RCA RP2365 Personal CD Player

I decided that I needed to motivate myself to exercise, and what better way to do that than to invest in an expensive piece of portable CD player and guilt myself into doing it? So I drive myself to a Circuit City and browse the CD players and talk to the salesman about what I want: I want a lot of ESP (I am a perky runner) and I want the add-ons so I can put it in my car. Easy enough, salesman shows me this RCA CD player. I have always been prone to Sony, but I thought that that was only because they were the best marketers. So I purchase this thing.

Needless to say, guilt or not, I never ended up running with it. the most of workout this CD player ever saw was me chasing to a class, that I was late for, but it was "safely" stored in my bag. I used it mostly to drown out the sound of people in the library who weren't there to study, but to chat away (I mean really). So, you would think that this CD player would have survived more than 2 months. Not a chance!

My first complaint about it was that when you had that ESP thing on, it sucked all the juice out of your batteries in about 30 minutes. So I never had it on, which was a big waste of money in my books. Secondly, I guess because I didn't place it "gently" in my bag the latch got all screwed up. But, honestly, I am not prone to tossing my electronic equipment around (especially when I paid $80+ for it), so I don't think it was really a fault of mine.

If I ever wanted to play anything on it, after the latch got all screwed up, I had to put a heavy book on it, or sit on it (now that is NO way to treat a CD player).

The sound quality was fine, when it decided to recognize I had a CD, but most of the time the CD would spin for a good 5 minutes without playing, and then it would finally tell me there was no CD in the case.

So if you want a really expensive paperweight, buy this product. If you want to play CDs, look for another one!