Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
That CD payer mimics a cassette player in mechanical concept, and thus is prone to similar failures. If it was so good, why at the time did nearly everybody else made CD players that were either top loaders or used drawer loading?
However it would seem that technology has moved on and wall-mounting vertical CD players are now available, though they only get moderate reviews when it comes to audio playback quality.


Apropos the vertical record player, I give you the Mitsubishi LT-15V:


A colleague at work had one, though it might not have been a Mitsubishi. I never saw it.

There was also the Technics LT-SV, obviously based on the Mitsubishi:


and the Mitsubishi LT-SV:

I don't think I could live with either of those. I mean, gravity is both free and reliably consistent, so why would you do away with it?

Meanwhile, there's this. Ticks most of Macca's boxes (lots of buttons, orange display). Shame it's not black.