Unobtanium Monitor, Replacement CD Changer
I'm trying to find a suitable replacement to give insurance for a unreasonably nice monitor Miriam was borrowing from work and the thing is made of pure unobtanium and there isn't anything much like it either. It was still listed on the Apple store for something like $800 CAD when we first filled out the list, but it's gone now. From there and everywhere else too.
It was an LG Ultrafine HKMY2VC/A, and we're now waiting to hear from her supervisor about the most important specs to him to match.
https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-22MD4KA-B-4k-uhd-led-monitor
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Long-time readers may recall that I found my late 300-disc CD player on a thrift store shelf marked at, I think, $20. The carousel wasn't rotating, so I looked inside and saw a bunch of random CDs scattered inside. After removing some it was rotating but making clunky noises. Turning the flashlight on my phone on, placing it on the carousel, and rotating it revealed yet more random CD's scattered around inside. I got those out and tried playing a disc and it worked just fine. This is why you unload these before moving them!
I bought my first piece of replacement gear on Ebay yesterday. The listing says the 300 disc changer is "Partially tested. Selling as is for parts only." The seller posted a video that shows it loading and playing a disc, but making some odd noises. They also included a bunch of pictures; in one of them, there's quite clearly a random CD sitting way in the back, off the carousel. It did take longer than expected to start playing a track, but that's probably because it was set to shuffle mode and had to seek to track 8 before starting.
The seller has lots of good feedback and I feel reasonably sure they are presenting it honestly. They also sell tons of *really* random crap. Miriam thinks they might be buying storage locker contents or something. A picture of the back shows some old dusty cables plugged in and attached to nothing. Because they are basically extraneous to the unit and add no value or information, and because of the nature of the stuff they sell, I extrapolate that the seller basically doesn't know enough about the device and its operation to find the problem or confirm that its working. I'm betting, literally since I just spent some insurance money on it, that it will get here and work just fine.
I guess I'll let you know sometime between the 15th of this month and the 8th of June, when it arrives from California.