JVC MC-100
Documentation for the JVC MC-100 is thin, and the period material filed under the name doesn't fully agree with itself. The earlier item is a 1980 listing in HiFI-Stereo (1980, p.76) for an integrated amplifier measuring 17⅓ × 5½ × 13 inches and priced at $550. It has bass and treble controls, a tone-defeat switch, two-way tape facilities, and a 6 dB/octave subsonic filter at 10 Hz. The surviving scan doesn't clearly show the model name, so the link to the MC-100 is tentative.
The link that holds up better is JVC's own advertising for the XL-MC100 in HiFI-Stereo (July 1994, p.33). That ad described a 100-disc CD changer. The controller could sit in a component rack, while the storage/transport unit went on the floor, a shelf, in a closet - even in another room. The ad also claimed a remote control that spelled out program choices in words and remembered the location and name of each disc.
Whether the MC-100 and the XL-MC100 are the same machine, or the archive's files simply got mixed, the surviving record can't yet settle. No spec sheet, manual, or full review for the MC-100 itself has surfaced.
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