Yamaha CD-C600BL 5-Disc CD Changer (Black)

by Yamaha

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 16 x 17.1 x 4.6 inches ; 13.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 18 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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• ASIN: B002NKM4C2
• Item model number: CD-C600BL
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,938 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #7 in Electronics > Home Audio & Theater > Stereo Components > CD Players & Recorders > CD Players

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Yamaha CD-C600 Offers Continuous Music Enjoyment

Five-disc CD Changer with PlayXchange for continuous music enjoyment. Other attractive features include iPod and USB compatibility, MP3 and WMA compatibility and Pure Direct.

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High Quality Sound

Designed to Deliver Satisfying Sound Quality
This CD changer delivers sound that will satisfy devoted music fans. In addition to CDs, it also provides high quality play of music files stored on digital audio players like iPod or USB memory devices via a USB port on the front panel.

Pure Direct
The CD-C600 provides the same Pure Direct feature that is a popular feature of Yamaha amplifiers and receivers. Pressing the button on the front panel or on the remote control shuts down the digital audio output and turns off the display. This achieves the lowest possible noise interface and thus highest sound quality of the analog audio output.

Extremely Sophisticated Circuitry and Layout
Yamaha technicians devoted a great deal of time and effort to designing the overall interior layout of parts and circuit boards, a factor that significantly affects sound quality. As a result, the power supplies for the motor drive, display and USB sections, as well as the digital, and analog sections are individually isolated, eliminating electromagnetic interference among them. To achieve ideal weight balance for stable performance, the drive mechanism is located in the center of the unit.

Short Signal Paths
The internal layout of parts and circuit boards is highly logical and symmetrical, with signal paths on each board as short as possible, and signal paths between sections straight and short (not easy to achieve) to minimize the chance of signal loss or interference.

High Performance D/A Conversion System
The high performance D/A conversion system, which takes full advantage of digital technology developed by Yamaha over a period of many years, ensures excellent conversion precision, S/N ratio and dynamic range. All other components, including the Burr Brown 192kHz/24-bit DAC that has a firmly established reputation, the acoustic capacitor and the symmetrically laid out audio board, were carefully selected based on extensive listening tests to provide natural and musically rich playback.

Laser Pickup Floating Mechanism
The laser pickup is isolated on a floating mechanism so its delicate operation cannot be affected by vibration.

Intelligent Digital Servo
Conventional tracking servo circuitry cannot completely overcome errors caused by disc defects, warped discs, dust and so on. This system uses a dependable DSP (Digital Signal Processor) exclusive for CDs to monitor the signal, adjusting pickup tracking and focus, as well as spindle motor speed, to compensate for any problems.

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Advanced Features

Enjoy Uninterrupted Music

With PlayXchange, change discs while the current one plays

This changer is a 5-disc carousel type, giving you benefits of extended playing time and direct selection from any of five discs. And with PlayXchange, you can change up to four discs while the fifth continues to play. You don't have to interrupt the music to change a disc and you're not limited to changing only one disc at a time. What's more, when you press the open/close button, the tray opens all the way, allowing you to change all 5 discs at once.

Enjoy Your MP3 and WMA Music
The USB port on the front panel gives you an easy way to enjoy high quality sound from MP3 or WMA digital files stored on USB players and memory devices, as well as on memory cards mounted on USB card readers. You can also play files recorded on CD-R/RW discs.

Enjoy iPod Music at Maximum Quality
Using a USB cable, you can plug your iPod into the USB port to enjoy your music library via your audio system. The digital signal is sent to the CD player with no degradation and then converted to analog by the high performance DAC, and transmitted to the amplifier by the high quality audio circuitry, so you hear your music with the best possible sound. You can use the remote control to command the play, pause, skip and forward/backward functions, and song, artist and album names will be displayed. Compatible iPods are the iPod classic (including 120GB classic), iPod nano (2nd Gen., 3rd Gen., 4th Gen) and iPod touch (1st Gen. and 2nd Gen.). When the power is on and USB mode is selected, the iPod charges automatically.

