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 | COBY MP-CD521 Personal MP3/CD Player with 120 Second Anti-Skip Protection
Good Value -- 2010-01-26
All in all a good value of form and function. Only two digs... 1) the lack of an AC charger in the box (you'll need to go the rechagreable battery route otherwise) 2) the display screen is very small, making some of the indicators so small that it is hard to clearly see them if your are not in perfect lighting.
cheapo CD player -- 2010-01-24
Ok value for the cheap price. Good enough for the purpose I bought it for.
the attached earphones should be replaced w/ better ones, sound of the incl ones is really tinny.
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 | Coby Electronics MP-CD451 Portable AM/FM Radio MP3 CD Player
Terrible quality -- 2010-02-15
I read all the comments but most of them were dated back to as early as
2005 and hoping that the manufacturer increased the quality,
I purchased two of these online, and returned both today.
I had all the problems mentioned before, such as:
1) Probably a screw was lose, and rattling inside one of the boomboxes.
2) Loud humming noise when plugged in. The noise was so loud that
you could even hear it when the music is being played.
Not suitable for the lullabies at all.
3) One of them couldn't read my CDs, CDRs, CDRWs, and mp3 discs.
Trust me, I was not expecting a state-of-the art product or
a high-tech sound quality. This one is truly unacceptable.
This is the first and the only product I returned. I do not
recommend it at all.
Absolute Junk -- 2010-02-12
If you have a lot of money, and want to throw away some, buy this product ! This product is absolutely Junk. Worked for a few days with a lot of noise and then broke. Threw it away.
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 | Jwin JXCD462DS Portable Dual Voltage CD Boombox with Cassette Playback and AM/FM
Disappointed -- 2010-03-05
Ordered this product for my son. It was broken out of the box. It had a short to the volume button so you can only hear the sound if you put your head directly to the speaker. [...]
NOT dual voltage!!! -- 2007-12-15
This product claims to be dual voltage, but it fried as soon as I plugged it in (we live overseas). We would have had to pay to return this defective product, and so it wasn't worth the bother. I will never order any products made by this brand again!
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 | RioVolt SP90 Portable CD-MP3 Player with 120 Seconds Anti-Skip
The best CD/mp3/wma player ever. -- 2005-03-08
I've had this CD player for three years and it just recently quit working. It wasn't just three years of use, it was three years of use and abuse. You could kill a man with this and it'd keep on truckin and truckin ain't for sissies.
Durn Good Unit -- 2004-07-22
I have had my unit for 3 years now and the only problem in all that time is when the lid button to indicate closed position broke off. It was an easy fix and the unit still works to this day. Running a lens cleaner every now and then helps to keep the sound quality and readability up to par, also.
As for battery life; 12 hours using alkaline and 10 hrs with nimh, average. Higher bitrates tend to increase drain so I suggest 128 to 192 as the best range for battery life and sound quality.
WMA support is excellent and yes, you can use VBR for mp3.
I am planning on buying another one when this one finally up and dies on me.
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 | iriver SlimX iMP-400 CD / MP3 Player (Silver)
one of a kind! -- 2005-02-04
although we dont have this specific product! my Mother owns a Slim X product mp3/cd player! we go on lots of vacations in the car and so we need LOTS of music!hee hee hee!!! we spend weeks and weeks making music mixes! and take off, on the trip listening to cds!
the quality of the frame is wonderful it has yet to be "rusting" the remote has broken once but that was my fault when i closed the car door on it! it was an easy fix! the batteries were rechargable and theres a car adapter so if the batteries died on a road trip we could still listen to music and recharge the batteries at night when were not on the road! mom also runs a few miles in the mornings and takes the player with her she said it doesnt skip, so i was sold... (i even "borrowed" it for a while when running, myself!...^_^) and since mom doesnt listen to the raidio she doesnt have extra buttons to gripe about!^_^ well i love moms slim X and my friends have similar slim X products also so i highly suggest slim X products.
enjoy!!!!
Overall i-river quality -- 2004-12-15
This is a warning about i-riverI do not have this specific i-river product, but I have purchased two of their products in the past, and the quality of both began to deteriorate within months. Both of them damaged numerous sets of headphones, wearing the connectors to the point that only one earpiece would work. On one of my players, the backlight on the LCD stopped working, and on the other the connection between the player and the USB chord no longer holds properly, preventing me from changing any of the MP3's on a 64 MB player. When I contacted the company about these problems they gave me the good ole runaround, basically vouching for the poor qaulity of their products. I will not being buy any of their products again.
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 | RioVolt SP250 Portable MP3-CD Player with FM Tuner and 8 Minutes Anti-Skip
Rio Revolt SP 250 -- 2007-10-27
Product worked well for a year then just completely quit, had to be replaced by an MP3 player.
A good player, but needs better instructions. -- 2005-01-23
This item arrived with very little information on how to burn and play MP3 files and, in particular, WMA files. I burnt two discs and messed around with the player and my computer for a week before writing Rio and receiving a technician's answer. I appreciated the customer support, but the information really should have been in the player's documentation or on Rio's website. To listen to WMA files, I ended up having to delete and restore the 1200 songs on my computer because I'd stored them initially with the "automatic rights control" (or some such) box checked in the Windows Media Player. After all the headache, and two years of continuous use, I do enjoy having this player. Do remember that it only plays MP3 or WMA files burnt to a disk; it does not function as an MP3 player that stores and plays files in its hardware.
