Multiple CD Changer

[iamfishman]

I know I can always turn to my helpful friends on TMD when I need help finding something on the net.  Here is my situation.

I am looking for the cd changer that can hold the absolute maximum number of cds.  So far I have found many, many 400 cd changers, but nothing that for more than 400 cds...can anyone help me...what is the most cds a system can change, and where do I order it?

Thanks,
Ray

[Zherbus]

Car or home?

[Ric_Flair]

Try Escient at  www.escient.com.  The problem is that most of the megachangers have been replaced by HUGE hard drives.  One store in Beantown sells daisy chained 1 TB drives as changers, with chains up to 10 TBs.  That is a HUGE number of CDs.  The "real disc" changers are a thing of the past and will probably be gone totally in a year or two.

[jpmeyer]

ONE TERRABYTE OF MUSIC?!?!?!?  I have only twice in my life seen people on DC++ hubs with over a terrabyte of ANYTHING.  Even at very high quality that is about TEN THOUSAND CDs.

[Ric_Flair]

Goodwin's High End Audio will custom built you a system using Escient controls and Lacie TB drives and the control can daisy chain up to 10 drives, each 1 TB.  In Boston there are a quite a few people that can use that.  I used to work for an installer, before law school, and Joey Hamilton, Mo Vaughan, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Malcolm Lowe all bought stuff through the store I worked at.  They all had tons of music, especially Lowe, who is the concertmaster for the BSO.  I think he had like 10-20,000 CDs.  It is his job I guess.  Still that is ONE drive, at totally uncompressed ratios.  Boggle the mind even more: Meridian has a lossless packing scheme that can compress a CD at a ration of 2:1 without sonic degradation.  That is a TON of music on those drives.