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11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Definitely one of the best products by Philips, or ANY company for that matter! Mar 18, 2007
This CD Player is one of the best ever known to mankind.
First, the Pros:
1. EXCELLENT SOUND! The Dynamic Bass Boost on this player is a plus, but you don't need it! the sound is perfect on its own, cause I am listening to this player right now, and it does not lie! It gives clear, rich bass sounds, even on low volumes, and NEVER make an irritating fuzzy noise as some other cd players out there.
2. Design! This CD player is very attractive and sporty, looking like it costs a million bucks. There are 3 cute "bubble" like circles morphed together on the front of the cd player, with a nice big play/pause button on top, the screen in the middle, and the skip/forward, skip back/rewind, stop and DBB(Dynamic Bass Boost) buttons on the bottom. It also has an interesting design on the front, but DO NOT BE FOOLED FELLOW SHOPPERS! The design pattern on the front actually disappears and reappears when you turn it to a different angle, it IS NOT a single picture.
3. Headphones! These headphones ARE NOT flimsy, and will withstand anything, like how they accidentally fell off my third story window onto my concrete driveway, with as much as a crack! (Don't ask me how this happened). They deliver rich sounds and fit snugly on your head. They don't irritate your ears, and the are very comfy.
4. Shape/Battery compartment: The player has an extremely cute round shape, and there is no annoying little bump on top for the battery compartment. The battery compartment actually is located inside the player, under where you would normally put the cd.
5. Features: Play, pause, stop, skip forward, skip back, fast-forward, rewind, Dynamic Bass Boost, Program, random play/shuffle, repeat one track, repeat all tracks, volume up, volume down, included headphones, optional 4.5 DC ac adapter plug, resume, hold.
Now, the cons:
1. Settings: PLEASE don't take into consideration the fact that the settings (that you can program) reset itself after every time it is turned on! Besides, I could care less about this anyway!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Disappointing Dec 17, 2008
By Frank
On a recent trip through New England I picked up a few CDs. Bored with the TV program at the hotels, I picked up this player from RadioShack so I could at least listen to my CDs. I don't remember why I thought a player for around 30 bucks would deliver good sound. Maybe because ages ago two brands used to build good-sounding, entry-level PCDPs: Toshiba and Philips.
Bottom line: The player sounded *surprisingly* bad: Imagine you are standing in the kitchen, frying some eggs whilst the hifi system in the living room is playing some old mono record: Very high noise floor, almost complete lack of stereo "imaging", music is uninvolving and somehow "sterile". Playback time with a fresh set of alkalines is about 9-12 hours max. My entry-level Toshiba SL-CT 490 from 5 years ago gives me about 18 hours.
To test whether the problem was actually the headphones that came with the player, I popped in a pair of headphones that cost 4 times as much as the player: Audio Technica's ATH-AD700 (open back): nope - same, disappointing result. I like bargains. Some of my best hifi gear was chaep as chips. This player, however, is overpriced - even at 29,99.
 I like it. Dec 10, 2009
By hometech
This is a very stylish CD player. The sound is very good despite there is tiny background noise, which is only noticable between songs. I think that's normal for all CD players. It just uses two AA batteries for hours of music. Overall it's a very good CD player.
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