Sony CDP-CX230 201 Disc Changer Review

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Sony CDP-CX230 201 Disc Changer
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Jack Waterson.'s Review of Sony CDP-CX230 201 Disc Changer CD Player

30th May 2003

Overall Rating

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  • Value for money
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  • Features
    2.5 stars
Good Points

200 CD capacity, progammable, lots of features


Bad Points

It doesn't work half of the time and at times completely destroys my CDs!


General Comments

At first glance, this 200-CD changer looks awesome! Random play, programmable text, make your own music programs, etc. etc. However, once I put in my CDs, about half of the time the selected CD gets lodged halfway between the place where it's supposed to play and the slot where it's stored. Then the carousel turns - think of a baseball card in the spokes of a bicycle tyre, except that the spokes are all of my CDs getting scratched all to hell. Now most of my CDs have serious scratches in them, and certain songs won't even play anymore. Other times, the machine tries to put a CD back into the wrong slot where there already is a CD, and it just jams it in there and this has actually broken some of my CDs right in half!!! Sure it has lots of features, but what good are these features if the machine just destroys my CDs. Very poor design, very poor quality. I will never again buy a Sony CD player.

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Members' Comments onJack Waterson.'s Review

  • Double A. on 8th Jun 2003

    I think what you have is a lemon. A defective unit, rather than a design problem. I have a Sony CDP-CX450 that holds 400 discs. I've had it for a couple years and use it constantly. I have never had a single failure of the CD handling mechanism (or anything else for that matter).

    Double A

  • bob falfa on 6th Jan 2004

    i have a 200 cd player myself{sony CDP-CX230} . had it for 3 years + now, and never had one problem with it ,ever.. it sounds a bit clunky , but works fine... i'm thinking about moving up to the 400!!!

  • Chip palmer on 29th Aug 2004

    I agree with the review. I've had my Sony player damage a number of CDs and break one in half yesterday.