On 16 Aug 2004 23:06:45 GMT, "normanstrong"
wrote:

I recently purchased a cheap CD player in order to see what you can
get for $10. ....

I've been amazed by precision electro-mechanical goods
prices I've seen for quite a while. 200 GB disks for $200 ?
But you may want to run an objective test or two on that CD
player before judging it to work well. I bought a very cheap
portable CD player a while back and played a test disk
on it, one with a series of tones. It mangled everything above
6K or so (I don't remember the exact starting point).