I bought Steely Dans Decade (greatest hits) and a Bryan Adams cd with a Yamaha CDP at Gems Sound in NYC. Brought it home and it sounded awful. I ended up returning it and trading it for a Thorens turntable with a dynavector MC cartridge. A few weeks later I was at sam goodys and they had a philips made in holland cd player that sounded decent playing in the store. I bought that one for around $99 if I remember correctly to play the 10 cd's I bought in the 2 weeks I had the yamaha.