Sony CDPCX455 400 Disc MegaStorage CD Changer

 (91 customer reviews)

I owned a perfectly wonderful Pioneer, 100 Disc CD changer. Since my CD collection had approached the 400 mark, I decided to purchase the Sony CDP-CX455 unit, so that I could randomly listen to my entire collection, without constantly changing CD's. After reading some of the reviews on Amazon, I was reluctant to purchase this unit. Unable to find another unit that would accomodate 400 CD's, I decided to take a chance and went ahead with the purchase. Big mistake! After spending hours loading the CD's into the system and setting it to play on random(shuffle), I soon discovered that several of my CD's were skipping. I am meticulous with the handling of my CD's, so I know that the problem was not caused by my mishandling of them. I removed the CD's that were skipping, hoping that this was an isolated incident. The next day, I turned on the unit and again set it to play songs randomly. Once again, some of the CD's started skipping. When I removed them from the unit, I noticed that there...Read more

Ignore whatever criticisms you may encounter regarding the extremely rare "lemons" that inevitably exist with ANY mechanical/electronic product line from ANY manufacturer. [And notice that many other owners of this changer are as fully pleased with their units as I am with mine.] I've owned Sony 400-CD changers since January 2001, and none of my CDs have become unplayable, plus I've not experienced ANY operational or playback problems whatsoever with any of those changers--all of which amounts to a rather remarkable track record of consistent reliability. I currently own six such changers, including four of these great-sounding, dependable CX-455 models, which I've owned for nearly one year. I couldn't be happier! I regularly spend up to several hours per day playing these changers.

If, like me, you've got a CD collection that's truly huge, then you most likely aren't keen about the notion of ripping (converting) all those discs into (sonically inferior) MP3 files on your...Read more

This machine plays discs just fine, but if you're really into music, this is not the machine for you. Here's some info they don't tell you:--It does NOT hold title info on 800 discs ... When you enter a CD title, that title is assigned to the SLOT. So if you remove a CD from slot 99 put a new CD in slot 99, the player still displays the title of the original CD.--To change play modes (e.g., Continuous to Shuffle or Shuffle 1 to Shuffle All), you must press Stop first. I have owned about 10 CD players in the past (most of them Sonys), and none of them behave like this. You can usually switch without interrupting the current song.--Plan to spend many hours loading and entering CDs (even with a keyboard). It takes 17 seconds to change discs (!) even if you're going from Disc 1 to Disc 2. It's about 24 seconds if the carousel has to move half way around.--It stores artist info, but not genre. You can use the Artist space for genre, but you can't do both. In other...Read more