Panasonic SL-SX420 Personal CD Player
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- CD-R/CD-RW Playback: CD-R/CD-RW
- Bass Boost: With Bass Boost
- Anti Skip Buffer: 45 sec.
- Supported Formats: MP3
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SL-SX420, a great buy
Pros
Remote Control, Hold feature to save battery, and prevent accidentally stopping playback, price
Cons
no ID3 tags, no radio or adapter, takes few seconds to read mp3 CDs.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
great price, Lots of music on one disc, sound quality is great, plug any headphones into remote, It's a Panasonic, and I think they can be trusted.
I just bought this item today at Circuit City, and I'm very glad I did. The price is great, and it has a remote which is very useful and convinent. The package also includes headphones with a short cord, so plugging them into the remote doesn't mean that you will have wires dragging on the floor. I was able to put the CD player into my pocket, and clip the remote to my collar, and I found that very convinent. It may be more difficult if you have deep pockets or are taller than I am, but still, it's no big deal...
The headphones aren't even that great, but any pair of headphones fits into the remote, (I've tried it) and if you do lose the remote, you can plug any pair of headphones into the CD player itself, (and unlike many other players, there are no functions that can only be performed using the remote, so if you do lose it and cant get a replacement, the CD player will still be fully functional)
Another review here said that It could hold up to 60 mp3s, but I copied 7 CDs (approx. 90 songs) onto one disc in addition to about 30 other songs, which I downloaded. (yes, i know... :P) I don't know how it works out, but I know it's 137 songs, and I still have room on the CD. I'm not sure of the quality level of the mp3s I burned, but I know that they sound fine. The amount of songs depends on the CD of course, but a 700MB CDR (most are 700MB) can hold about 175 songs. (based on 4MB per mp3)
Someone also mentioned that you can't make things too loud, and I did notice that even the loudest volume wasn't ear bustingly loud, but if anything that's a pro, as nobody wants to pop their eardrums. Besides, you can always get a pair of headphones with a volume control, and then you can make it even louder.
As I said in the cons, it does take a few extra seconds to play discs with mp3s, and I'm not sure if it takes longer depending ont he amount of songs, but I have 137 songs, and it takes about 3 seconds or so.
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I did notice that without the batteries or CD, it is very light. That's great for carrying it around in a pocket or something, but I'm not sure how it will be in the long run. Then again, it's a Panasonic, and I trust that brand.
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The package says it can go 37 hours on AA batteries (reg. not rechargable ones) but I'm not sure if thats true, and I imagine that mp3 CDs will drain battery faster.
The instructions also talk about recharging batteries, and I think that with an AC adapter and rechargable batteries you can plug it in, and recharge as you listen, but I don't really know. It probably would have been better if I had left this out.
Unfourtunatly, it doesn't handle ID3 tags, so it will not display the song title, or album or artist, and so there isn't even a large enough display to do so (it's not needed w/o ID3 tags), and you can't search for songs (because w/o ID3 tags, there's no search information) -I think it's still great, and ID3 tags and song information is cool, but unessecary, and probably eats up batteries anyway. It's all about the music, not features like song title display.
The headphones aren't even that great, but any pair of headphones fits into the remote, (I've tried it) and if you do lose the remote, you can plug any pair of headphones into the CD player itself, (and unlike many other players, there are no functions that can only be performed using the remote, so if you do lose it and cant get a replacement, the CD player will still be fully functional)
Another review here said that It could hold up to 60 mp3s, but I copied 7 CDs (approx. 90 songs) onto one disc in addition to about 30 other songs, which I downloaded. (yes, i know... :P) I don't know how it works out, but I know it's 137 songs, and I still have room on the CD. I'm not sure of the quality level of the mp3s I burned, but I know that they sound fine. The amount of songs depends on the CD of course, but a 700MB CDR (most are 700MB) can hold about 175 songs. (based on 4MB per mp3)
Someone also mentioned that you can't make things too loud, and I did notice that even the loudest volume wasn't ear bustingly loud, but if anything that's a pro, as nobody wants to pop their eardrums. Besides, you can always get a pair of headphones with a volume control, and then you can make it even louder.
As I said in the cons, it does take a few extra seconds to play discs with mp3s, and I'm not sure if it takes longer depending ont he amount of songs, but I have 137 songs, and it takes about 3 seconds or so.
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I did notice that without the batteries or CD, it is very light. That's great for carrying it around in a pocket or something, but I'm not sure how it will be in the long run. Then again, it's a Panasonic, and I trust that brand.
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The package says it can go 37 hours on AA batteries (reg. not rechargable ones) but I'm not sure if thats true, and I imagine that mp3 CDs will drain battery faster.
The instructions also talk about recharging batteries, and I think that with an AC adapter and rechargable batteries you can plug it in, and recharge as you listen, but I don't really know. It probably would have been better if I had left this out.
Unfourtunatly, it doesn't handle ID3 tags, so it will not display the song title, or album or artist, and so there isn't even a large enough display to do so (it's not needed w/o ID3 tags), and you can't search for songs (because w/o ID3 tags, there's no search information) -I think it's still great, and ID3 tags and song information is cool, but unessecary, and probably eats up batteries anyway. It's all about the music, not features like song title display.
