The Yamaha replaces a 25-year old Sony CD changer that was starting to have trouble reading some discs. Although we have a media server with all of our cd's installed, my wife sometimes likes to just load up the changer and plug in her headphones.
Can read both standard cd's as well as MP3 cd's; which is a big plus since some new music is only available via MP3 download
Buttons on the remote and changer are a little small and the display is not as easy to read as the Sony that it replaced