Hi,
I am looking for a mp3 CD player with great sound quality (no need for FM). Any recommendations?
the iriver ones are good.
Irivers are ok if you don't plan to workout or even walk with them.I have a 550 that just skips even when walking with it.And others have had the same problem with it.Go for a sony or panasonic,they have better skip protection.My iriver is pretty much used at home at the desk only now.
I think you should get a sony if you want long battery life, easy navigation, and shock protection. the buffers for iriver players are slow and skip if u turn it on while walking. the onlything i have a porblem with sony cd players is that they dont have a backlight
I posted this earlier but this is the info I have sofar:
I'm working on the same thing. I've owned a few and used a few more. My current one is my rio sp250. Delicate plastic but amazing overall. Because I like it so much I was tempted to go with the sp250' oem, Iriver. The sound and firmware are great from iriver but their support seems to be lacking from other reviews. I tried panasonics but the new units were more sensitive to shock than my old rio. They had good battery life but no ff/rw in mp3. That took them off my list. The phillips midlevel unit i tried seemed pretty good with decent shock protection. But I was very impressed with the sony I tried. It doesn't have the great menu of features like the rio/iriver but I shook the snot out of it without a skip and had great battery like. Now that my wife has some sonypoints on a credit card to use it looks like I will be getting a sony. I'm looking at the dnf600, dne10, dne300, and the dnf400. The dnf600 looks great but at nearly double the points of the dnf400 just to get a cheesy clipon remote makes me wonder. Sony has one problem though, about 70 different model numbers all different sizes, battery capacity, battery type, remotes and thats just the obvious things I know about. I'm guessing that there could be big differences in interface, shock protection, and volume. Sorry I don't have a full conclusion yet but generally I say look at phillips and sony currently. Also get it with an extended warrenty credit card and at a store with an extended warrenty. You don't want to have to deal with any of these mfgs directly and the units can be delicate.
i'm gonna second that vote for a panasonic...i use mine while working out, and i'm rarely bothered by skipping. my model is also extremely durable...i've dropped it any number of times, and it's still running strong.
-sam
The Sony Walkman series
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