On Jan 31, 9:53 pm, Unquestionably Confused <puzzl...@ameritech.net>
wrote:
> D.K. wrote:
>
> > Yes, this is true, if you turn it off, it will pick up where you left
> > off when you turn it back on. But this is NOT the same as Pause. First
> > of all, it is more wear and tear on the system than pause would be,
> > and 2nd, it takes about 10 seconds longer than pause would take.
>
> Well, perhaps it doesn't meet your standards, maybe it doesn't meet a
> LOT of folks' standards. I have to ask though, was it advertised as
> having a pause? It seems to me that were that such an important matter
> to you, you'd have done your due diligence and checked it out. Again,
> that's not a shot at you necessarily but you're obviously so worked up
> about it that I feel my comment is valid. Shame on you, not on Honda.
> It would be shame on Honda if you stood here telling one and all that
> "I'll never buy a Honda since the boobs don't bother to put a pause
> control on their CD player!"
>
> > Maybe this sounds like nit-picking, and it is, but nevertheless it is
> > a crappy design for a cd player. And that heat issue is something that
> > is NOT nit-picking.
>
> Maybe, maybe not. The CD's in my home stereo component system get hot.
> The CD's in my Corvette's and Buick Park Avenue's CD players get hot.
> The CD's in my mini-component stereo at the office get hot. The CD's
> in my wife's Bose system at home get hot. Lastly, I have six CD's in
> the changer in my '06 Accord that have been in there for at least six
> months. Happens that I played a couple today while on a trip. No sign
> of a problem. Neither has there been any sign of a problem with CD's in
> any of the other players - static or mobile - mentioned above.
>
> As a matter of fact, I think the ONLY CD player I've ever owned that
> DIDN'T significantly raise the temperature of the CD's therein was a
> Sony Discman I once owned - of course, that doesn't count the times it
> was left in the sun out by the pool<g>

I have owned many cd players in my day. I'm not talking about "hot",
I'm talking about OVERLY hot, hot that will probably end up damaging
the cd's and/or cd player.

I think the heat is from the heater, and somehow they have not
protected the cd player sufficiently from the heater.