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COMPACT DISC PLAYERS
Since their introduction in 1983, compact discs have become the
best recording medium for music. Unlike record albums and tapes,
compact discs cannot be damaged with normal use.
A standard- sized compact disc is less than five inches in
diameter and is capable of sotring up to 75 minutes of
digitially encoded music. Each disc contains billions of
tiny pits that represent musical signals with numeric codes.
A beam of laser light reads these pits and converts the
codes into musical signals.
Compact disc players have a wide variety of
features. The following list will help you choose exactly what you
would like in a compact disc player.
- Wireless remote control allows you
to program, play, pause, skip, repeat, and perform a variety
of other function without being at the compact disc player.
- High speed transport (or high speed
linear motor) allows you to access any track on the disc in
less than a second.
- Programmable music scan allows you to
automatically listen to the first few seconds of every
track, one right after the other.
- Direct access allows you to have
immediate access to any particular tracks without having to
forward or reverse through other tracks.
- Auto cue allows you to place the laser
pickup in a standby mode at the beginning of each track.
- Full- function LCD display provides a
clear indication of disc playback information, such as the
track number, elapsed playing time, remaining disc time,
etc.
- Shuffle (or random) play lets the compact
disc player randomly play the tracks of the disc in a new
order each time.
- Repeat mode allows you to replay
your favorites over and over, from a single song to the
entire disc.
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