Coby CX-CD585 Personal CD Player
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Coby Sports CD Player sure Played Me
Pros
It was free until I paid for batteries
Cons
Death came after one CD. It is bad landfill fodder now.
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
You don't really hate anyone enough to buy this as a gift for them. Do you?
While it is very hard to speak ill about a gift, this truly worthless gift must ill spoke.
From the Package to my desk '
I received the Coby Sports personal CD player with 60-Second Anti-Skip Protection for a good deed at work. I was thrilled that I'd been awarded, let alone getting such a cool looking prize. I thought that day was one of my luckier days. Not winning the Lotto that night should have been my first clue that it wasn't really my lucky day.
The Coby CD player comes with large, but thinly padded headphones that go around your neck, not over your head. The thin foam on the headphones are uncomfortable to use for more than a millisecond at a time. They irritate your ears long before the hard, uncomfortable plastic earpieces that goes over your ears can do. There is an AC adaptor to use to play if you don't have charged up batteries. The rechargeable batteries must be purchased separately. I bought 2 AA rechargeables the next day.
Operation:
Even though there's one fan-fold page of instructions (both English and Spanish) the CD player operation was pretty intuitive. I didn't have the right kind of batteries, so I plugged in the AC adaptor, flipped open the 2 latches on either side of the player, opened the lid, put in a 1971 compilation CD and plugged in my external computer speakers.
At first the music sounded really bad. I discovered that it is very easy to not have your speaker or headset cord snugly into the phone jack socket. There isn't a definitive click or clicking feel. With the speakers in all the way, the audio was great. It was really a lot of fun to listen to music while I worked. That was a really enjoyable 73 minutes.
I'm glad I enjoyed that one CD because that was the only CD I've been able to listen to fully. The next 5 hours I kept trying to get the CD player to work. I kept getting this symbol: "- -" which is not in the fan-fold manual anywhere. The closest I could find was the error for the unit not being able to read a CD. After numerous tries and about 4 hours, I was able to get the CD player to "see" a CD shortly before I left for the day. I didn't finish that song, just saw that it worked and went to buy some expensive rechargeable batteries, foolishly thinking all was well with the world.
Not Even Taps
I bought the AA rechargeable batteries that were recommended, charged them over night and installed them into my now portable CD player. I did hear music until I tried to carry around the CD player -as in Portable Mode. That was the last time I've been able to get anything out of my now not-so-great prize. I have been trying every technician trick in the book. The only thing I have not done is throw the frustrating gift against an innocent wall.
Manufacturers Claims
Assuming their marketing group got one of these to work for more than an hour, I can't verify the claims
*All Weather
*60-Second skip protection
*Skip, Search, Play, Pause and Hold
*Programmable
*4 Play Modes
Recommendation
This is the perfect gift for evil mother in laws, lazy coworkers, tight-fisted bosses, or dictators. Otherwise, this defective unit isn't even fit to donate to a Salvation Army group to try to fix it. I will anyway, but won't take the $25 write off.
From the Package to my desk '
I received the Coby Sports personal CD player with 60-Second Anti-Skip Protection for a good deed at work. I was thrilled that I'd been awarded, let alone getting such a cool looking prize. I thought that day was one of my luckier days. Not winning the Lotto that night should have been my first clue that it wasn't really my lucky day.
The Coby CD player comes with large, but thinly padded headphones that go around your neck, not over your head. The thin foam on the headphones are uncomfortable to use for more than a millisecond at a time. They irritate your ears long before the hard, uncomfortable plastic earpieces that goes over your ears can do. There is an AC adaptor to use to play if you don't have charged up batteries. The rechargeable batteries must be purchased separately. I bought 2 AA rechargeables the next day.
Operation:
Even though there's one fan-fold page of instructions (both English and Spanish) the CD player operation was pretty intuitive. I didn't have the right kind of batteries, so I plugged in the AC adaptor, flipped open the 2 latches on either side of the player, opened the lid, put in a 1971 compilation CD and plugged in my external computer speakers.
At first the music sounded really bad. I discovered that it is very easy to not have your speaker or headset cord snugly into the phone jack socket. There isn't a definitive click or clicking feel. With the speakers in all the way, the audio was great. It was really a lot of fun to listen to music while I worked. That was a really enjoyable 73 minutes.
I'm glad I enjoyed that one CD because that was the only CD I've been able to listen to fully. The next 5 hours I kept trying to get the CD player to work. I kept getting this symbol: "- -" which is not in the fan-fold manual anywhere. The closest I could find was the error for the unit not being able to read a CD. After numerous tries and about 4 hours, I was able to get the CD player to "see" a CD shortly before I left for the day. I didn't finish that song, just saw that it worked and went to buy some expensive rechargeable batteries, foolishly thinking all was well with the world.
Not Even Taps
I bought the AA rechargeable batteries that were recommended, charged them over night and installed them into my now portable CD player. I did hear music until I tried to carry around the CD player -as in Portable Mode. That was the last time I've been able to get anything out of my now not-so-great prize. I have been trying every technician trick in the book. The only thing I have not done is throw the frustrating gift against an innocent wall.
Manufacturers Claims
Assuming their marketing group got one of these to work for more than an hour, I can't verify the claims
*All Weather
*60-Second skip protection
*Skip, Search, Play, Pause and Hold
*Programmable
*4 Play Modes
Recommendation
This is the perfect gift for evil mother in laws, lazy coworkers, tight-fisted bosses, or dictators. Otherwise, this defective unit isn't even fit to donate to a Salvation Army group to try to fix it. I will anyway, but won't take the $25 write off.