RS-232C Interface and IR In/Out
The CD-C600 is equipped with an RS-232C terminal and remote control in/out terminals for custom installed systems. When it is connected to the other components, you can operate it via the system remote control.

3-Mode CD Text Display
Get the information about the CD currently playing right on the CD player's display. The 3-mode CD Text display show's the CD's title, the artist's name and the title of the track.

Disc (Intro) Scan
Automatically plays the first 10 seconds of each disc so you can decide which to listen to first.

Programmable Play
It's extremely easy to program the tracks you want to hear in any order. You can clear the program at any time with a single touch.

Random Play (Single/All) with Disc-to-Disc Random Play
Use Random Play to mix selections from various discs or to hear old CDs in a new way.

Repeat Play (Disc Mode: Single/All; Repeat Mode: Single/Full)
To hear your favorite songs again or just for background music, this versatile changer gives you a variety of options.

Other Notable Features

• 10-key direct track and 5-disc direct access
• 3-mode time display
• 4 illumination levels
• Last track resume
• Auto ready mode
• Play mode memory
• Auto standby

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What's in the Box?

• The Yamaha CD-C600 5-Disc CD Changer
• Remote Control Transmitter
• Batteries (AA, R6, UM-3) x2
• Power Cable

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Technical Specifications

• Frequency Response: 2 Hz-20 kHz +/- 0.5 dB
• Harmonic Distortion + Noise: 0.003%
• Signal to Noise Ratio: 105 dB
• Dynamic Range: 96 dB
• Output Level: 2 +/- 0.3 V
• Dimensions (WxHxD): 17-1/8" x 4-5/8" x 16"
• Weight: 13.7 lbs

Product Description

Yamaha CD-C600BL 5-Disc CD Changer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Yamaha CD-600 Bests Denon's DCM-390 performance!!!, May 31, 2010

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S. WATSON (Fort Wayne, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha CD-C600BL 5-Disc CD Changer (Black) (Electronics)

Bought the Yamaha CD-C600BL as a replacement for currently offered Denon DCM-390 5-Disc changer which I listened to everyday for 2 years. The Denon, while excellent, is bested by this Yamaha in most ways. However, the differences in sound quality between these two players, while discernible, are less than 5% according to my ears. That being said, I would characterize the Yamaha as being fuller in the bass and smoother in the vocals and highs than the Denon. Additionally I would say the Yamaha has slightly better timing and cohesion of sound staging. The only thing the Denon has going for it that the Yamaha doesn't is the HDCD decoder which isn't a big deal because few discs are recorded with the HDCD embedded code that allows a 20-bit resolution playback.

My office stereo system is a pair of Wharfedale Diamond Standmount speakers, with a Yamaha RX-797 100watt receiver with high quality interconnects & bi-wired speaker cable. I play jazz, new age, pop, vocals, etc all day long as I am a massage therapist. When you listen to music all day long as I do, that 5% difference in sound quality makes a big difference in taking the edge off listening fatigue--I really appreciate it.

Functionally, the Yamaha's changing mechanism is faster, quieter, and more graceful changing discs than the Denon. I disagree with one reviewer who thinks this player is slow. All the 5 Disc changers are sloooooow. This one is relatively fast in my estimation. The Yamaha remote could be a little better: The disc skip and the track skip are quite a distance apart and the labeling is small for my 46 yr. old eyes.

The really, really, big deal about this Yamaha is the front panel MP3 player USB port! This was the feature that sold me. I can load 300 cd's converted to MP3's loss-less format onto my iPod Nano (16Gigabytes) and enjoy a cd quality playback without ever having to change a single cd in the changer. The Yamaha takes the data from the Ipod without using the Ipod's inferior DAC/amp/preamp circuits and uses instead the cd player's superior DAC (digital-to-analog converter)for playback. The Ipod is fully a high fidelity component in my system! My how times are a changing.

