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 | COBY MP-CD521 Personal MP3/CD Player with 120 Second Anti-Skip Protection
Great--With One Exception -- 2010-07-19
I really like this CD player as I use it in the car when driving long distances to learn Italian. They only problem is I don't have a secure place to put in near me in the car and it slipped and fell and now the cover won't stay closed so I have to tape it shut in order for it to play. This was the reason why I replaced my previous one. I used to keep it shut with a rubber band but now I use tape. If the company could figure out how to keep the top more secure I would rate it higher.
This portable player plays MP3 cd files!!!!! -- 2010-06-23
I really like this player because I am now able to listen to the MP3 files I bought online from an old time radio website. I can now hear Little Orphan Annie which has like fifty odd episodes on one cd. I am able to pick up where I left off the last time I listened. I don't have to start over from the very beginning as some people complain about. The instructions are very clear and if you read them you won't have a problem. I only wish I had an AC adapter as they suggest you use one while listening at home so not to wear out the battery. What is also cool about this player is that you can use rechargeable batteries and the player will recharge the batteries for you when you flip a certain button. How cool is that?
Very cool! : ) By the way [...] has loads of old time radio shows and broadcasts if you are curious.
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 | Coby Electronics MP-CD451 Portable AM/FM Radio MP3 CD Player
COBY ELECTRONIC MP-CD451 am/fm radio MP3 CD PLAYER -- 2010-08-22
I bought this product for the CD player, so I cannot comment about the radio and MP3 freatures.
I was very happy to receive this product after the wait for shipping. However, it would turn counter-clockwise 1/2 of the time rendering it useless. The portable player itself became very hot after using it for about 1/2 an hour. I decided not to get it replaced as I did not want to go through the whole process and end up with another useless player.
So I opted to have my money refunded which cost me $2.00 for a defective product.
I know Amazon is a good company, but I will purchase a similar product at a real store who will refund my purchase in full.
I'd really like my $2.00 back as that is what it cost me in gas money to return it to a UPS store.
Power Cord Won't Stay In -- 2010-05-23
We got one of these for my daughter's room. They use a huge number of batteries but we were planning to use it plugged in. But the cord just falls out. It's a very loose connection and keeps cutting off the power so the boombox is useless unless you use batteries in it. The company sent us another power cord, but that didn't work either. Then they sent us another boombox. Same issue. You cannot use this plugged in.
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 | Panasonic SL-SX420 CD/MP3 Player with Headphones (Metallic finish)
pretty good for the price -- 2010-06-01
I got mine in 2003 and used it quite a lot in my car and the remote cames in real handy there. It woked well with any cassettee deck car adapter.
It sounds pretty good and I found I could set the anti-shock on the 10 second selection and had no skips.
On this unit you cannot turn the anti-skip completely off.
I play music CD's and mp3's and it works well on both. You cannot fast forward within mp3 tracks.
The unit is a bit flimsy however I have never dropped. I had it setting on the hump of the cars floor just ahead of the rear seat and it has fallen off even though the hump is wide and has got scratches but it still to this day works very well.
I looked at all units in this price range , mine was on sale at best buy.
I do not like the rather small buttons on the lid.
I have always either made the choice of Panasonic or Sony portable CD players and well as boom boxes. Panasonic always appeared to be just a bit more well made and a bit less in price.
I like the round design best of all the CD players of this type however in this type of design the hinge are is now where near as sturdy as in units that have a flat area at the covers hinge. I have a Panasonic SX-SL 270 which is much studier and the CD has a push button release , yet is does not play mp3's , has no remote even though Panasonic models of the same model number like the SL-SX 271C or 271C 275 and 272C are the same unit with either a car kit or a remote control option. The SL-SX 270 is a 2000 model year , still works fine. It also has the rotor and entire moving drive on rubber mounts which do not exist on the SL-SX 420.
