Philips ACT7583 Personal Sports CD Player
From Philips
Use your Philips player anywhere your life takes you. The rugged design and splash-resistant cover keep out water, moisture, and dirt during any sporting activity. The 45-second skip protection keeps your music going as long as you can without interruptions. 3-stage Digital Dynamic Bass Boost ensures a rich, full sound throughout any workout...
- Amazon Sales Rank: #93665 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Philips
- Model: ACT758317
The Philips AT758317 personal sports CD player features a heat- and splash-resistant body and 45 seconds of ESP3 power-saving skip protection. It also comes with a three-stage digital dynamic bass boost to ensure deeper sound. Because it is CD-RW compatible, it should play most audio CDs that you have bought or have burned yourself. It offers up to 20 hours of playing time from fresh AA batteries.
Other features of the Philips AT758317 include a 1-bit digital-to-analog converter and a host of playback options, including shuffle play, 99-track programming, repeat, hold, and resume. This CD player comes with headphones, a neoprene jogging pouch, and an AC/DC adapter.
Great sporty CD player for those who like to get out...
Well, I finally got my Philips CD Player and I'll give it 5 out of 5 stars...almost. It is somehow "different" product compared to other brands... but that's why it's better.
Most noticeable difference is that it's CD-Rewriteable compatible. There is only one sentence about this in the manual, stating that it will play all kind of audio disks, including CD-R and CD-RW. I was hoping for more information, for example explaining that CDRW disk must be finalized, etc.
Does it work? Well, it all depends on the quality of your CD-Recordable drive that you used to make those CDs. If you used older CD-R drive, most likely the CD will sound like a broken record or a century old tape. All the CDs I created using old CD-R drive did not sound right. They would not play in any other portable CD player at all, but Philips at least tried to play them, which is not a solution after all. The music would slow down or speed up constantly.
Now, all CDs that I recorded using rather newer 8x CD-R drive worked just fine. You could tell no difference from original CD. Those CDs would also play in any other CD portable player as well. So what's the big deal? I guess it plays CD-RW disks and other players can't. You record music on CDRW, finalize it, play it, then reformat the disk and record new music again... so you can reuse CDs... if that's how it works. It all depends on your CD-Recordable drive. You cannot play CD-RW in most home or car stereo CD players but here you supposedly can.
Well, besides that, the player looks cool, great colors, great case. It doesn't have that boring look like other regular portables and it's not as fancy as other sport players. It is rather thicker than other models but it is a sport CD player after all... they are like that.
It has a cool lock, it has rubber plugs in openings, splash proof, it recharges batteries, it's well made, it won't break right away. It plays only for 6 hours in Power Safe Mode with regular batteries, so get the Alkaline batteries for 18 hours playback. It will even recharge them for you.
Oh, and it has nice and comfortable headphones that will never come out, and oh, there is the sports pouch as well,a nice addition.
The sound is OK, but the 3 stage Dynamic Bass Boost creates a small recognizable noise for some music, about the same with other products for that price. I would love to have a remote and alkaline batteries included in the package, for whatever added cost.
So overall, it's almost perfect depending on your needs. Don't try to find it in stores, just get it online. I couldn't find it anywhere in NYC, so I got in on Amazon. I would highly recommended it to everyone, especially to those who like the sporty look and enjoy spending their time outdoors. Enjoy!
Skip, Skip, Skip
This player skiped the first time that I went running with it. It comes with a running pouch so I figured it was the perfect player to go jogging with. It was not, so I am sending it back.
*Worked okay for 8 months ONLY
I bought this player in Jan'01. My only complaints upon receiving it was, the sound and the in-ear BUD headphones. The sound is never loud even when it's turned to the maximum level, no matter what headphones you use. The headphones hurt my ears and died in June. Then, recently (August '01) I discovered that because the headphone jack moves, the sound goes in and out. BAD. For example--I have the CD player in my backpack, playing a CD and if the headphone plug moves, which it does, it interrupts the sound. At first I thought it was my headphones, but no its the machine. All in all I'm disappointed. Great look, handy handle loop, bad earphones, LOW SOUND, and wobbly headphone jack that kills sound. My advice, check out other machines first that is unless you like a machine that only works for 8 months.
