What's the "worst" cdp for the money?

Elizabeth, how do you find the time to listen to your CDP for 100,000 hours? 100,000 hours for a CDP is great in my book. My last Sony lasted 40 hours before it started to develop problems. Amusing reading, your post:)

Incredible, Elizabeth! If you listened for 10 hours every day, that would equate to about 27.37 years of play. That's pretty good reliability. Sure you weren't counting in dog hours?

Elizabeth -
Sounds like you've got alittle Black Widow thing going on...."(I enjoy destroying things that gave me pleasure...)"

Kidding! Enjoyed your post though.

:-)

Sorry, I have a bad,bad habit of exaggerating numbers.
(Some internal childhood thing mo doubt)
I DID play that 89ES everyday for about 16 hours a day for ten years.
I start in the morning @ 7:00 AM and left it on for the pets all day, then continued it myself until around 10:00 pm.
On weekends all day. I really hardly watch TV, and never go do anything.
Then it really did not die, just the data wire from the sled to the board got messed up. If I jiggled the wire it would play. Then I tried really messing with the wire, and it no longer played so I hammered it into a mass of rubble.

Still very impressive service.

You know, the bludgeoning thing sounds like it would be really good for your mental health. If I didn't have so much money tied up in my toys, I'd probably take great pleasure in beating the bejesus out of at least a couple of 'em ;)