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 | Panasonic SL-SV550 CD/MP3 Player
Love the cd player, dislike the quality -- 2006-03-22
Overall, I love the cd/mp3 player, it plays beautifully. The bass boost is nice and strong, but i just hate the quality. The opening slide thing fell off, not broke off, just fell off. (I used a paper clip, and later, plain wire to fashion a closing device which works better.) then some random part inside fell off and i had to retrieve it from the hole by the lens. It still plays, but..slightly awkward thing to have happen.
It's still a really good buy if you treat it really carefully.
and the headphones that come with it- JUNK! they hardly produce any sound, i got new ones, and it works beautifully, nice and loud.
Panasonic SL-SV550 broken latch -- 2005-05-29
I fixed the latch with a bent paper clip.
I was walking down 9th Ave., on my way to buy a portable CD player, and a guy was selling used stuff on a table. He had a used Panasonic SL-SV550, but the latch was broken and he held it closed with adhesive tape. After some haggling I bought it. When I got home and examined the latch, I decided that I could replace it by cutting and bending wire from a paper clip.
The latch assembly is made with a hook that comes down from the top part of the clamshell, and when the latch is missing you can see how it operates. The missing latch originally fit into 2 rectangular holes and slid back and forth. Using needle-nosed pliers and wire cutters, I straightened out the paper clip and bent a projection into the latch to hold the hook. Then I made L-shaped bends on each end of the wire to hold it in to those 2 rectangular holes. So the wire had enough room to move back and forth, and catch or release the hook. The bent paper clip looks sort of like this:
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(this may not come out well on some browsers, but there are 2 L-shaped bends on either end to hold it into the rectangular holes, and a U-shaped or ^-shaped projection in the middle to engage the hook).
It took a couple of tries to bent it to fit, but it worked pretty well. I move my new latch back and forth with my thumbnail. Maybe it will break some day but I can always make a new one.
When you cut the paper clip with the wire cutters, be sure to wear glasses because the end can fly off and there's a small chance it will hit you in the eye. Superficial eye injuries actually heal surprisingly well (as I found out after a mishap in the chemistry lab) but it's less trouble to wear glasses than to go to the emergency room.
You have to be (or want to be) a little bit of a geek to do this. Geeks use bent paper clips to fix their glasses when the screw falls out and the temple comes off, so if you see somebody whose glasses are held together by a paper clip, you know he's a geek. So when something breaks, think paper clips. Being a geek is empowering, since you can fix things when they break, and it's fun to take stuff apart. OTOH, you can also break things (and sometimes things explode -- be careful in the chemistry lab), so maybe it evens out.
At any rate, I'm ahead on the CD player.
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 | Nike Sport ACT400 Audio MP3-CD Player PSA
i like it better than any other cd player -- 2009-07-22
I LIKE THIS MP3/CD PLAYER VRS ANY OTHER THAT I BOUGHT IN THE PAST.
I REMEMBER WHEN YOU COULD BUY THE PLAYER AT ANY STORE SELLING IT.
ITS MUCH LOUDER THAN ANY OF THE CD PLAYERS IVE BOUGHT.
ONLY ONE ISSUE I HAVE.ITS SIZE.ITS BIG.
BUT SO IS ITS SOUND.
Don't bother. -- 2007-11-22
I had this for about a month. During the course of the month the LCD decided to stop working and then it wouldn't read disks at all. The only thing that worked were the headphones. Seeing as how I bought the player out of state at a store that doesn't have a local location I decided to call the company to get a refund or figure out if I could fix it myself or send it in. I was never able to get through to Customer Service to figure any of this information out. In the end it ended up making the perfect, most expensive paper weight I've yet to own next to my cat.
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 | Citizen CD160 Cd Player With Mp3 Playback And 120 Second Asp
Sk-ip...s-kip...ski-p -- 2009-05-14
This player skipped on every disc I tried to play; manufactured CD's, homemade CD-R's and MP3s burned to a CD. Every single disc skipped terribly. Very poor performance. I ended up returning it.
Great Value -- 2009-05-04
Citizen CD160 Cd Player With Mp3 Playback And 120 Second Asp
This item is a great value, is being used by a 96 yr old person. The shipper was great.
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 | RCA RP2450 Portable CD/MP3 Player
Still a good unit to have -- 2005-10-08
After owning this item for many years, I can say it's given me plenty of good use. It does occasionally have problems with skipping (a very harsh quick buzzing noise) or garbling, but more often than not it works perfectly fine.
One important note: this unit prefers CDRs to be recorded using "Mode 2/XA". Many cdr burning programs default to Mode 1, but in Nero you can choose Mode 2/XA. Mode 1 CDRs may not play very well, if at all, so beware of this. It's possible newer RCA models will have the same issue.
If you can find this unit used or in a discount bin for cheap, grab it.
Great little CD/MP3 Player -- 2003-11-30
I've had this CD player for a while and I love it. It's great. Good sound and as others have noted, it doesn't skip and I've tried. Batteries seemed to last ok.My complaints
1) - The cord of the remote is broken after 6 months of careful use. I don't know if RCA or someone makes a replacement.
2) - Random - what the %*#^% is the problem there? Random to me means different songs every time. This thing seems to generate a random list and plays it in that same order every time. Is that a common problem with CD players? Pretty minor - you won't go wrong for this price.
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