Panasonic SL-SX460 Personal CD Player
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Panasonic has lost a customer.
Pros
Price, sound quality, very slim, nice colour.
Cons
Scratches easily, bad customer support, failed on me after one year.
Recommended it?
Yes
OK, let me explain myself for the conflicting scores and my title. First off, this CD player is the BEST portable player I'd ever owned. I don't recall it EVER skipping, and it would play any CD I threw into into, scratched or whatever.
The features of the player are also a huge bonus. It came with 2 rechargeable batteries, and an extra battery pack that screws on to give over 30 hours of listening, which is pretty amazing. Furthermore, it has the recharger built in, making it nearly cost free to run this thing after you buy it.
As for features, the headphones included stunk, but that can be easily rectified. The player also has equalization settings which I found fairly useless. The bass setting muddies up every other level, the treble setting kills everything that's NOT treble. The best way to listen to music with this machine is using no equalization at all.
Another major plus for this unit was cost. I paid only $150 Canadian for the player, when other comparable units cost upwards of $225. A great deal.
Now for some minor cons- the plastic cover scratches easily, and Panasonic should have put some sort of switch to keep the player closed, because it will sometimes inadvertently open while in your pocket.
And finally, the real reason for my gripes with Panasonic. I bought this player approximately 1 1/2 years ago. For 1 year, this thing worked absolutely perfectly. And then, no word of a lie, about 5 days after the warranty period was up, it stopped working. The motor that moves the laser gave out. So I called Panasonic and was told they could do nothing, and that the approximate cost to repair would be over $100.
I know it sounds like petty griping, but the way that the customer support person handled the transaction was very rude, and the fact that Panasonic was completely unwilling to help out in the situation left a bad taste in my mouth.
Anyways, I recommmend the player, but be warned that it may conk out after a bit.
The features of the player are also a huge bonus. It came with 2 rechargeable batteries, and an extra battery pack that screws on to give over 30 hours of listening, which is pretty amazing. Furthermore, it has the recharger built in, making it nearly cost free to run this thing after you buy it.
As for features, the headphones included stunk, but that can be easily rectified. The player also has equalization settings which I found fairly useless. The bass setting muddies up every other level, the treble setting kills everything that's NOT treble. The best way to listen to music with this machine is using no equalization at all.
Another major plus for this unit was cost. I paid only $150 Canadian for the player, when other comparable units cost upwards of $225. A great deal.
Now for some minor cons- the plastic cover scratches easily, and Panasonic should have put some sort of switch to keep the player closed, because it will sometimes inadvertently open while in your pocket.
And finally, the real reason for my gripes with Panasonic. I bought this player approximately 1 1/2 years ago. For 1 year, this thing worked absolutely perfectly. And then, no word of a lie, about 5 days after the warranty period was up, it stopped working. The motor that moves the laser gave out. So I called Panasonic and was told they could do nothing, and that the approximate cost to repair would be over $100.
I know it sounds like petty griping, but the way that the customer support person handled the transaction was very rude, and the fact that Panasonic was completely unwilling to help out in the situation left a bad taste in my mouth.
Anyways, I recommmend the player, but be warned that it may conk out after a bit.
