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Summary: I would rate it even lower if possible
Review: This is one of the most expensive and useless CD player that I ever seen. With the anti-skip thing, both regular and MP3 CDs all SKIP every second when I put it in my bag and walk. Don't buy it. First, I thought the first one I bought was broken but the second is still the same. Again, just don't buy it.
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Summary: Hope it lasts you more than a month
Review: I bought my Rio Volt in October at Circuit City. Within a couple of weeks, and for no reason, the laser stopped working and it read "NO DISC" whenever I tried to play anything. I took it back and they replaced it. Within another couple of weeks the same thing happened. I took it back again. This third player lasted about two months, and then the remote broke and the laser stopped working again, just like the last two times, and for no reason. This time it was too long to take it back to Circuit City, so I decided to contact the manufacturer. I sent many, many emails to customer service, and was never even responded to. I called customer service on the telephone (which was NOT a toll-free number and took 30 minutes for me to get anyone on the phone.) So far, I've called 3 times. Each time I finally talk to someone, they tell me that they'll email me in 3 to 5 days giving me return instructions, and without fail, I never hear from them again. Clearly these people build an unstable product, and they make their living on getting your money and then making sure you can't get it back. An MP3 CD player is a great tool, but I would buy it from anyone but these people.
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Summary: Defective unit
Review: Out of the box, could never get it to work. I would power-up and after about 1-minute of powering-up, the display would read "No Disc". The CD never even would spin! So it was definately defective. I called sonicblue tech support (NOT TOLL-FREE) and they transferred me to customer service. Oh, I ordered a refurbished unit from the sonicblue website. And get this, they will not pay for my return shipping or the initial shipping I paid! And the thing is defective! I wasted nearly twenty bucks on returning a defective product! To top it off, it took them over a month to issue credit back to my credit card, unbelievable! All I can say is, if you got one that works and stays working, congratulations. Otherwise, if yours ever breaks down, good luck with "customer service".
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Summary: Great player, could be sturdier
Review: It's nice to be able to squeeze about 160 MP3s at 128 rate onto a data CD, and then play them on this player. LCD functions are fine, the variety of EQ presets are okay to good. Battery time is better than I expected, but not miraculous. Buttons are laid out so that I could quickly memorize how to hit most simple functions without looking.On the less than great side, the CD door and battery doors aren't too sturdy. I frequently accidentally flip open the player while it's in my jacket pocket while reaching for the skip button. And the battery door slides off all too easily, plus the compartment contains the usual annoying ribbon that supposedly holds the batteries in, but really just serves to make the door harder to close. I already cut mine off... Overall, great idea, very smartly served, with only those 2 minor complaints. This level Rio player (to me) is a good buy, for now...who knows how soon they'll revamp the product line, however.
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Summary: Love It
Review: This is a great player. I popped in a disc with 150 songs, put it in random play mode and flew from Philly to L.A. and back without repeat and without changing the batteries. Pretty sweet. Once you get used to navigating the menus it's easy to use. And it can play multi-session CDRWs (the kind that get formatted for drag and drop usage). I've seen others that don't work well with this format, but this unit comes with the software to set up your disks that way. And it perfectly reads multi directories with ease. As you scroll through the layout, you can read the directory (or album) title, and then all the song titles. It's really quite impressive. Of course, it does have flaws. Everything you've heard about the case is true. It's horrible. And I hate that you have to hit play to get it started and then select the mode you want. So even random mode always starts with track 1 (not so bad, though). And I do find the symbols to define which mode you have the player in (random 1 directory, random all directories, repeat 1, repeat all 1 dir, repeat all all dir, etc) completely cryptic. I also wish I could buy another without all the extras. I don't like to wear ear buds, and the remote can be awkward (the clip doesn't really hold it onto anything very well). But if you think about it, those are somewhat nit picky complaints. Overall, I love it and am planning to buy another for my wife.
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Summary: Great sound and features (Headphones NOT included)
Review: This player has some great features not mentioned in other reviews. My unit came with the remote, which is not attached to headphones. Instead it can have headphones plugged into it which is great, you can choose the phones of your choice and still have the remote. The hold switch for locking the buttons is repeated on both the side of the unit and on the remote and they work independently. I compared it to my wife's RCA portable CD/MP3 player and the overall sound is much better, the RCA sounds real good, the Riovolt sounds really great. The Riovolt does not have the background hiss of the amp like the RCA. The startup and track changes are much faster on both standard CD's and MP3's. I could rate this unit 5 stars if it came with headphones. The peice of junk which is supposed to stay in your ears with nothing more than skin friction does not deserve being called headphones, they are garbage and that is where they are now. If you buy this unit do not forget to buy a pair of headphones.
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Summary: The best mp3/cd player ever made
Review: this is the best , it have a hight quality sound , it's easy to use and its simple .
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Summary: Good but big
Review: I got the RioVOLT as a gift and I use it almost every day. It has great sound and can hold a ton of MP3s, I average about 150 a CD. It does everything I want but it does have a few faults:
1) It does skip. If the MP3 is not preloaded into the memory the MP3 player will skip, even when walking.
2) It is BULKY. I can't fit it in any of my pockets and I sometimes end up carrying a book bag just for my RioVOLT.
Despite the drawbacks, I would buy this myself if I had to, although I may look into getting the 250 for the extra few dollars.
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Summary: RIO VOLT SP100
Review: I LOVE THIS CD PLAYER, THE SOUND IS PERFECT! I USE IT WHILE ON THE TREADMILL AND EVEN WHEN I RUN IT DOESN'T SKIP AND I AM 220 POUNDS! SO, IF YOU WANT A CD PLAYER THAT WILL PLAY ANYTHING AND NOT SKIP YOU WILL LOVE THIS PRODUCT!
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Summary: Excellent piece of hardware
Review: I bought the riovolt kinda buy accident in the sense that the lesser MP3 cd player that i wanted to buy was out of stock and so I was so desperate for one I forked out the extra amount of money to get one. What a stroke of luck the riovolt is probably one of the best MP3 cd players in the world if not the best. the ability to upgarde has been a godsent as soome of the originally quibles that I have had with the product have thus been eliminated, such as the freakishly long load times and the fact that is was only able to play the first 255 tracks on th CD (i know I am greedy). That said the riovolt is not perfect. It is qiute big bulky and cumbersome and I'm not sure if it is my particular riovolt but the baterries sure as heck do not last for the advertised 15 hours that is for sure 3 hours is a lot more like it. Its abilty to play WMA is what I think sents apart for the gaggle of other MP3 cd players out there as WMA are of better quality on a qualty to memory ratio, with MP3 also is its ablity to upgade. The remote is not particularly the best designed piece of kit in the world and there is a bit of crackle sometimes which also puts me off it. The reason why I gave it 4/5 instead of 5/5 is because the Napa MP3- cd players have video cd capabilties and this does not also the amount of time between upgrades is quite long. I hope that the next firmware upgrade allows real audio files to be played then the riovolt would truley the undisputed king of mp3 CD players
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