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Summary: A very impressive player!
Review: I bought one for my daughter on a vacation trip to florida and I used it with a car fm transmitter the unit was on the passenger seat and it played flawlessly no skipping at all, the sound quality is very good.The unit could only read 85 mp3's on my recorded cd, when I got home I shortened all my mp3 files to a maximum 25 characters and I burned a new cd at only 2x speed. Now the unit reads 224 mp3 files on my new cd and plays all the tunes with superb sound quality.I only give it 4 stars because it has small flaws that are not important for me.I recommend it!
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Summary: Sorry but not a great choice
Review: Ok. Pros and Cons1. ... covering- I dropped it one time and it stoped reading Mp3 Based Cds 2. ...! 3. Need a Burner on ur computer BEWARE YOU CANT USE THIS THING IF YOU DONT HAVE A BURNER! 4. No little..(charectors)..in your Song titles. Doesnt Read the file if you have these! 5. Scrolls through REALLY slow takes a long time to get to High Numbers in your play list 6. Horrible SOund HORRIBLE DONT BELIEVE THE OTHERS. I take this on my bus and i cant hear the darn thing. 7. Sound Quality is ok. 8. Need Quality cds 9. Of course the Ear phones are horrible and hurt my ears. 10. Want Something good?? Intel Pocket Concert is the bomb mp3 Player. Overall dont get it not worth your precious money
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Summary: Good but got some bugs
Review: I buy this mp3 player in december last year, but 5 months later i discover some bugs (i primaly use it in the car stereo), it takes too much time to start playing mp3's, the resume feature don't works all the time, it skips some files in playing, from time to time an error ocurs and it reset the play to the first song of the first album, in the car is kind of dificult to operate it, if you want a mp3 for the car i recomend you one with remote control, besides the ESP works fine even in rocky roads
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Summary: performs well
Review: i recently bought the philps expanium and it works great! the only problem i encountered was the inability to play properly, cd's that were still open. i recommend closing your mp3 cd's before playing them. other than this little problem, its perfect. the resume function is great, and the accessories are wonderful. the manufacturers of the riovolt should take note and do the same instead of charging for the cassette adapter to be bought separately
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Summary: This one rates 5 stars plus!
Review: I have been waiting to buy a CD player that plays both audioand MP3 files. Glad I waited for this one! I bought mine fromAmazon.com ... Greatest buy I ever made on sound equipment! Works like a charm and sounds great too. Plays all my MP3 CDs with no problem. Sounds great on the car stero using the supplied car adapter kit. The supplied earphones were not very loud, but once I changed to my own headset the sound problem was solved. Sounds terrific. I liked it so much ... I bought a second one for my daughter. And she loves hers, too!
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Summary: Definitely impressive!
Review: I'll admit that I had difficulties right out of the box, but I would later find that this was due to my trying to play a slightly defective CDRW disc which had been giving me problems in other applications anyway. Once I burned a new copy of that layout on a CDR disc, the eXpanium loaded it and started playing it with no problems at all, and none of the three discs I've made so far [on CDR] have given me any trouble. The first two discs I burned are in ISO9660 format, but for the third disc, I tried using Joliet format just to see how the eXpanium would handle it. It reads that one perfectly too. The time required to scan the disc before playing does not seem excessive to me at all, and the sound quality is actually better than I expected. The anti-skip features are every bit as amazing as other reviewers here have claimed - I've had my eXpanium for a week now and still haven't been able to make it skip, and that's certainly not for lack of trying. When it's being used as a road trip jukebox - a task for which it seems especially well-suited - it would take a mighty rough road [off-road?] to make it hiccup at all. The skip protection alone makes it the perfect companion for a long drive. My only real complaints with the eXpanium are its total lack of a title/ID3 tag display, lack of a "time remaining" display [it shows elapsed time only], and its inability to search through an MP3 track [the <</>> keys simply go to the previous/next song in MP3 mode]. If you can live with a display which shows only track numbers, elapsed time, and some small icons, then by all means, get the eXpanium. I knew about the display before I bought my eXpanium, but I bought it anyway after careful research and comparison shopping. In short: Rather basic controls, poor display, good sound, thoroughly incredible skip protection.
