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Yamaha CD-S300-RK Rackmount CD Player, USB Port, MP3, WMA Playback, DAC Conversion

Designed to Deliver Enjoyable Sound Quality Inheriting many of the sound quality features of the S2000/S1000 Series components, the CD-S300 CD player delivers sound that will satisfy devoted music fans. In addition to CDs, it also provides high quali...

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Sound

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Quality

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Cd

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Product

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Build

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Wall

(2 reviews)
Price

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Area

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Unit

(10 reviews)
Yamaha

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Reviews around player (5.00 of 5)

  • This is a very good sounding CD player, comparable to audiophile units costing many times more money
  • This an excellent sounding player with a superb feature set for a very reasonable price.
  • It performed as expected until I plugged in a portable MP3 player and in said "Not Supported".
  • So aside from having to convert my WAV files to MP3/320/VBR or AAC format, this is a good player for the price.
  • Read remaining 7 reviews for player

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Reviews around sound (5.00 of 5)

  • This is a very good sounding CD player, comparable to audiophile units costing many times more money
  • The CD produce clean sound from classical music and vocal songs
  • This an excellent sounding player with a superb feature set for a very reasonable price.
  • Read remaining 6 reviews for sound

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Reviews around quality (5.00 of 5)

  • Sound quality is good for our situation, as it is only used to play an occasional music track to back up a singer
  • I am very well pleased with this deck and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good quality CD deck.
  • It is difficult to find a good, high quality and rugged electronic device at a reasonable price
  • Read remaining 6 reviews for quality

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Reviews around service (5.00 of 5)

  • Excellent customer service from the seller
  • I applaud the excellent service from Pro Acoustics

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Reviews around cd (5.00 of 5)

  • This is a very good sounding CD player, comparable to audiophile units costing many times more money
  • I am very well pleased with this deck and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good quality CD deck.

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Reviews around product (5.00 of 5)

  • I would recommend this product.
  • Excellent product.

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Reviews around build (5.00 of 5)

  • This CD deck is extremely well built and has features that are usually found on studio equipment
  • This Yamaha is well built, intuitive to install and good looking

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Reviews around wall (5.00 of 5)

  • It is sound and light isolated, and the floor, as well as excessively "Bright" wall areas, are carpeted.
  • It is sound and light isolated, and the floor, as well as excessively "Bright" wall areas, are carpeted.

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Reviews around price (5.00 of 5)

  • This an excellent sounding player with a superb feature set for a very reasonable price.
  • It is difficult to find a good, high quality and rugged electronic device at a reasonable price

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Reviews around advertise (5.00 of 5)

  • iPod interface works exactly as advertised on my 160 GB classic (the original - now maybe 6 or 7 years old).

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Reviews around area (5.00 of 5)

  • It is sound and light isolated, and the floor, as well as excessively "Bright" wall areas, are carpeted.

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Reviews around unit (3.91 of 5)

  • This would make sense that the warmer unit is just a little muddy and the clearer unit to bright
  • Note: unit is not convertible back to a non-rack mount version unless you can fabricate new sides.
  • Basically both units were nice but this Yamaha please me far more for its purpose - listening to music
  • BTW, my old unit did the power-on function quite nicely, thank you
  • This would make sense that the warmer unit is just a little muddy and the clearer unit to bright
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Reviews around yamaha (3.75 of 5)

  • Sorry, Yamaha.
  • This Yamaha is well built, intuitive to install and good looking
  • With or without the display on, the Yamaha is dead silent (a good thing)
  • For me the warmer more analog and natural sound wins .. and the Yamaha was $100 less too.

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Reviews around mode (3.61 of 5)

  • Not sure how much longer this will be available but the "Pure Direct" mode is not a gimmick
  • Not sure how much longer this will be available but the "Pure Direct" mode is not a gimmick
  • Improvement using that mode on a quality playback system is subtle but apparent during critical listening
  • Switching between the "Pure Direct" mode (display off), and normal, display on mode, yields an almost unnoticeable difference: with the "Pure Direct" engaged, there was a barely perceptible increase in volume (measured at 0.8db)

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Reviews around button (1.00 of 5)

  • If you push the button to open the drawer when (or before or at the same time as) you power it on, it ignores the button, and goes through it's thing trying to load the CD.
  • Then, it totally ignores all the buttons until it loads a CD -or- checks to see if a CD is loaded.

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More about Yamaha CD-S300-RK Rackmount CD Player, USB Port, MP3, WMA Playback, DAC Conversion

  • Designed to Deliver Enjoyable Sound Quality Inheriting many of the sound quality features of the S2000/S1000 Series components, the CD-S300 CD player delivers sound that will satisfy devoted music fans
  • In addition to CDs, it also provides high quality play of music files stored on digital audio players like iPod® or USB memory devices via a USB port on the front panel
  • Pure Direct The CD-S300 offers Pure Direct, which is the same popular feature included in Yamaha amplifiers and receivers
  • By pressing the button on the front panel or on the remote control, it shuts down the digital audio output and turns off the display
  • This achieves the lowest possible noise interference and, therefore, the highest sound quality of the analog audio output
  • Extremely Sophisticated Circuitry and Layout Yamaha technicians devoted a great deal of time and effort to designing the overall interior layout of parts and circuit boards, a factor that significantly affects sound quality
  • As a result, the power supplies for the motor drive, display and USB sections, as well as the digital, and analog sections are individually isolated, eliminating electromagnetic interference among them
  • To achieve ideal weight balance for stable performance, the drive mechanism is located in the center of the unit.