Koss CDP-1740A Personal CD Player with 40 Seconds of Anti-Skip Protection (Translucent Blue)

Koss CDP-1740A Personal CD Player with 40 Seconds of Anti-Skip Protection (Translucent Blue)

Koss CDP-1740A Personal CD Player with 40 Seconds of Anti-Skip Protection (Translucent Blue)

Product Description
Amazon.com Review
With its sleek icy blue looks and lightweight construction, the Koss CDP1740A portable CD player is a pleasure to use. If you're looking for a relatively inexpensive yet well-made and functional portable CD player, look no further.

In our tests, this Koss CD player performed very well. The digital bass boost system (DBBS) does a great job of kicking the bass frequencies up a bit, and it can be switched to remain active at all times. The headphones are satisfactory, though they tend to distort a bit at high volumes.

Koss asserts that its new ASP antiskip protection provides 40 seconds of skip-free music. While the antiskip protection is very good, we found its reliability depends on the amount of disturbance the unit receives. When we ran with the unit in our tests, it occasionally skipped but soon recovered. The button for the antiskip protector is on the top of the unit, along with the other main controls (play, stop, fast-forward, rewind, program, and mode). Unlike the DBBS function, the antiskip function resets when the unit is opened or stopped. We would have preferred if this function remained activated until it was shut off manually, so that we could stop a CD then resume playing with the antiskip still online.

The only other drawback we found with the CDP1740A is the lack of a resume function. That means that if you stop a disc, then hit the play button again, the CD will begin from the first track. That small annoyance aside, this Koss CD player is well made and fun to use. Though it does not have every function we ideally like to see, it does offer good sound quality as well as many features usually found only in more expensive players. --David Lavin

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Product Description:
With its sleek looks and lightweight construction, the Koss CDP1740 portable CD player is a pleasure to use. If you're looking for a relatively inexpensive yet well-made and functional portable CD player, look no further. The digital bass boost system (DBBS) does a great job of kicking the bass frequencies up, and it can be switched to remain active at all times. The new ASP antiskip protection provides 40 seconds of skip-free music. This Koss CD player is well-made and fun to use. It does offer good sound quality as well as many features usually found only in more expensive players.

Koss CDP-1740A Personal CD Player with 40 Seconds of Anti-Skip Protection (Translucent Blue)
Koss CDP-1740A Personal CD Player with 40 Seconds of Anti-Skip Protection (Translucent Blue)
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • An OK player that has some flaws...
  • Terrible
  • Cool looks, doesnt work tho...
  • Horrible
  • POS
 Koss CDP-1740A Personal CD Player with 40 Seconds of Anti-Skip Protection (Translucent Blue)

Manufacturer: Koss
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Accessories:
  1. Energizer E91BP-4 AA Batteries (4-Pack)
  2. Skipdoctor CD Repair Kit
  3. Motorized SkipDoctor by Digital Innovations (Model 1013000)
  4. Sony MDR-G57G S2 Sports Street Style Headphones with Reflective Ear Piece
  5. Sony SRS-T55 Folding Travel Speaker with 2-Way Power Supply

Product Features:
  • Personal CD player supports audio CDs, plus CD-R/RW discs
  • 40 seconds of anti-skip protection
  • Six-digit LCD display offers track and time info
  • Program up to 24 tracks with program play mode
  • Included headphones match color of CD player

ASIN: B00002CEX9

Amazon.com Review

With its sleek icy blue looks and lightweight construction, the Koss CDP1740A portable CD player is a pleasure to use. If you're looking for a relatively inexpensive yet well-made and functional portable CD player, look no further.

In our tests, this Koss CD player performed very well. The digital bass boost system (DBBS) does a great job of kicking the bass frequencies up a bit, and it can be switched to remain active at all times. The headphones are satisfactory, though they tend to distort a bit at high volumes.

