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CDP with minimal controls on front panel

Greeting everyone and Happy Holidays.

For this Holiday season I have treated myself to a Pioneer Elite PD-D9 J SACD/CD Player. One thing I noticed about it is that on the front panel it is very minimalist IMO. There is only a power, play/stop and eject button. I guess I'm just surprised by this because I've really only seen something like this on REALLY inexpensive players. Normally lots of CDPs from other manufacturers have track control buttons to advance or go back to the previous tracks or a pause button. I guess I better not loose the remote. ;)

PD-D9

Has anyone encountered this before where a CDP or any type of player they have doesn't have many control buttons? Is there any kind of sonic benefit to this kind of design or this just normally done for aesthetics?

I tried looking in the archives but I couldn't find a thread like this pertaining to CDPs.

Thanks in advance.
jedinite24

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The Lector 0.6t twin tube cd player has only two buttons.
One for open/close and one for play. That's it. There is one power switch. Everything else you need is found on the remote, so yes you need to keep track of the remote or program a universal to accept the most common commands.
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