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Insignia™ - Portable CD Player with FM Tuner and MP3 Playback - Black
Only at Best BuyThis portable CD player features an FM tuner with 10 station presets, so you can listen to your favorite stations on the go. The skip protection ensures your favorite tunes aren't interrupted.
Among the best of a dying breed
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4.0
I still like to listen to CDs in a portable environment, but there are very few small format portable CD players still on the market. In the research I have done, this unit comes as close to meeting my requirements as any I could find. It has a hold switch to lock out accidental button pushes, it includes a line-out jack to feed other devices (such as my headphone amp) along with anti-skip memory, and it is small form factor. Aspects I would like to see improved include more recessed buttons, a true mechanical off switch to save the batteries during storage, better protection of the optics, a more robust hinge, and more complete battery consumption (when the unit stops due to "low battery" the batteries still have about half of their capacity). It would have also been nice to either provide a power supply or configure it to be driven by a high-output USB supply. Even though this review raises a number of complaints, I actually am reasonably happy with the unit, and in my opinion it appears to be the best-of-breed still available.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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My Best Buy number: 0394322603
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Insignia™ - Portable CD Player with FM Tuner and MP3 Playback - Black
Only at Best BuyThis portable CD player features an FM tuner with 10 station presets, so you can listen to your favorite stations on the go. The skip protection ensures your favorite tunes aren't interrupted.
Display
Does the display show what track you are on? If so, I think I could resume an audiobook at almost the same place if I remembered or wrote down the track I stopped on. Similarly, does it show the radio station you are on?
The display shows track information when playing discs. You can certainly select a particular track and you can skip through a track. It shows the radio station frequency when operating the radio. When using the radio, the headphone cord is the antenna for the radio, based on my experience, so the radio won't work well without a cord plugged into the headphone jack.
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Insignia™ - Portable CD Player with FM Tuner and MP3 Playback - Black
Only at Best BuyThis portable CD player features an FM tuner with 10 station presets, so you can listen to your favorite stations on the go. The skip protection ensures your favorite tunes aren't interrupted.
do you have to use the ear plugs for sound? if so, then what can I purchase to be able to hear without earphones?
External speakers available?
This unit has no internal speaker; you must use headphones or some external speaker to listen. The particular unit I purchased came with a set of headphones in the package.
9 years ago
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Insignia™ - Portable CD Player with FM Tuner and MP3 Playback - Black
Only at Best BuyThis portable CD player features an FM tuner with 10 station presets, so you can listen to your favorite stations on the go. The skip protection ensures your favorite tunes aren't interrupted.
Where is the remote?!?!?
It looks like a remote did not come in the package! Did they decide not to include it anymore and also not updat the website description?
I did not receive a remote, and I do not recall one being mentioned in either the description I saw or on the packaging. The unit I received was packaged with a set of headphones.
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