I got mine four years ago... -- 2007-01-03
And of all of the personal cd/mp3 players I've owned, this has been the best. It sounds nice, and although it doesn't show titles of songs like some mp3 players and it certainly isn't as fancy, it does the job it's supposed to do. But I went through two other mp3 players before this one. My first was a Rio Volt; I dropped it once by accident and that was the end. My second was a TDK, and although it lasted for a year sans any kind of abuse, it only lasted a year. But this one has taken my guff for four years. It was with me in all of my high school art classes (which is why it has little bits of epoxy resin in some of the buttons), and it's walked everywhere with me through cold and rain (although it does stop working in the cold; but the nifty part about this is the remote, because then you can put the actual player in a nice, warm bag while you walk). I accidentally dropped it on the way out of an appointment with my therapist and expected it not to work after that. The only damage done? The open/close button busted off. So now I have to keep the player shut with a rubber band. About a week ago, I dropped it again from about 5 feet above a wet, asphalt parking lot. The rubber band popped off, the player popped open, the disc came out, the battery door (which is hinged and on the inside) went flying clear off along with the batteries, one of which I never did find. I thought for sure the Panasonic was never going to work again. I got a new flash mp3 player for Christmas last week, so I never even bothered to check and see if the Panasonic was actually broken. But the flash mp3 player was defective, and as I'm waiting on a new one, I finally faced my fear and put some new batteries in the Panasonic. Miraculously, the thing still works just as good as the day I got it. Aside from all of the abuse the SL-SX420 can handle, the life of your average set of Duracell AA's in this baby is about 13 hours (12.75 if you happen to be a triskaidekaphobic). If you're unable to update your operating system to something that is compatible with the newer flash mp3 players (or you have XP-aphobia like I do), or you simply can't afford a flash mp3 player, or you're just looking for real, honest-to-goodness quality and don't care what kind of mp3 player you get just as long as it plays mp3s, then the Panasonic SL-SX420 is the way to go. I love mine and am almost kind of sad that I'm moving on to a flash.
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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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 | 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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 | Philips EXP401 Pocket eXpanium CD-MP3 Player with 100 Second Anti-Skip
Still in love after all these years... -- 2006-03-09
I bought two of these from eBay a few years back - one for me, and one for my now-fiancé. I was obsessed with its "small is the new small" style, and I loved its globular, from-the-not-so-distant-future look.
Was I impressed with it? Yes. Am I still? See previous answer. According to the manufacture date, this sexy little number will be five years old this September, and it has yet to cheese me off.
True, it's not a battery conservationist's dream - what high-drain one-battery device manufactured in 2001 is? In the not-so-distant future, I charge two NiMHs, use one, and keep the spare in my pocket. Come on, folks - it only uses ONE BATTERY!
True, it's more than twice the size of my Rio Chiba Urban, which I also adore. But I don't have fifty SD cards, nor do I have the time to write and rewrite to the few that I have. I do, however, have fifty 88-cent 8cm CDRWs, and it takes a heck of a lot less time to write a 192MB CD than it does to transfer 128MB over USB 1.1 - not only that, but the player doesn't need to be anywhere near the computer, sucking batteries, while I'm doing it.
True, it doesn't display song/artist/album information. Neither does the iPod Shuffle, and rich brats are all over those things like a fat cat on a bag of Meow Mix. Besides, you made the CD; you know what's on it. Element of surprise, and all that.
True, it's slightly cheap and plastic-feeling. Here's a news flash from the not-so-distant future, kids: consumer electronics these days are rarely made with an eye for craftsmanship. Both of our units look only slightly worn after years of use, and they have that kind of stylistic "je ne sais quoi" that will have our descendants praising it as we do the Phonospheres of yore.
So yes, it has served me well over the years. It's a shame it's no longer made, to my knowledge. Actually, come to think of it, maybe it's a good thing - I'm the only one (besides my fiancé) who has one, and its kooky kitsch potential will ensure its collectibility in the not-so-distant future.
Great Idea - Needs work. -- 2004-04-16
Bought this for my wife to use at work; was impressed by the resume ability and 2-minute ESD. The resume ability was for her to listen to long audiobooks; as the resume ability does not work (see review by "An electronics fan"), that idea is down the drain. Secondly, also mentioned in "An electronics fan"'s review, the machine turns off if you take a particularly hard step while walking with it in your hand. Pitiful. Will be giving this away and buying a better one.
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 | RioVolt SP90 Portable CD-MP3 Player with 120 Seconds Anti-Skip
RioVolt SP90 PORTABLE CD-MP3 PLAYER WITH ANTI-SKIP -- 2010-04-14
I purchased this item back in 2002, and at the time I was pretty pleased with it; however, I've had a lot of thoughts about it since then. It was handy to have in my car, and I was pleased with it; however, it did skip. Probably not as much as other players I had tried. I would have given it more stars except for the skipping of the CD's.
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.
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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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 | 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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 | TDK MOJO Portable CD-MP3 Digital Jukebox with 8 Minute Anti-Shock and Artist, Title, Genre, and Album Directory
TIME BOMB!!! -- 2003-07-12
I bought the mojo a little over a year ago and we've had the best of times together -- that is, until recently.
To begin with my mojo absolutely refused to play either MP3 cds or normal audio cds, making extremely annoying whirring sounds
In other words, after a year (more or less) of use -- my mojo cutout and refuses to function (after being treated with the utmost respect). It's a complete waste of money -- DONT PURCHASE IT!!!!
Often fails to play audio CD's -- 2003-06-23
While the Mojo performs well with MP3 discs, it will certainly disapoint you when you play a regular audio CD. No matter it is a factory CD or your own recorded one, if it is not new it will fail playing too often, even my little daughter cheap CD player has a better performance. Yes, I tried cleaning the lens!
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