Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103335 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: CDPCX450

Features

• 400-CD megachanger with onscreen display that puts disc information on your television
• Artist name search for quick and easy access to the CD you want
• Memo scan displays titles by slot position and searches alphabetically
• PC keyboard input for easy text entry
• MegaStorage control for a second CD changer

Amazon.com Product Description
If you're serious about music and no longer have room for all of your CDs, the Sony CDP-CX450 400-CD Mega Changer may be just the ticket. It holds 400 CDs and also has the ability to connect a second CD changer that can be controlled through the CDP-CX450's controls and remote. This Mega Control feature can eliminate lag time between tracks with Sony's No Delay Play and X-Fade Play functions. No Delay Play means that when switching between CD players, the other player starts play without a break in sound as the current player ends play. Take advantage of X-Fade Play to change tracks between players at specified intervals (of 30, 60, or 90 seconds). As one player stops and the other starts play, the sound is mixed seamlessly from one player to the other with a fade out and a fade in.

The CDP-CX450 recognizes CD Text discs as you add them into the player, and will store the CD title and artist name, allowing you to search by artist and CD later. For non-CD-Text discs there is a keyboard entry option, so you can quickly and easily enter disc information via an externally connected keyboard (not included). A video output connects to your TV, so you can search through CD information in text on your television screen (in addition to the backlit LCD display on the changer), making it even easier to find and play your favorite discs.

The Easy Play feature lets you instantly play a disc you just added to the changer with the touch of just one button. Other features include shuffle, repeat, and track programming for up to 32 steps (tracks or discs). You can create custom files using the keyboard input, or create up to eight group files to sort your CD collection into categories, which you can then use to play by genre. A Hit List feature will store up to 32 of your favorite tracks, so you can always listen to your most frequently played tracks easily.

What's in the Box
CD changer, remote control, 2 AA batteries, 1 audio cable, 1 video cable, user's manual, and warranty information.

Customer Reviews

Toss those jewel cases!
This is a great piece of equipment--rid yourself of those annoying jewel cases forever! The ability to organize discs by title and artist is excellent. The ability to connect multiple players in series means that you'll always have space for more CDs. Initial set-up is easy--getting all of your disc information input is difficult is hard, but worth it. I agree with the other reviewer that wishes for a track listing feature--but who would spend the days required to type that all in anyway? Incidentally, on discs encoded with CDText (mostly recent titles from the Sony music label), the title and track text listings are read automatically.

My strong recommendation is to go for this more expensive model CDPCX450--as opposed to the CDPCX400. The 400 and 450 are identical except that the 450 comes with a remote control that features an LCD screen on which you can see all of the information about the discs in your player. The 400 comes with a plain vanilla remote control--the added user-friendliness of the 450's remote control is definitely worth the extra money! In my opinion, the only reason to buy the 400 is if you connect it in series with the 450, or if it is used purely for background music--where the user is not worried specifically about what is playing, rather is interested in playing a wide variety of discs at random.

Quite good but...
It would be nice to have track listing as well. There is also a pretty severe limitation on the amount of text you can put into the disc name. Many discs, the name of the artist and the title of the CD will not fit. Otherwise, it's an excellent unit.

It is almost all it claims to be
I love this changer. It holds 400 CDs and can be linked to all of Sony's CDX line to gang multiple changers. A great selection of group and artist features.
In shuffle mode, the change over between tracks seems to take a bit longer than seems right, but if you gang two units Sony claims the crossover can be cut to zero. I'm looking forward to testing that out. :) The remote is great once everything is programed into the main unit and that's the only real problem. This baby comes with a keyboard interface and that certainly makes data entry easier than loading 400 cd titles in using the jog wheel. Unfortunately, the keyboard does not entirely replace the front panel controls. In order to enter artist information, group information and change modes, the front panel is still needed. The keyboard is limited to text input only.
A small gripe, but I think Sony could have come up with a way to use the keyboard for all the functions, not just text entry. I hope that by the time I need a second unit they will have addressed this nit-picky item and I'll have to call this unit perfect.