This piece of equipment is a delight at the Amazon price. I got it sent overnight for a mere $4 shipping upgrade with Amazon's free 30-day trial offer: Free second-day-air-for-a-year-program for $70 per year. Heck, the clerk at FedX told me it would have cost approximately $100 to overnight this shipment. I got my money's worth in the first shipment so now it's free 2nd day air for a whole year anytime I order through Amazon. What a bargain! I'm thrilled all the way around. I highly recommended this Yamaha CD player and Amazon. Thank you Yamaha!

46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every Bit Much, Much Better Than Good Enough, June 21, 2010

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PrettyStuzz (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Yamaha CD-C600BL 5-Disc CD Changer (Black) (Electronics)

The only reasons I wanted and bought the Yamaha CD-C600BL 5-Disc CD Changer was for its 24-bit digital/analog conversion rate and the 5-disc capacity. I never had better than 16-bit D/A cd or dvd players; I read reviews here that convinced me to get a 24-bit D/A player. I have two new Denon AV receivers and older NAD stereo equipment, plus high-quality loudspeakers; so I was eligible to notice very superior sound.

I can't compare the Yamaha CD-C600BL 5-Disc CD Changer to any other 24-bit cd player because I haven't listened to others with my systems.

The package includes a stereo RCA phono cable, a remote w/batteries, and a bare-bones user manual that covers everything in direct and simple language. The connections include one left/right RCA phono plug output, one optical (Toslink) digital output, and a RS-232C terminal. However, the optical cable isn't included with the package (nor is a serial cable for the RS-232C connection).

I've connected the player via the ('analog') RCA cables and also using the optical Toslink cable. I notice no audible difference between the connections. Why should there be any difference, anyhow? The digital information on the cd has been converted to analog by the player so that the preamplifier and amplifier can process it, and then send it in analog form to the 'analog' speakers.

If the cd's digital signal is destined to be input to another digital processor or device, the optical digital cable would be the best way to make that connection (well, there's also a RS-232C terminal, but it's not as pure as the optical handshake).

In essence, connecting with the RCA plugs makes a perfect connection, just as perfect as the 'digital' optical cable makes.

The sound is obviously superior to 16-bit D/A players. Some meaningful sounds that weren't audible are now audible; previously audible sounds no longer have any masking.

There must be one of those laws that applies here, but I don't know of it: For each improvement in quality - more watts in a high-end amplifier, minimal harmonic distortion, full frequency response, precise loudspeakers, 24-bit digital-to-analog conversion rate - you can listen to the full sound at a lower volume. It saves your hearing in the long run.

Sure, the changer makes its mechanical noise when it rotates each disc into the laser reader. Vinyl record changers made more noise than that when the needle reached the label and jerked off the record (haha), when the tone arm swung out of the way and the next record plopped down - hey, if you couldn't hear anything mechanical, your heart would be in your throat hoping nothing is broken. As I write this, the Yamaha cd changer is only some two feet from my ears, and I happen to like the sound of its carousel.

Be careful, though, when the tray is open as you're adding or removing discs - the tray could close from your inadvertent pressure; it spins and closes fast; you could break a valuable fingernail on a guitar-playing finger.

Being an old hand with home audio gear, I can't say if there's anything difficult about the Yamaha's set-up and use. I'd say it's designed and made to be as plug-and-play as possible. For anyone who has passed the Audio 101 course, the Yamaha CD-C600BL 5-Disc CD Changer is super-intuitive. You know, buttons with arrows this way, arrows that way, and so on (or off). The product's name speaks for itself: Yamaha Natural Sound Compact Disc Changer.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yamaha CD-C600, March 22, 2010

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Mountain Gal (CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yamaha CD-C600BL 5-Disc CD Changer (Black) (Electronics)

We purchased this 5-disc CD player to replace an old 1993 Sony 5-disc CD player that did not play MP3 CDs and was very particular about the CD-R WMA recorded CDs. This unit plays all of them and so far we have had no problem with reading the CD.

An added bonus is the USB port that allows you to connect an I-Pod or even a flash drive, SD card, etc.

One of the features that we like is the memory that stores the last play and resumes playback the next time you turn it on.