To provide an acoustic apparatus with a personal computer control function capable of displaying an image attracting the interest of a user without displaying an operation panel image or the like while the acoustic apparatus controlled by a personal computer continues a prescribed action such as reproduction.

A CD player 6 and the personal computer 5 comprising a display 5a and a main body 5b are connected together by a control line 7, and the reproduction operation of the CD player 6 can be controlled based on the control command from the main body 5b. The CD player 6 has a controller 8 for its overall control, and an optional disk from a disk storage section 9 can be set on a disk playing section 10 for playback. Its output can be amplified to a speaker level by an amplifier 12, and a RAM(random access memory) 11 is connected to the controller. A prescribed character image is displayed on the display 5a according to the history state of the music played by the disk playing section 10, and its shape is changed according to the history.