Sony DFJ041CD Walkman« Portable CD Player with Tuner
Jam with a CD or the hits from the best radio stations with the D-FJ041 Walkman CD player with AM/FM tuner. Traveling or exercising with this player is easy because of its light weight and compact design. The sporty, clip-style headphones are comfortable on your ears and won't fall off when the going gets tough. With the ability to play burned CD-R/RW discs, you can also enjoy your own personalized mixes through 8 simple playback modes. For reliability, skip-free G-protection? Technology is there to ensure continuous, interruption-free playback.
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Sony DFJ041CD Walkman« Portable CD Player with Tuner Reviews
This is a very nice unit except it uses batteries real fast. I listen to books on cd and I have found this player to be very nice with the sound choices. Music sounds wonderful and I like having an am/fm radio. I don't use the ear buds.
Finally, this type of ear phone set hurts my ears almost from the very start of listening to a CD on this Walkman. While this lacks certain features that a music aficionado might want (like the ATRAC system that some CD players have), this Walkman is really a very good choice for most people including myself. Overall, music lovers will be very pleased with this affordable Walkman. I strongly suggest you purchase a better quality headset or earphones that will be more comfortable. It weighs barely more than seven ouncesgreat. I have more than one Walkman but this is the one I use most often for when I am "on the go;" it's the one I don't mind if it accidentally gets a little bit banged up over time.
The Walkman does have "playback modes" but I rarely use them so I can't comment on that. The controls also make it easy to do basic things such as adjusting the sound, starting a CD and stopping it. At first glance the controls on the Walkman itself appear slightly confusing but after about five minutes tops you learn all the important and most commonly used functions.
This Walkman uses two AA batteries and you get a good amount of play time out of the batteries if you pick good ones. The instruction manual is fairly clear as well. This Walkman by Sony offers music lovers the opportunity to listen to music files stored on a CD-R, a regular CD (of course), a CD-RWAND there's even a digital AM and FM radio tuner. (I have to take off one star for thatsorry). Unfortunately, I noticed some disappointments.
However, that's still good for this price range. The features work reliably. The controls are rather small so you need to be careful of how you touch them with your fingers. You can preset up to twenty FM stations and you can preset up to 10 AM stationsbut this won't pick up AM stations very well unless they're located relatively close to where you are. The quality of the sound is excellent; and it can handle quite a few presets for different radio stations.
I was surprised at the quality of the audio from this "old fashioned" CD player. With a set of $20 Koss Pro KTX-1 earphones it produced better sound than the sound card in my PC. Purchased it at Sears for $35. Doesn't skip at all when I stuff it into my jacket pockets and walk my dog. So did the much more expensive Sony earbuds that cost me as much as the CD player. As I expected, the earbuds that came with the player produced tinney, thin sound. Go with the inconspicuous earbuds for the street, and the Koss KTX-1 for the house.
My only criticism is the battery compartment. Maybe Sony will fix that. So far, the performance is great: ear buds are comfortable, CD player works well, controls are easy enough to navigatebut you can't do it by touch alone. I bought the Sony DFJ041CD Walkman to use when I go for a walk or do chores around the house. It's positioned so close to the hinge that, when you have to change the batteries, it's hard to get them out. I usually listen to books-on-CD, sometimes music CD's, hardly ever radio but I like to have the option.
This is not enough for portable use. If you're going to use this with an a/c adaptor as a cheap home cd player, go for it. However, battery life I got with new energizer batteries was two hours on FM radio plus 1.5 hours playing CDs.
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