On May 19, 2017 at 02:35, buzz said...
Ernie,
Are you attempting to purchase a new CD player or scrounging around for something hidden away?
Something new, even if the new one happens to be hidden away. I don't discriminate based on how hard it is to locate in the warehouse.
Most of the players that I've used will honor the current state for a track cue -- if the unit is currently paused, it will be paused after seeking the track. However, there was a problem with cuing accuracy on early units.
It's 2017. For me, an "early unit" could have been twenty years ago. But as I said, I'm looking for something new, not even old but NIB.
(Think about seeking up or down and discovering a frame that indicates second zero -- are you at the beginning, end or middle of the second zero frame and should the machine take the time to work this out? And, it's tricky to maintain head position and focus at a point on a spinning disc)
Do I get this complicated and dense? I've never seen PAUSE fail; that is, I've never seen ANY disc machine unable "to maintain head position and focus at a point on a spinning disc."
[further, are we working in a zero or one origin music universe?]
Just one player. One source.
This is why many commercial CD's have a blank second or two at the beginning of each track.
That makes sense. Re the next comment, plus or minus a second is absolutely no problem at all. Maybe even plus or minus two seconds would be okay.
If you want DJ cuing accuracy, you'll probably need a DJ type unit that allows offline cuing. (and probably has a cache of at least a few seconds -- impractical, given the price of RAM and processing power in 1982)
I don't understand how the state of things in 1982 applies to this discussion. Again, I'm looking for a new unit.
