[FlameGrilled]

The only thing you should check for, in ANY CDP, over and above all the usual stuff, is to ensure it's fully CD-Extra/CD-Plus compliant for when you want to use Audio CD's.

CD-Extra/CD-Plus enhanced CD's, in essence, are like those old early game CD-ROMs where Track 1 was the data track, the audio tracks being Track 2 onwards.

In the case of CD-Extra/CD-Plus, the data track is the last track on the disc, and a compliant player (most worthy non-garbage CDP's) will discard the last track (aka Data track) - but in the old mixed mode method discs (track one being data) you'd often have to skip over the first track manually in less tolerant devices.

The reason i bring this up is :-

CD-Plus/CD-Extra discs (audio discs with extra data-stored content accessible by CD/DVD-ROM on computers usually) usually play fine in most decks that are not CD-Extra/Plus compliant, but the compliancy helps in the event you end up trying to play a Copy-Controlled CD.

Copy Controlled CD's, like is becoming more common, uses two sessions on a disc, the first session has audio tracks of 1-n as you'd expect and a data track like a CD-Extra/CD-Plus. Then it has a second recorded disc session, this is the bit where the 'copy control' extra of a on-disc media player component and other 'bits' is stored.

CD-Extra/CD-Plus compliant decks, like the iMP's, should be ok with CC-CD's - i'll whack one of my promo discs back into the iMP-250 when i get home, and remind myself if my 'off the top of my head' recollection is good still.

It was a long time ago, when 'copy control' efforts first started on Audio CD mastering, when i last tested the compatibility with the iMP-250.