Pine Technology SM200C Personal CD Player
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- CD-R/CD-RW Playback: CD-R/CD-RW
- Bass Boost: With Bass Boost
- Anti Skip Buffer: 10 sec.
- Supported Formats: MP3
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MP3 player? Ahem.
Pros
IT PLAY MP3!!!
Cons
ARRGG, TOO MANY OF IT.
Recommended it?
No
SM-200C, Made in Korea. I got thing last month for about US$199 after a year waiting. By the time this product reach me, it was already obsolete, I don't see a point why people still buying this product. I return mine after a few testing.
the LOOK
Ok, anyone whoever had a portable CD player should know how it should look like. The recent portable CD player is just so slim and lite, that really allow you to carry anyway you like. BUT, this SM-200C bulky and heavy is a nitemare, it is like those early 90 discman, I will think that it only fit inside a car but not into your pouch. And it look ugly too, with all cheap plastic material casing, doesn't make it look like an high tech mp3 player. Look at mambo-x or other non-cd mp3 player, their look really turn me on, that make me thing those product really belong to this computer age. :D
the INTERFACE >:(
Yeah, cool baby... I mean whoever try this thingy should keep cool and calm. with four main control button, and four function button we can run a CD with around 150 mp3 song inside. Just keep cool, tell me how u feel if u wan to listen to the only 149th song.... Yeah, it had a fast skipping function that u have to pause your current track and hold the skip button for skipping 10 song one time. But still, it is a pain. The CD loading is very SLOW, it make u want to cry each time u load a CD, it search through the whole cd, and dig out each track. You only able to start enjoying your cd as soon as it got finished(usuall abour 30sec to a minute). Well, worse still if your CD contain lots of sub folder(or directory), it make you wanna cry.
the LCD
Yeah, the LCD just good. You able to read all stuff with ID3 tag on, the coolest thing that MP3 have. It keep scrolling for artist name and song title. "but" not all ID3 tag seem to work, I try some of my CD, it somehow fail to read the ID3, and it will say "unknown....." tatata... well. I will prefer it give me at least the filename, so that I know what the heck I am playing right now. Anyway, the LCD is adequate for this mp3 CD player.
CD, CDR, CDRW
Yup, it work for all. You are lucky. :)
Sound Quality <:~~~(
Oh poor thing. Lot's of people might think that a mp3 player should sound better than your PC or something. Because it is running a single function DSP chip. BUT, not at all. It works for most of those semi-permenant non-mechanical MP3 player. This one, we got motor to spin a CD, and YOU actually can hear the distortion come out from nowhere!! Oh man, it was really irritating, I wonder why those engineer didn't notice that or they just try those ROCK AND ROLL cd or heavy metal piece during testing?? Main point here is the SOUND, we want a portable player is for the sound quality, if it is bad, don't consider of getting one.
Equalizer
Oh, this one cool. Really cool. It come with four sound equalizer, so that you can switch around rock, flat, jazz, or something. Even you can see the equalizer bar while changing the mode, the only thing I wonder is, it was a static bar picture(it doesn't MOVE at all). So the programmer just did this for filling up the entire LCD? amazing.. :(
Battery
Oh. Okay, it come with one rechargable battery. And one charger as well. For my set, the charger will not charge the battery! Even I follow the instruction book saying "please switch on your player while charging.". I really thing this is dumb or something. While the moment u switch on your player, the CD will start spinning.. and we just let it through the whole charging process?? Well, finally I use my own seperate battery charger.
The manual say I can use normal battery, well, I try mine, the player get really unstable afterall. It automatically shutdown the whole player after a minute or two playing... I assume this is sort of power voltage monitor problem, it cut off the power when it feel the voltage is not stable (COOL DESIGN!! but that is 80's technology). Engineer somehow should use some power regulator inside(I know this can be done), if the part is so voltage sensitive. And I forgot to tell that, my battery are brand new.
Anti-Shock
Yup, this one work, I tried. For normal Audio CD mode, u can choose among on or off. But for MP3 CD, it is on all the time, so it leak up some battery too. I am not sure how much power will it consume if the mode is on.
