Panasonic SL-SX270 Personal CD Player
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Panasonic SL-SX270A CD Player - Headpones Must Go
Pros
Excellent sound (with proper headphones), quality, great ASM, plays scratched CDs
Cons
Volume control looks cheap
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
This model is a very good CD player. And if you want better sound, you can always get better headphones.
Although Panasonic SL-SX270A CD player is the cheapest CD player from Panasonic, it is not by any means limited in features and sound quality.
ASM
The CD player has 40 seconds of Anti-Shock Memory. Even with ASM off, it takes significant jolt for CD playing to skip, and interruption is significantly less than a second. But with ASM turned on, it is very difficult to make the player skip.
With ASM on, the player makes the disc rotate faster to compensate for possible interruptions. It also stores up to 40 seconds of music in memory. But the manual says that in ASM mode the batteries last longer (28 hr vs 23 with ASM off).
Since the ASM uses compression, the sound quality [theoretically] should be worse with ASM on, but I couldn?t notice any difference.
Sound Quality ? Headphones Must Go
The most important part of a portable CD player is headphones. They have the most effect on the sound quality. The supplied headphones are small and produce adequate sound. But, if you want better bass and middle frequencies, you better get good headphones.
The headphones that are just ?adequate? is an issue with other CD players as well, don?t think that only this model suffers from small (and cheap) headphones.
Yesterday I listened to ?The Doors?, comparing three headphones. Standard headphones and GE ?digital? headphones with mylar drivers provided sound that?s OK for jogging. But to get better sound, you have to get something in the same league with the third headphones I used.
Sentry 880 are inexpensive ($23), yet feature Samarium Cobalt 40mm drivers and leather padding and produce very good bass. After them, the return to supplied headphones is quite painful.
The player accepts CD-Rs and plays scratched CDs well. The player can also recharge and use special kind of rechargeable batteries, which I couldn't find in any store or on the Web, Panasonic's own website included.
However, you can get a set of rechargeables and a charger for $20. I suggest alkaline rechargeable batteries ? make sure you recharge them as often as possible to prolong their life.
The player also comes with an AC power supply you can use to listen to music at home.
Cheap-Looking Volume Control
The volume control has an oversized hole and you can see the contacts. This gives it cheap look (cost-cutting) and, although you cannot see it, unless you turn the player and pay attention, I was concerned about reliability of such design. But everything works fine, even after being dropped once (luckily on the carpeted surface).
This model is a very good CD player. And if you want better sound, you can always get better headphones.
ASM
The CD player has 40 seconds of Anti-Shock Memory. Even with ASM off, it takes significant jolt for CD playing to skip, and interruption is significantly less than a second. But with ASM turned on, it is very difficult to make the player skip.
With ASM on, the player makes the disc rotate faster to compensate for possible interruptions. It also stores up to 40 seconds of music in memory. But the manual says that in ASM mode the batteries last longer (28 hr vs 23 with ASM off).
Since the ASM uses compression, the sound quality [theoretically] should be worse with ASM on, but I couldn?t notice any difference.
Sound Quality ? Headphones Must Go
The most important part of a portable CD player is headphones. They have the most effect on the sound quality. The supplied headphones are small and produce adequate sound. But, if you want better bass and middle frequencies, you better get good headphones.
The headphones that are just ?adequate? is an issue with other CD players as well, don?t think that only this model suffers from small (and cheap) headphones.
Yesterday I listened to ?The Doors?, comparing three headphones. Standard headphones and GE ?digital? headphones with mylar drivers provided sound that?s OK for jogging. But to get better sound, you have to get something in the same league with the third headphones I used.
Sentry 880 are inexpensive ($23), yet feature Samarium Cobalt 40mm drivers and leather padding and produce very good bass. After them, the return to supplied headphones is quite painful.
The player accepts CD-Rs and plays scratched CDs well. The player can also recharge and use special kind of rechargeable batteries, which I couldn't find in any store or on the Web, Panasonic's own website included.
However, you can get a set of rechargeables and a charger for $20. I suggest alkaline rechargeable batteries ? make sure you recharge them as often as possible to prolong their life.
The player also comes with an AC power supply you can use to listen to music at home.
Cheap-Looking Volume Control
The volume control has an oversized hole and you can see the contacts. This gives it cheap look (cost-cutting) and, although you cannot see it, unless you turn the player and pay attention, I was concerned about reliability of such design. But everything works fine, even after being dropped once (luckily on the carpeted surface).
This model is a very good CD player. And if you want better sound, you can always get better headphones.
