play thousands of CD's from your computer (assuming you have the disk space). The only real downside that I see is that you have to rip all your CD's to some other format (FLAC, WAV, or MP3) and store them on the computer. This get's over the one thing that I really don't like about the mega changers though, in that it always seems that when I want to listen to my current favorite CD it's somewhere I'm not (i.e. the car, at work, upstairs, wife's car, etc...). I've not purchased one yet, so I don't have any personal experience, but plan to unless there's something that I'm missing. I've already got both a wired and wireless network in my house (mostly used to share the cable modem), so I'm all set there.

That's where things are headed isn't it. Music from your PC. It's funny that saying that I want to keep and use my CD's makes me "old school". What does that make people who still listen to vinyl? Dinosaurs? (No offense meant to any LP lovers out there!)

Yeah, I guess it is where things are headed. I too like to own the physical CD, rather than downloading it from iTunes or some such service. It's just that when I want to listen to the CD, it'd be nice to not have to hunt around for it. Seems that the more CDs I get the more likely it is that I can't find the one I'm looking for -- some crazy inverse proportion relationship thing. Plus, I like the idea of being easily able to create play lists (via drag and drop on the PC).

If I had vinyl, I think I'd want to do the same thing for the same reasons.

Have you considered the 400 disc CD/DVD Mega Changers like the Sony Sony DVP-CX777ES or SONY DVP-CX985V. I'm pretty happy with the 300 disc version but keep eyeing the above that play SACD. I loaded the dvd's into the high end numbers going down and the cd's in from one up so I add discs to either end depending on type. No cases or racks to deal with at all.

I went the computer road years ago. Not sure why I did it but it has worked out. At first I thought it would be cheaper but after you add up a good sound card, bigass hard drives etc etc. I doubt it's that much cheaper. But you can't beat WinAmp and just letting tunes go based on genre, year or whatever you feel like. I currently have 2 hard drives devoted to MP3's. One is 100gig that is my main and another is a 160gig that serves as my back-up. I also tote around a USB External 80gig Maxtor. When I go to a buds or whatever, I take my tunes with me!

I was about to suggest the 400 disc Sony! It costs a little more and I couldn't find anything on-line that would tell me about its video processing capabilities (or is that a mature technology now, too?), but one of those and one of the 300 disc cheapos would work pretty damn well. I was thinking about that a while ago, now that I have so many baby videos.
Dunno about the remote question, spiff.