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Summary: What?!?
Review: This is by far the best CD player on the market...until the day it dies...I was showing someone how great the CD player is, and when I went to play the CD, it wouldn't play...I got this CD player for Xmas, and its already broken...
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Summary: My first MP3/CD Player, and a heck of a good one.
Review: I have had my SP250 for over a week now, and have had no troubles with it, though of course that is not long enough for such a generalization. As a university student, I find this player great for walking to and from class, and for other travelling needs. I just burn a 700MB CD-R full of my MP3s, and generally set it for shuffle all, and I am set for a while. It is definitely feature-rich, and the earbud phones it comes with are adequate, though I'm no audiophile, so my standards are fairly average in that respect. The rechargable NiMH batteries are great too, as they do not develop charge memory, so I can just charge them overnight when I think they are starting to need it, and without having to discharge them completely first. It might have been nice had they included a remote w/ lcd screen rather than selling it seperately, but that's just me being greedy. There are some smaller players on the market, but the SP250 is still quite reasonably sized, so that I just put it in my jacket pocket or elsewhere. Overall, an excellent player with loads of capacity thanks to its format.
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Summary: Nice Features BUT NOT DURABLE
Review: I bought this product thinking that all my music needs were finally solved. and at first they were. the player has a tuner, plays mp3's, and CD's, plus it has almost every single added feature one could imagine. But what i quickly found was it was a piece of Junk. the first tip off was the [inexpensive] headphones it came with. It actually comes with two sets, a fold-up over the head design which was of really poor quality, and a pair of ear buds which were tolerable. One would think that by focusing on one set they could have come up with a quality design. Next was the tuner reception, which in a normal, outdoor, urban environment worked fine, but when brought into a tunnel or subway system lost its signal much sooner then other walkman stlye player i've used. then last, it stopped reading mp3 encoded CD-R discs. at first it just started jumping to the next song in the middle of a song, and then it just plain stopped reading the discs. I belive the cause of this was "rough use", as in walking briskly on my daily commute with the player in my pocket. I've since returned the product and will probably go back to my old walkman until they start making durable players for "active" lifelstyles.
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Summary: I had reservations... But no more!!!
Review: So far, everything that I have asked of this CD/MP3 player has been met. I had read previous reviews of the flaws but so far I have found them to be minimal. Flaws: yeah, the manual sucks. The on line manual is better but not complete (I have suggestions). The secondary headphones (non-earbuds) are worthless (why do they send them?). Earbuds are not bad. Quality headphones give you an experience! Anti-skip quality has been flawless (so far). I've worked in the yard shoveling, poring cement and landscaping without a skip yet (I'm still working on it). In my opinion, excluding the previously mentioned flaws, this is an exceptional mp3 player. With the downloadable firmware update, recharchable batteries (the recharge gives you the ability to charge, uncharge and then charge or cancel) playlist capabilities (which give you the ability to download Winzip playlists), yadda, yadda, yadda. This is a quality unit and I like it. It is well worth the price (IMHO).
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Summary: MY OPINION.
Review: Well my opinion is that this is a fantastic portable player. I mean it plays CDs, MP3s, and FM Tuner it's got everything. A lot of reviews I read talk about some weird things that didn't occur when I bought it. Its's pretty easy to use, all you have to do to play MP3s is copy the files onto a blank CD, a 700MB blank CD can hold up to about 160 songs. You don't really have a limit like the other MP3 players where you have to hook up to your computer. You just have to burn the songs onto a CD and it works fine. The rechargable batteries are great just as long as you charge it for a couple hours. The only bad part of the RioVolt is that...... actually there isn't really a bad part of it. GO BUY IT! ITS WORTH IT, TRUST ME!=) Happy Customer,
Danny
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Summary: The only player you need
Review: Riovolt is THE MP3 player to own. I used to have a HipZip from Iomega which used 40mb Click! disks. It was cool and everything, but it only held about an hour worth of music at the most. But with the SP250, storage is not an issue at all. This is especailly true if you get a chance to convert your mp3 collection into WMA format. The battery life in this device is not the best in the class, I averaged about 8 to 9 hours per charge but it does come with a pair of high quality rechargable batteries and the charger. It also has the FM tuner feature which I rarely use, but it's a great thing to have nevertheless. Well, I guess what I'm trying to say is, you get what you pay for - if you really what a great MP3 play, the SP250 is the Player for you.
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Summary: Dont run with this ...
Review: the sp250 seems to be a very good cd/mp3 player ... if you dont want to run with it that is. With mp3 playback, it wont skip while the mp3 is playing, that is if it is loaded OK. If you are jogging with it and once a mp3 track is over, and the next one is trying to load, you better not be moving to fast. The sp250 loads the mp3 into its memory first, so if the mp3 is playing, it wont skip. If its trying to load, just make sure the unit is still. I thought it is pretty ..., because a cheap cd player with anti-skip works better if you want to run with it. But this unit is great if you want to do anything as long as it is not moving.
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Summary: Worked good for a couple months then..........
Review: The RioVolt has great accessories but they are no use for a player that no longer works. My player took no hard jolts or hits but after 45 days it just quit playing CD's....any CD's. The FM tuner works but that's it. I purchased it at Best Buy and their customer support is equal to that of Sonic Blue's.....very poor. I will never buy another Sonic Blue product and whatever I buy to replace it won't be coming from Best Buy.
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Summary: A MUST HAVE!!
Review: I'm not sure if I can write words enough to express how happy that I am with this product. I love it!
O.K. here's the good and bad stuff:
The sound is fabulous, I also bought a car kit and it sounds just as great if it was my own CD player.
It's a little slow at start up (at least 5-15 sec), but that tends to happen if you have more than 100 mp3's on a CD.
I love the fact that it can list every song you have on your CD-R/RW sometimes it lists regular CD's too.
The scanning features are fantastic.
I play a lot of mp3's and that's great because it has a memory, so if you have to turn it off, it'll pick up where you left off and sometimes (I stress sometimes), if you take it out, play something else, put the cd you had in before, it'll remember where you left off too. Also the batteries are rechargeable, I use this at work (10hr days) I haven't bought batteries for this yet.... it took me about a couple of days to figure all the whistles and bells but overall I'm glad to have this... so far 3 other people I recommend this to have bought it.
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Summary: Just stopped
Review: This is a very nice MP3-player. When it works. After 1 (!!!) day it just stopped. Completely, without any warning. Shouldn't be happening with a product that costs twice the price of a normal cd-player.
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