| 2011.12.17 |
My home features a Niles whole-home audio system. I probably never would have thought to install one,
but I'm really glad the previous homeowners did. The system has several inputs for various components, and so a
few months ago I bought a 300-disc CD carousel unit. Until yesterday the most I could tell you about it was:
it's big; it's bulky; it's black; it's supposed to play 300 discs; it was cheap and it has a PS/2 keyboard
input in the the front of it.
After a little quality time yesterday evening, I can say a few more
things about it: The keyboard port is GENIUS, and the player has a nice grouping feature which allows you to assign
each disc to one of eight groups. Each group can function as a subset of the whole — you can play through,
or select random tracks from, a particular group. From a seasonal perspective, this is awesome, because we can
create a group with just holiday music on it and let the CD player play random tracks from just that group
through Christmas dinner. That's gonna be pretty sweet.
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