Sony Walkman D-CJ506CK Personal CD Player
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- Supported Formats: MP3
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skip-free, slim and versatile
Pros
no skipping, slim, car accessories, battery life
Cons
song navigation tools can be frustrating
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
If you can accept the trade-off of great skip protection, low weight and slim height for average song navigation, this model is an excellent value.
All the other reviewers have said it, but it bears repeating: this unit does not skip due to external disturbances. I've tested it for a month by placing the unity on my car's console between the seats, where I can feel vibrations if I place my hand, for 30 minutes at a time. I've tested it going on power walks. I've tested it on my treadmill walks, inside a fanny pack, both strapped to the treadmill's handlebars and to my waist. Even on the lower of the two levels of protection, the vibrations haven't fazed it. The times it *has* skipped, I'm willing chalk up to defective spots on the CD, and even that didn't derail the player; it did its best and kept playing past the spots.
The sound from the headphones supplied with the unit is very good; from earbuds (Sony brand), the sound is excellent. My friends who have listened to mp3s recorded at 160 Kbps on this unit cannot tell if they're listening to a regular CD or mp3s. The sound from my car's stereo (factory OEM) is good, which is to be expected, given the nature of the transmission from the unit through the cassette adapter supplied with the unit.
A nifty feature on the unit is the Hold button, which prevents any other button from working. I use it regularly to prevent accidental activation while I've stuffed the walkman into my briefcase.
A pleasant, though inconsistent, feature is the track memory/pause/stop button. As long as the same CD remains in the unit, it will resume playing from the point on a CD where it left off when you last stopped it, even when you shut it off. My experience is that this feature works about 90% of the time.
The other major pleasure of this unit is its light weight (10 oz w/ batteries) and relatively slim profile (about 1 inch thick.) This means that when my girlfriend and I go out in the summer, she's willing to put the unit in her purse when we leave the car, and I don't worry about exposing it to broiling heat.
The trade-off of this slim design is difficulty in locating any particular song on a disc. If you're hankering to hear the 50th song on a disc crammed with mp3 files (and a CD can hold 150 mp3 files recorded at 128 kpbs), you must press the song advance button *49* times. Of course, if you don't know exactly where on your crammed disc the song you want is, you don't know in advance how many times you'll have to press that bloody button. To remedy this, Sony would have had to use a larger display, capable of showing multiple song/file titles, and added the ability to scroll through a few of the titles at a time. This, of course, would have added weight and bulk.
My most important criterion for judging a portable mp3-capable player was skip protection, and this unit shines in that area. If you can accept the trade-off of weight-height for song navigation, this model is an excellent value. If you have to have the navigation features, the Rio Volt SP250 is showing up a lot on ebay.
The sound from the headphones supplied with the unit is very good; from earbuds (Sony brand), the sound is excellent. My friends who have listened to mp3s recorded at 160 Kbps on this unit cannot tell if they're listening to a regular CD or mp3s. The sound from my car's stereo (factory OEM) is good, which is to be expected, given the nature of the transmission from the unit through the cassette adapter supplied with the unit.
A nifty feature on the unit is the Hold button, which prevents any other button from working. I use it regularly to prevent accidental activation while I've stuffed the walkman into my briefcase.
A pleasant, though inconsistent, feature is the track memory/pause/stop button. As long as the same CD remains in the unit, it will resume playing from the point on a CD where it left off when you last stopped it, even when you shut it off. My experience is that this feature works about 90% of the time.
The other major pleasure of this unit is its light weight (10 oz w/ batteries) and relatively slim profile (about 1 inch thick.) This means that when my girlfriend and I go out in the summer, she's willing to put the unit in her purse when we leave the car, and I don't worry about exposing it to broiling heat.
The trade-off of this slim design is difficulty in locating any particular song on a disc. If you're hankering to hear the 50th song on a disc crammed with mp3 files (and a CD can hold 150 mp3 files recorded at 128 kpbs), you must press the song advance button *49* times. Of course, if you don't know exactly where on your crammed disc the song you want is, you don't know in advance how many times you'll have to press that bloody button. To remedy this, Sony would have had to use a larger display, capable of showing multiple song/file titles, and added the ability to scroll through a few of the titles at a time. This, of course, would have added weight and bulk.
My most important criterion for judging a portable mp3-capable player was skip protection, and this unit shines in that area. If you can accept the trade-off of weight-height for song navigation, this model is an excellent value. If you have to have the navigation features, the Rio Volt SP250 is showing up a lot on ebay.
