Yamaha CD-S303BL CD Player

Perfect quality and sound.

Good product. Two annoying things: the paint which has a rough touch = not easy to clean and the CD loading which takes ages.

I bought this Yamaha CD-S303 together with a Rn600a receiver. The CD player features an on board D/A convertor with optical output as well as a conventional RCA analogue output. The player looks/feels well constructed, although, the remote supplied is grey, no doubt to cover both the silver and black versions. Playback quality is good and the draw etc. works smoothly. Mine came with 1.61 version firmware and I updated to 1.63 with some difficulty due to the stick I was using. What learnt in the process is that although this player has a front USB socket which also plays MP3s etc. it's very fussy about the USB sticks it will accept both in terms of size and capacity. I could only get it to work with a 16GB stick and it's limited to less than "500 folders" but I think they mean files based on my experience. This conservatism about USB size is mirrored by other brands too - I recently bought a desktop radio/CD player from another major brand it was limited to 32GB sticks. If your preferred source of music is USB then this might not be the player for you but in all other respects it's fine.

Ottimo prodotto

Sonorité froide. Utilisé sur ampli à lampes et Cabasse A fuir pour le classique; peut-être mieux pour le jazz Je ne le recommande pas

I got this CD player to replace a 6CD carousel player that started to have problems reading several discs. I am using the player connected to a Yamaha RX-A1060 receiver via digital optical connection and output through a pair of Klipsch RP-280 speakers. I am using the DAC of my receiver and can’t say how the sound would be using the player’s DAC and the analog connection, but the sound of the system is great running a digital signal from the CD player to my receiver. If you prefer to use the DAC in the CD player just use the analog connection to hook it up to your receiver. Really just depends on whether you prefer the sound of the DAC in your receiver or the one in the player. The CD player has a display that shows the track number and elapsed time, and if you push the display button it also cycles through the time remaining in the track, the time remaining on the disc, the name of the track, the name of the artist, and the name of the album if the CD includes that information. Only a few of the CD’s that I own have the title of the track, album, and artist, but I can verify that the player will display the information if it is present. The remote is fine, and the commonly used buttons are easy to locate. I’ve had this player for about three months at the time of this review, and it plays everything flawlessly. I have listened to a lot of different CDs on the player during that time, covering a wide range of music. When I first got it I tested the player using some discs that I knew previous CD players had difficulty reading, and initially, this player also had difficulty and would not play some of them. I checked the firmware (press and hold A/B on the remote and the display shows the current firmware version) and it was an older iteration. When I updated the firmware to the current version (1.53 at the time I got the player) it was able to play the same discs that had problems before the firmware update, and it has played everything flawlessly since, including commercially manufactured CDs, CDs that I burned on my laptop, and commercial manufactured on demand CDs, and the CDs that were unplayable on the previous 6CD player. When you do the update, switch the unit to USB mode, be sure that only the firmware update data file is on the USB drive that you are using, and that it is using the correct file format on the drive (fat 16 or fat 32) and no encryption. I used a 3.0 USB drive formatted on my laptop without issue once I only had the firmware update data file on the drive and nothing else. On my first attempt I extracted the update file to a folder on the USB drive and it would not work as the drive must contain only the update data file at the root directory of the drive. If there is anything else on the drive besides the update file it will not work. Note that when you connect the USB drive to the player the display reads UNSUPPORTED. This is not a problem, and once you push and hold the pause button on the remote for a few seconds it switches to UPGRADE (if I remember correctly) and after 20 seconds or so the machine reboots and when it restarts it says UNSUPPORTED on the display again. When you switch back to CD mode and check the firmware it should be updated. Turn off the player and remove the USB drive and it’s done. There is a guide on Yamaha’s website with instructions. If you are looking for a good quality, reliable CD player this is a good choice.

Un peu cher mais bonne qualité et bon service de Yamaha

Cuento con una colección considerable de CD's , la cual continúa creciendo. Me gusta usar el formato físico y los primeros CD's que adquirí hace más de 35 años aún suenan exactamente igual que cuando los adquirí. Algo que no puedo decir de la época en que utilizaba discos de vinilo, lo cuales lamentablemente se llenan de ruidos al poco tiempo de uso. Ha habido una notable escasez de equipos reproductores de CD de precio moderado en los últimos años, viendo que las empresas de electrónica han estado fabricando sólo equipos de gama muy alta y fue una grata sorpresa encontrar este equipo en oferta a un excelente precio. Leí algunas reseñas y decidí adquirirlo. Todo funciona muy bien, un equipo de lectura ágil y sonido nítido, con un desempeño superior a lo que uno esperaría por el precio.