Koss asserts that its new ASP antiskip protection provides 40 seconds of skip-free music. While the antiskip protection is very good, we found its reliability depends on the amount of disturbance the unit receives. When we ran with the unit in our tests, it occasionally skipped but soon recovered. The button for the antiskip protector is on the top of the unit, along with the other main controls (play, stop, fast-forward, rewind, program, and mode). Unlike the DBBS function, the antiskip function resets when the unit is opened or stopped. We would have preferred if this function remained activated until it was shut off manually, so that we could stop a CD then resume playing with the antiskip still online.

The only other drawback we found with the CDP1740A is the lack of a resume function. That means that if you stop a disc, then hit the play button again, the CD will begin from the first track. That small annoyance aside, this Koss CD player is well made and fun to use. Though it does not have every function we ideally like to see, it does offer good sound quality as well as many features usually found only in more expensive players. --David Lavin

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Amazon.com Product Description

The attractive CDP1740A portable CD player from Koss has a 40-second memory buffer, so you won't have to worry about CDs skipping while you're walking, running, or bicycling.

The CDP1740A has a blue transparent lid with control functions positioned in the center, where they're easily accessible. The player has a 6-digit LCD, which displays track, minutes, and seconds.

The dynamic bass boost system (DBBS) adds punch to lower frequencies, and you can program the CDP1740ACP to play songs in a specific sequence. You can also repeat tracks and play songs in random order.

This unit comes with stereo headphones and an AC/DC adapter.

Product Description

With its sleek looks and lightweight construction, the Koss CDP1740 portable CD player is a pleasure to use. If you're looking for a relatively inexpensive yet well-made and functional portable CD player, look no further. The digital bass boost system (DBBS) does a great job of kicking the bass frequencies up, and it can be switched to remain active at all times. The new ASP antiskip protection provides 40 seconds of skip-free music. This Koss CD player is well-made and fun to use. It does offer good sound quality as well as many features usually found only in more expensive players.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars An OK player that has some flaws..........2003-08-03

I bought this player a long time ago; it served me well but there were a few noticable flaws. Cheap headphones broke rather too soon. The most frastrating, however, is trying to forward the tracks (FF button activates programming mode) and turn the player off without taking the CD out (double cliking the stop button turns the player off about one it ten attempts). The batteries also are used up rather quickly. If you use it sparingly, it will do, but if you are a hardcore music lover - settle for something more expensive.

1 out of 5 stars Terrible.......2002-12-21

Wow, I see since I bought this unit there have been lots of people with the same troubles I had. I will simply add to the chorus of voices who have said:

1) Eats batteries like mad.
2) Within about a month of buying the unit the buttons stopped working properly. The reverse button advanced tracks, stop would often switch modes, etc. ABSOLUTELY FRUSTRATING
3) The anti-skip protection did not work very well. I got nothign like 40 seconds out of the skip protection and this is just holding the unit flat while walking at a moderate pace.

I was extremely dissapointed with this player. Mine finally just stoppped working one day...

2 out of 5 stars Cool looks, doesnt work tho..........2002-09-01

I bought this same CD player a couple of years ago but I found out that was a big mistake. It started out working really well, and i thought all the negative reviews were wrong. Then after about a week the headphones just snapped as i went to put them on... That's not too big a deal cuz I had others, but about a week later all the buttons got messed up. For example the FF RW buttons switched jobs and so did others. It was really confusing and made it impossible to do anything other than just let the CD play, altho it somehow got put in a random order and the thing to stop that broke. A couple days later, the thing just quit. I tried new batteries but they didnt help. I never dropped it or anything... If u can cough up 15 more dollars buy the cool Cd, CD-R, CD-RW, mp3 thing the have on the site.

1 out of 5 stars Horrible.......2002-08-09

the buttons on this stopped working, the antiskip was very bad, hardly worked at all, it drained my batteries and was al together the worst discman i ever bought- including the one i bought 10 years ago!
way to set cd players back in technology koss!

1 out of 5 stars POS.......2002-07-31

Its a POS! It broke the 1st week I had it then I returned it and the 2nd one the headphones broke and you can only hear out of one side. I put a new pair on it and it worked but now you can't hear anything! Ive only had it about a year!

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