Skip-free music, even while crashing
Jared Carey ([email protected])January 1999
I have owned an MZ-R50 for about four months and along with that a '98 Ford Ranger for about two weeks... My portable Minidisc recorder was hooked up to my stereo system in my truck by means of one of those "tape adapters." I played it everywhere I went. Well, one night it was dark, rainy, cold, yucky, etc. I was driving home from work and had to make a left turn onto a major highway. A "historic marker sign" blocked my view of a set of car lights that I should have seen, but it was too late. The truck was totaled out completely with most of the damage on the driver's side door. However, I could still hear the music playing on loud and proud without a single skip from my Minidisc player, which was thrown behind the passenger seat.
Another reader adds:
I have owned a Sony MDX-C150 car deck for three years now. Since I've had it, it has never skipped a beat, and I mean never. One interesting situation happened about 2 years ago. I was driving home from school when I came upon an intersection. The light was green and I proceeded to go through it, as I was at the point of no return (You know, where I couldn't have stopped safely) the light changed yellow, I remember seeing this. Anyway, right after the light changed I noticed that someone in the left turn lane in front of me decided to jump the RED light and stop their car right in front of mine when they noticed I was coming. Needless to say, I totaled that car. But the great thing was that after the actual crash, I was at a dead stop with my foot on the accelerator, and Megadeth blaring in the background.A second, and quite similar occurrence happened not just three months after that, with another car. Someone else had run a red light and forced me to wreck yet another car, but that damn MD deck just wouldn't stop playing my music!