Sony Walkman D-CJ01 Personal CD Player
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- CD-R/CD-RW Playback: CD-R/CD-RW
- Bass Boost: With Bass Boost
- Anti Skip Buffer: G-Protection By Sony
- Supported Formats: MP3
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2nd Generation: Ready for prime time.
Pros
Battery Life Anti-Skip
Cons
No Flashable Firmware
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
The battery life and anti-skip protection alone are worth the cash.
Greetings from North Dakota, frozen wasteland of the United States. The amazing thing is that my Sony D-CJ01 has survived long enough for me to write a review about it.
After owning this for a while, I've noticed one clear thing. This thing does not skip. I use it for walking, jogging, attached it to a vacumn cleaner while cleaning. The G-Protection which first started as a fancy buzzword for anti-skip is in a league all its' own. This is the *first* cd player that I have seen or owned that has this level of skip protection on it.
Which leads me to the next rave I have about this. The battery life is insane. I use this every day. I am active and jostling it the entire time I'm using it. I have replaced batteries once since I bought it three weeks ago. Considering anti-skip used to eat batteries alive, this is quite the accomplishment. One battery replacement in three weeks is noteworthy in itself.
MP3 Playback is what you would expect. It takes a little bit for the player to spin up and cache the first chunk of the next song. If you're listening to an amazingly well mixed cd (NIN-The Fragile) expect some audible gaps in between songs.
Sound quality is quite impressive. Any heavy metal fan used to listening to poorly mixed cd's should buy this. Setting the bass level up one or two notches picks up the entire range of sound. CD's that once sounded abysmal, now sound great, lots of punch and bass.
I've read a lot about distortion when increasing bass settings or volume. I only have a problem where the bass is mixed incredibly high to begin with. Most cd's are mastered fairly flat as they are anticipating portable or stereo usage with varying mix levels. Yet again, buy a good pair of headphones and you will be fine. I bought some collapseable Phillips that work great.
Finally the down side. You would figure that Sony in a second generation MP3 Player would have included flashable firmware. This is so you can upgrade to new audio formats and etc. This limits you to the normal MP3 encoding rates used now.
Consider this though, if you have burnt your MP3's at 128KB onto a cd-r(w) then they are going to stay at that quality forever. You can't convert from one lossy format to another without loss in quality. So, as much as I dislike not having flashable firmware, I'm not losing sleep over it. I already have around 200 albums in 128KB MP3's. Chances are I won't need another MP3 player for quite some time.
After owning this for a while, I've noticed one clear thing. This thing does not skip. I use it for walking, jogging, attached it to a vacumn cleaner while cleaning. The G-Protection which first started as a fancy buzzword for anti-skip is in a league all its' own. This is the *first* cd player that I have seen or owned that has this level of skip protection on it.
Which leads me to the next rave I have about this. The battery life is insane. I use this every day. I am active and jostling it the entire time I'm using it. I have replaced batteries once since I bought it three weeks ago. Considering anti-skip used to eat batteries alive, this is quite the accomplishment. One battery replacement in three weeks is noteworthy in itself.
MP3 Playback is what you would expect. It takes a little bit for the player to spin up and cache the first chunk of the next song. If you're listening to an amazingly well mixed cd (NIN-The Fragile) expect some audible gaps in between songs.
Sound quality is quite impressive. Any heavy metal fan used to listening to poorly mixed cd's should buy this. Setting the bass level up one or two notches picks up the entire range of sound. CD's that once sounded abysmal, now sound great, lots of punch and bass.
I've read a lot about distortion when increasing bass settings or volume. I only have a problem where the bass is mixed incredibly high to begin with. Most cd's are mastered fairly flat as they are anticipating portable or stereo usage with varying mix levels. Yet again, buy a good pair of headphones and you will be fine. I bought some collapseable Phillips that work great.
Finally the down side. You would figure that Sony in a second generation MP3 Player would have included flashable firmware. This is so you can upgrade to new audio formats and etc. This limits you to the normal MP3 encoding rates used now.
Consider this though, if you have burnt your MP3's at 128KB onto a cd-r(w) then they are going to stay at that quality forever. You can't convert from one lossy format to another without loss in quality. So, as much as I dislike not having flashable firmware, I'm not losing sleep over it. I already have around 200 albums in 128KB MP3's. Chances are I won't need another MP3 player for quite some time.
