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:)Good investment over-all. I have been using this product purchased from Amazon since early 2004. So far I have a good experience with this, it plays all kinds of audio cds, even the scratched ones.It drains the batteries very fast though, thank God that I have rechargable batteries.
Anti-shock seems fine. You will experience low-voltage symptoms almost immediately, and will end up spending ages waiting for your disks to load. Make sure that the battery door is fully engaged.
This unit seems to need 3 volts. Overall, if you stick with MP3, and use disposable alkalines, the iMP-50 is a handy device. I've been using the iMP-50 off-and-on for about a year. Here are some suggestions:1. The NiMh cells will lose additional charge between use. Battery-life when playing uncompressed audio is pretty bad, and gets worse if you skip tracks and swap disks.2.
The default 10 seconds for CDs is good enough for driving on rough roads. When new, the door can "click" closed, but still not be latched. You may have problems reading some CD-R audio that work fine on other players. 4. Remember, this unit is not built to handle frequent cell-swapping. Every CD-R I've bought from performers is unreadable, though copies I've burned myself work ok. Stick with disposable alkalines.
Check it visually.3. Use external power for playing standard CDs. Fully charged NiMh start with a lower voltage, and you won't get much play-time. 2.
Still using v1.00 firmware that shipped with it. Does MP3 ID3 tags, display a little small, but ok. Seems to handle any bit rate. But has a +20 track feature that I should use instead.
Use 4 2000mAH NiMH batts from WalMart. Takes a little while at first track, maybe 12 secs, but ok after that. Ear buds that come with it are ok, but plan on buying something else to suit your ears/taste.Also got Sony CD Walkman belt case CD Case3, about 10 bucks. Swap out 2 at a time. iRock Beamit, $30 bucks Rat Shack, sends to any FM radio. Had it for about 9 months now.Remembers where you are in 10 cds, which what I need for audiobooks.
No AC ps, but has car stuff. A pairlasts about 5 days at about an 1 1/2 hour a day. No problems with mine, except that it occasionally locks up when I fast forward too fast several tracks at a time. Buttons are little hard to figure at first, but after a few days no problem.
it's a great price and the sound is good quality. the buttons are different sizes- so it's easy to feel out what button you want to push. but it's still a little awkward. i got this cd player for my half hour commute to work. i just took away 2 stars because it's not very utilitarian for road warriors. to change cd's you have to turn the player over on it's back. It's a great price, but the design is inconvienant. the battery cover opens quit frequently and subsequently ends up scratching the hell out of cd's- because the unit continues to spin the cd.however the battery life is much better than my old cd player that was about 13 years old.
It seemed to have a lot of options as far as the display & flexibility to handle both mp3 & wma format (although I never use/have any wma)Build wise, it feels cheap. Sound quality is fine, but it seems to have major trouble reading discs that play flawlessly in my other players.
So in summing up this player.I guess I got what I paid for. You can hear that skriiitching noise is it tries to find it's way.I only used it a few times on batteries, and as reported by many others, 16 hours per set playing mp3 is a dream (or better yet, a myth) I had updated the firmware from the iRiver website, but did not notice any improvements.
I bought this thru Amazon & with rebate, it only came out to around $30. Major hassle to reload discs.
A cheap player. The main useage for this unit is at work , hooked to an ac adapter & a set of Monsoon speakers.
The door (which is on the bottom, and ends up being much more of a nuisance that I originally thought it would be)moves around on it's hinges.
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