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I have just started playing with yammys new Hardrive/CD/CDR/jukebox thingy. It has a removeble 80gb hard drive and can hold 120 hours of uncompressed music. I have to say it sounds spot on. It is easy and quick to use. 10x copying. It should be a winner.

All the best,

The 42%er.

I read the review of this today and it looks an absolute blinder, I have to say.

Andrew : What HiFi reckons this doesn`t have the normal Yammy soft sound - what`s your impression of it ?

Hows it going?

My first impretions of this beauty were that it was a bit to clean. But after putting it in the main dem room with the Musical Fidelity A3.2 and Quad 11L speakers slaping some depeche mode, Smiths, Henry Rollins, Kristen Hersh, Orbital I found it open, musical, a bit clean yes but for the price and what it can do, no complaints. Making duplicat copys is easy and fast. One down side is the labeling. Either jog and push front panel or txt msg syle on the remote "abc" "def" and so on. You can aparently connect via a RS232 to your pc, go on line and label there. But do I want to be unpluging it from my Hi-Fi every time I want to do some labeling? It is a bit of a beast. It should of had a keyboard port like the Sony MD decks.

It has its advantages over the Imerge, it is a cd player, cdr deck, removerble hard drive so you can archive and it is a dam sight cheaper.

Against. The remote is nasty, It is only avalible in black, could be to clean for a true audiophile (but then we would all be using wax cylinders if they had there way)

I am not much good at westy style reviews so I will put it like this. I`am having one.

All the best,

The 42%er.

Quote "You can aparently connect via a RS232 to your pc, go on line and label there. But do I want to be unpluging it from my Hi-Fi every time I want to do some labeling? "

According to your statment - What else are you plugging into the Serail Port ( RS232 ) !! Thats like saying you have to plug in your speakers each time you want to listen to some music !

Just run a serial cable to your computer ! AND LEAVE IT PLUGGED IN

Apart from that yup its "box" with nice functions - shame its such a huge nasty looking box ... ;-(

G

GSM. Fair point, but my pc is upstairs in the box room. My Hi-Fi is seperate down stairs and on the other side of the house. Do I want to run a cable round the house? A keyboard port would be a lot easyer. What if I did not have a pc?

Yes if you have a pc and you can connect at all times. No probs. But if not a keyboard port would make life easy. Which is what this product is all about. Maybe i am been to critical but as a retailer I have to find costomers objections and the solutions to those objections.

Still a great bit of kit though.

All the best,

The 42%er.