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First and foremost quality and craftsmanship doesn’t get much better than this. With owning several pieces made by this company, past and present I can personally vouch for this CD Player. Operation is smooth and soundless with only sweet music being audible. The feel of all controls are solid of days past, as they once were. Front panel alone has well layout of features that are useful and very attractive, as were all of their products. Well made and very appreciated indeed!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
The OMS-x Series compact disc players from Nakamichi were the very first audiophile-quality compact disc players made. The first generation Sony, Denon, Technics players were terrible. When Mr. Nakamichi came out with his announcement that the DA converters generated audible garbage between samples, everyone in the audio industry was stunned. When he proved that this was true, panic ensued. His solution was a "clamp" that muted the sound from the DA converter chips 44,200 times a second. This proved to be an ingenious solution. With the DA noise gone, the music could be heard clearly. His OMS series disc players were better than the best of the standard players at the time. The only CD player at the time that made music (other than the Nakamichi CD players) was the Kyocera. Yeah, the Kyoto Ceramics CD player used a Phillips 14-bit DA converter, with a modified Faroudja "line doubling" filter to increase the number of samples by double. It actually sounded cleaner and better than the 16-bit converters from Sony. It wasn't until Proceed (Mark Levinson's cheap brand) came out with the PDP Converter (at $1,000!) that a full 16-Bit DA converter actually sounded good. The PDP was a conglomerate of a Yamaha de-jitter and buffer, with an Accuphase NPC 4 times oversampling digital filter (that increased the samples going to the Burr-Brown DA converter chips to 96,400 samples a second) and NEC car stereo power amplifier chips on the output downgraded to line level voltages. Whew! That was what Mark Levinson's "cheap" DA converter had to do in order to beat the Nakamichi CD players. His new digital designer from Motorola had chased down every good digital chip from every manufacturer from Yamaha to Burr-Brown to NPC to NEC and put all of them into a single box. That was what finally knocked the OMS-x Series from Nakamichi off the top of the mountain; at FIVE TIMES the price!Read full review
Verified purchase: No
I was initially excited to try it out but that disappeared shortly after playing my first cd. First the tray closes immediately after opening. I had to turn it off when it opened just to try it out. It sounded fine until about three quarters into the first song then it stuttered as if stuck. It wouldn’t stop until I advanced it to another song. I tried the tray again but to retrieve my cd I again had to turn it off. After this I reconnected my carousel CD player and it sounded somehow better. I find it hard to believe this player was actually tested. Because the odds of it working fine all the way up to the point where I used it has to be pretty slim. Basically I have a $56 paperweight. It’s not worth my time or expense to return . There is a degree of work involved in removing it from my entertainment center, so there it will stay until I get a brand new player regardless of cost. I took a risk and have to live with it I guess.Read full review
Verified purchase: No
BECAUSE SOUNDS &.OPERATES PERFECTLY!!!.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned