A reproduction apparatus and a reproduction apparatus are disclosed which can reduce the settling time until high speed continuous reproduction is resumed after such high speed continuous reproduction is interrupted. If continuous reproducing a disk-type recording medium is interrupted during high speed reproduction, then the rotational speed of the disk-type recording medium is lowered once from the speed for high speed reproduction to a normal reproduction speed. Then, when a continuous reproduction operation is performed again, the rotational speed is changed over from the normal reproduction speed to the high rotational speed for high speed reproduction.