Again I forgot to subscribe for email notification on this thread, otherwise would have replied earlier. It seems very reliable, noisy when changing disks which I like because I know what is going on. One cool feature I noticed was when it gets to about 10-15 seconds within the end of the disc, it starts changing the disc whilst the remainder of the music is still playing from the memory buffer. By the time the track ends it is ready to start playing almost instantly. It does not play MDLP discs, but this is no bother really, I prefer the quality of standard play. Took another 2 hour trip to ballina today and spun some Taj Mahal, The Clean (New Zealand Band), then switched to tape to listen to van morrison bang masters which has some nice out takes and tracks that I had on cd which was lost. 1990's Basf Chrome Extra II recorded in a Nakamichi BX-1. I have never owned audio gear as nice as this alpine, it was worth the 4 year wait just staring at the minidisc changer and not being able to use it due to not having an ai-net capable control deck. The green back light on the controller head unit is also a bonus, much more preferable than the blue/red I constantly see in modern cd/mp3 players.