After all the testing, this long waited product doesn't seem to be satisfied. I will ask all those people who got this baby to double check those issue I listed above, it could be a fault in my unit, but it shouldn't be so many of them. :) Somehow for the price you pay, you can get a mambo-x easily with remote control. Do not rush your head into this, think carefully or might as well go down to one of the shop and experience it.
the LOOK
Ok, anyone whoever had a portable CD player should know how it should look like. The recent portable CD player is just so slim and lite, that really allow you to carry anyway you like. BUT, this SM-200C bulky and heavy is a nitemare, it is like those early 90 discman, I will think that it only fit inside a car but not into your pouch. And it look ugly too, with all cheap plastic material casing, doesn't make it look like an high tech mp3 player. Look at mambo-x or other non-cd mp3 player, their look really turn me on, that make me thing those product really belong to this computer age. :D
the INTERFACE >:(
Yeah, cool baby... I mean whoever try this thingy should keep cool and calm. with four main control button, and four function button we can run a CD with around 150 mp3 song inside. Just keep cool, tell me how u feel if u wan to listen to the only 149th song.... Yeah, it had a fast skipping function that u have to pause your current track and hold the skip button for skipping 10 song one time. But still, it is a pain. The CD loading is very SLOW, it make u want to cry each time u load a CD, it search through the whole cd, and dig out each track. You only able to start enjoying your cd as soon as it got finished(usuall abour 30sec to a minute). Well, worse still if your CD contain lots of sub folder(or directory), it make you wanna cry.
the LCD
Yeah, the LCD just good. You able to read all stuff with ID3 tag on, the coolest thing that MP3 have. It keep scrolling for artist name and song title. "but" not all ID3 tag seem to work, I try some of my CD, it somehow fail to read the ID3, and it will say "unknown....." tatata... well. I will prefer it give me at least the filename, so that I know what the heck I am playing right now. Anyway, the LCD is adequate for this mp3 CD player.
CD, CDR, CDRW
Yup, it work for all. You are lucky. :)
Sound Quality <:~~~(
Oh poor thing. Lot's of people might think that a mp3 player should sound better than your PC or something. Because it is running a single function DSP chip. BUT, not at all. It works for most of those semi-permenant non-mechanical MP3 player. This one, we got motor to spin a CD, and YOU actually can hear the distortion come out from nowhere!! Oh man, it was really irritating, I wonder why those engineer didn't notice that or they just try those ROCK AND ROLL cd or heavy metal piece during testing?? Main point here is the SOUND, we want a portable player is for the sound quality, if it is bad, don't consider of getting one.
Equalizer
Oh, this one cool. Really cool. It come with four sound equalizer, so that you can switch around rock, flat, jazz, or something. Even you can see the equalizer bar while changing the mode, the only thing I wonder is, it was a static bar picture(it doesn't MOVE at all). So the programmer just did this for filling up the entire LCD? amazing.. :(
Battery
Oh. Okay, it come with one rechargable battery. And one charger as well. For my set, the charger will not charge the battery! Even I follow the instruction book saying "please switch on your player while charging.". I really thing this is dumb or something. While the moment u switch on your player, the CD will start spinning.. and we just let it through the whole charging process?? Well, finally I use my own seperate battery charger.
The manual say I can use normal battery, well, I try mine, the player get really unstable afterall. It automatically shutdown the whole player after a minute or two playing... I assume this is sort of power voltage monitor problem, it cut off the power when it feel the voltage is not stable (COOL DESIGN!! but that is 80's technology). Engineer somehow should use some power regulator inside(I know this can be done), if the part is so voltage sensitive. And I forgot to tell that, my battery are brand new.
Anti-Shock
Yup, this one work, I tried. For normal Audio CD mode, u can choose among on or off. But for MP3 CD, it is on all the time, so it leak up some battery too. I am not sure how much power will it consume if the mode is on.
After all the testing, this long waited product doesn't seem to be satisfied. I will ask all those people who got this baby to double check those issue I listed above, it could be a fault in my unit, but it shouldn't be so many of them. :) Somehow for the price you pay, you can get a mambo-x easily with remote control. Do not rush your head into this, think carefully or might as well go down to one of the shop and experience it.
