Panasonic SL-CT590 Personal CD Player
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- CD-R/CD-RW Playback: CD-R/CD-RW
- Bass Boost: With Bass Boost
- Anti Skip Buffer: 48 sec.
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Stay away. Really.
Pros
Thin, attractive, lightweight, worked really well at first.
Cons
Spontaneously stopped working, the eleventh bolgia of hell that is customer service
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
Stay away. Really.
I got one of these puppies back in September. It was pretty nice at first. I liked it because it came with a remote and a carrying pouch thingy and it had a long battery life.
There were some annoying parts, like how the resume function starts a track from the beginning every time and how the sound cuts out for a second when you push a button on the remote, but it wasn't bad, overall.
After a couple of months, though, it stopped working. Something about the controls; I couldn't stop it and then once it did stop I could never start it again. Panasonic gave me the address of a place that would fix it for me, so I took it in.
A week later, they called back and told me that Panasonic had given them specific instructions not to fix the CD player. I would have to send it in for a replacement.
Cut ahead three weeks or so, and my replacement arrives. Not the same color, but I didn't mind that so much. What I did mind was that there was no remote and a set of batteries lasted about half as long as in my original CD player. I called back and they sent me a new remote, but it wouldn't work, so they told me to send it in again.
Another month, and I'm on my third. Once again, it has no remote. The Panasonic people tell me that it isn't compatible with a remote control, despite the fact that my original came with one and various store web sites say that it's supposed to include one. Also, when comparing manuals, I'm finding that even the listed battery life for the replacement is significantly shorter than for my original. Panasonic says they'll give me a refund if I send this one back, but after all the time I spent, the shipping, and the long distance charges, it feels like I'm cutting my losses.
Avoid this CD player. In fact, avoid Panasonic unless you're absolutely sure that you'll never need any kind of customer service.
There were some annoying parts, like how the resume function starts a track from the beginning every time and how the sound cuts out for a second when you push a button on the remote, but it wasn't bad, overall.
After a couple of months, though, it stopped working. Something about the controls; I couldn't stop it and then once it did stop I could never start it again. Panasonic gave me the address of a place that would fix it for me, so I took it in.
A week later, they called back and told me that Panasonic had given them specific instructions not to fix the CD player. I would have to send it in for a replacement.
Cut ahead three weeks or so, and my replacement arrives. Not the same color, but I didn't mind that so much. What I did mind was that there was no remote and a set of batteries lasted about half as long as in my original CD player. I called back and they sent me a new remote, but it wouldn't work, so they told me to send it in again.
Another month, and I'm on my third. Once again, it has no remote. The Panasonic people tell me that it isn't compatible with a remote control, despite the fact that my original came with one and various store web sites say that it's supposed to include one. Also, when comparing manuals, I'm finding that even the listed battery life for the replacement is significantly shorter than for my original. Panasonic says they'll give me a refund if I send this one back, but after all the time I spent, the shipping, and the long distance charges, it feels like I'm cutting my losses.
Avoid this CD player. In fact, avoid Panasonic unless you're absolutely sure that you'll never need any kind of customer service.
