Oakcastle CD100 Rechargeable Bluetooth CD Player | 12hr Portable Playtime | In Car Compatible Personal CD Player | Headphones Included, AUX Output, Anti-Skip Protection, Custom EQ, CD Walkman (Black)

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Close the disc door gently. Ensure that the disc door is completely closed, otherwise the player will not read the disc.

time. The alarm will now snooze for the selected minutes. Cancel snooze by pressing the Power dial or Power button on the remote control. Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce heat. But there are differences under the hood. The Oakington has a self-contained power supply, the DAB500 is powered by a 12V 2A wall wart. There are no power output specifications, but we can make a reasonable assumption. 12 volts at 2A gives us 24W, so assuming a worst-case system power draw of about 5 to 7W in CD mode, and 1 or 2 watts of reserve headroom, we get a power output of 6 to 9.5W per channel. That is more than sufficient with small, efficient single-driver loudspeakers. It is built with proper speaker enclosures which are reflex ported at the rear and sounds every bit as powerful and loud as the Oakington, if not a little better.

The Technics SA-C600 is an elegant all-in-one system with extensive streaming and connectivity (even an MM phono stage) that you just have to add speakers to – and it also has a talented CD player. Like the Oakcastle HiFi200, the DAB500 implements a sleep timer and alarm. Not just one, but two – which can be set by regularity (once, weekends or weekdays), and to sound a buzzer or wake to the radio. You can’t wake to a CD, Bluetooth or the AUX input. You do get a snooze function though, and a sleep timer which will put the radio into standby after 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes. Language Select your chosen default language for the radio from the list with the Navigation/OK dial or the OK button on the remote. Specs are thin on the ground. The claimed “Powerful stereo sound 60W Speakers” is nonsense – even at peak music power the system wouldn’t come anywhere close. RMS output power is roughly 5 watts per channel. The power comes from a pair of LTK5112 amplifier chips, which are a Chinese clone of the Texas Instruments TAS512 but with less output power and almost certainly without the onboard speaker, overload and thermal protection. The chip can produce 32W RMS in its BTL configuration at 15V, but without delving into the circuit it’s hard to say whether the components inside this system would be suited to raising the voltage of the power supply. Set Timezone: Select your time zone to set the correct time on the unit. Daylight savings: Select whether you would like daylight savings for automatic adjustment between summer time and winter time switched on or off.

Refer all servicing to qualified service personnel. Servicing is required when the apparatus has been damaged in a way, such as power-supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has been exposed to the rain or moisture, does not operate normally or has been dropped.

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The apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or splashing and no objects filled with liquid, such as vases, shall be places on the apparatus.

The loudspeakers are reflex-ported particleboard enclosures, each containing a driver with a cone diameter of approximately 4 inches (100 mm). They measure 123 x 130 x 172mm. The cloth grilles are not removable and the cables are fixed, terminating in a 2.54mm PCB connector at the end that connects to the system. They’re as basic as it gets, and are of about the same quality you’d have gotten with a cheap micro system in the mid ‘2000s.We like the tactility of the swivelling transparent CD cover on the top; it’s made of toughened acrylic and feels good to use. The SA-C600 proves an admirably consistent performer across the board, producing musically compelling results with CDs as well as high-res files across our network.