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Summary: Good MP3 player for a now-Great price!
Review: I purchased this player off Amazon back in December forChristmas time and have used it pretty much every day for the past 3months. All I have to say is... this is the best invention ever made,almost as cool as those post-it notes you can bookmark pageswith! Seriously though, the Expanium has worked in every case forme. I have never had it skip one time on me using any stream of MP3 orCD, and it plays all formats and all CD brands. You just have tohave patience to really accept and appreciate what Philips did forMP3-CD players that preceeded it. This was the first-gen player, andstill I have yet to find a player with any different features than theExpanium (besides ID3 tags being present... which I have yet to findone at an affordable price). Pros are the great playback and awesomesound, even in my 1996 Saturn. Though it is difficult to find a songin the dark or in the car at night, just turn a light on. Lights wereinvented for times when you can't see something, youknow.... Overall, the player is everything I personally wanted. I'venever complained once about the player. Yeah it doesn't have ID3 tagsor search within an MP3, but that is really no big deal. There are fargreater tragedies in life than that. I made 7 CDs with roughly 170songs each, and I just take the time to memorize the order of thefolders and the albums that I put in each separate folder. If yougot 150 bills, shell them out. If you want to wait and think somethingbetter will come, be my guest. But, it was $... well spent in myopinion.
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Summary: Great MP3/CD Player
Review: After reading most of the reviews on this web site for this MP3/CD player, we bought one for my husband and he loves it. I ended up liking it so much that I just bought one for myself to have in my car. Yes, the display is dark and a little hard to read, but since I know what's on my CDs I really don't need to see a display. As far as sound goes, regular audio cds or audio cds burned to the same audio cd format sounds great. Some MP3s don't sound as good, but I expected that and it's not because of the player (they don't sound any better on anything else either). It rarely skips in the car. In fact, it didn't skip when I would have expected it due to bad roads. It seems to handle folders fine. Sure, you don't get the name of the folder (they're numbered), just be sure to print a list of your folders and songs to keep track. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to have the flexibility to play both MP3s and audio cds.
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Summary: Great product for spoken word audio
Review: I am impressed with the Philips EXP103. While I love the player's music sound quality, and think it sounds great, I really bought the Expanuim to listen to spoken word audio (mostly OTR). Of the mainstream .mp3 CD players on the market today, the Expanium seems to support the widest variety of bitrates. As most of my files are under 128 Kpbs (usually 32/22) this is about the only major-vendor .mp3 CD player that will play all my files. The player doesn't skip (especially at the bitrates I'm using), it sounds great in the car (though the car cassette adapter and included headphones are poor quality- replace them if you want great sound!), and I now have the ability to listen to 30 or 40 hours worth of spoken word audio before having to change my CD. The reasons this product didn't receive 5 stars? I have an average of 60 or 70 files on each CD. It would be nice if Philips had included Id3 tagging so I could see track info. In the car it's not an issue (I don't want to be looking at a display anyway), but it would be a nice feature to have. I also miss the ability to resume an .mp3 track. As most of my files are at least 25 minutes long I hate the fact that I can't pick up in the middle or a track. I also wish the Expanium had upgradeable firmware like the AVC Soul player. It would be nice if this player was "future-proof." Despite some missing features I'm convinced that the Philips Expanium is the best .mp3 CD player on the mass market, and, especially if you listen to spoken word audio, you won't be dissapointed with this product.
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Summary: Excellent MP3 player without ID3 tag support.
Review: I was looking for a car MP3 CD player and was really disappointed with AIWA CDC-MP3 reviews. So I decided to purchase a portable MP3 CD device and have occasionally found the Expanium. Now I'm a happy owner of that wonderful thing with a crystal clear sound and a car kit. It loads MP3 CDs pretty fast - it takes only 26 seconds to load a directory of a CD with 220 tracks. Controls are very convinient, especially for the in-car use while driving. On the other hand, Expanium has a completely unreadable display. So if you're looking for a MP3 CD player to be used during car trips Expanium is the excellent choice.
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