 Functional, Reliable, and Cheap Strengths: Plays a wide range of bitrates (including vbr), very clear LCD display, very affordable
Weaknesses: Navigation controls are confusing, cannot use adapter to charge batteries, bass/noir setting has little use
Summary: This player was on sale when I bought it so for me it was well worth it. The actual retail price is probably close to what I paid back then. I knew the advantage of listening to MP3 Cd's and this player does it's part to help you listen to MP3s on the go. Given the average size of a CD (700mb) one can listen to about 10 hours of music. No, it doesn't have the storage capacity of most MP3 players, so certain people won't appreciate that limitation. In my case 10 hours, or more depending on how many Cd's I carry, is good enough. The volume level is good and sound quality is good most of the time. It only sounds bad when I use the "bass" setting, but perhaps my cheap earphones don't respond well to it. Either way it only distorts the sound so I don't use it. Sometimes when the battery is low I get some crazy distortion too. That only happens when the battery is very low and it stops when I turn off ESP. If ESP is off it will extend the battery life so I recommend turning it off if you're stationary. The MP3 navigation leaves something to be desired. A series of directional buttons would've been nice. It's not very intuitive but if it takes you more than 10 minutes to figure out the menu then you don't deserve to own portable electronics. The display constantly scrolls through the ID3 information but slightly too fast. The LCD doesn't refresh quite that fast so the text looks a little blurred. Also, I don't feel it's necessary to display the bitrate and frequency. One thing that lost major points for me was the inability to charge batteries. I had bought rechargeable batteries assuming the player would charge them. So now I'm the proud owner of two dead batteries. I really don't see myself using the DC input otherwise. If you don't have a CD player in your car you need to get with the times, but assuming you didn't you could keep the player running off your cigarette lighter. I say the player is worth the money, but it's a low price. So invest the extra money in an MP3 CD player, you'll get a better return.
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