Philips EXP503 eXpanium Personal CD Player with CD-MP3 Playback and Car Kit
Philips EXP503 eXpanium Personal CD Player with CD-MP3 Playback and Car Kit
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Philips EXP50317 eXpanium Personal CD Player is one of the best personal CD/MP3 players on the market. Made by Philips, a leader in digital audio and video recording, the EXP503 supports pretty much any format you can burn onto a CD, CD-R, or CD-RW. In addition to ACC files (the standard CD encryption protocol) the EXP50317 supports a wide range of MP3 formats as well (32-320Kbps.) For those on the go, the EXP503 offers anti-shock for each of these formats, ranging from 45 seconds for CDs to 100 seconds on 128Kbps MP3s. Philips even throws in a free car kit to help you listen through your car stereo. But what makes the EXP503 so exceptional for a machine its size, is the LCD display which allows you to search through the tracks on a CD with clarity and ease. When you consider that a single MP3 CD can be easily encoded with more than 100 songs, the feature's necessity becomes abundantly clear. All in all, if you want your music with you in the car, at the gym, and on your hip when you're jogging uphill, the EXP50317 is the way to go.
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The eXpanium 503 takes portable MP3 playback a step further, with MP3-CD plus ACCD playback. You will be able to read your MP3 tracks on the larger display as you play CDs that can hold over 10 hours of music. As an added bonus, the EXP503 is ultra-portable: it can play up to 15 hours on four AA batteries and it includes headphones and a belt-clip. There is also a cassette adapter and power adapter that enable use of a portable CD player in conjunction with a stereo sound system in a car. No more listening to MP3s at the computer - now you can listen to them wherever you are.
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Philips EXP503 eXpanium Personal CD Player with CD-MP3 Playback and Car Kit
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Product Description
The eXpanium 503 takes portable MP3 playback a step further, with MP3-CD plus ACCD playback. You will be able to read your MP3 tracks on the larger display as you play CDs that can hold over 10 hours of music. As an added bonus, the EXP503 is ultra-portable: it can play up to 15 hours on four AA batteries and it includes headphones and a belt-clip. There is also a cassette adapter and power adapter that enable use of a portable CD player in conjunction with a stereo sound system in a car. No more listening to MP3s at the computer - now you can listen to them wherever you are.Customer Reviews:
Died on me.......2005-12-17
LOVE IT.......2003-07-31
The EXP503 is a poor choice!!.......2003-04-14
Cons: Backlit lcd, no line-out, hardware glitches, lack of quality control.
Summary: I have owned this unit roughly a month. It has wayyy too many things wrong with it for me to justify the price. One, it has no line-out, which is unforgivable, and the headphone jack is on the front which makes it impossible to mount in a car and make it look good. It also gets really hot underneath when the dc power supply is used. The LCD is backlit blue and looks good, but is really hard to read off-axis. The backlight turns on for about 4 seconds when you push buttons, and then turns off. I think they should have a backlight switch so you dont waste battery this way. The backlight quit working a week ago, so its a moot point anyway. The buttons also beep when you push them, something I find annoying, and the unit beeps when you pause it, something I also find aggravating. The point of pausing it is to NOT hear anything. The unit's headphone jack is also incapable of driving higher-impedance headphones like my Sennheiser 535s, so you are forced to use more efficient ones (like the crappy supplied earbuds). One of the most aggravating things wrong with it is this glitch in the ID3 reader that takes the last part of whatever the artist's name was before the artist name that you are viewing, and tacks it onto the one you are viewing; if the first artist you viewed was Matchbox 20, and the current one is REM, the ID3 readout will say REMchbox 20. The unit also has a display switch, but it doesn't remember your choice, thus, it displays this unneccessarily long filename whenever you switch tracks. The ergonomics are poor, and are hard to use if you use the belt clip. The ESP also turns on whenever you turn the player on, which wastes batteries if you forget to turn it off. The volume control is also recessed, which makes it hard to adjust, and the thing blows through batteries like nobody's business. You can expect maybe 6 hours on standard alkalines.
So what's good about this player? Not much. The backlight looks cool (when it works), and the player has good skip protection even when the ESP is off. It does read ID3 tags, and the belt clip is cool. Since I am currently on my second player, which also does not function properly, there is no way I can recommend this unit. I actually liked the player when it worked, but it has too many unforgivable flaws to be sold as a production unit.
Sweet.......2002-05-29
Great for OTR.......2002-05-15
I only rated it 4 stars because there are several annoying shortcomings that quickly become apparent. Probably the biggest is the peculiar way the "resume" feature works. The problem is this feature only works when the power is on. So even though I have the car kit which lets the player run off the car's power, I still need to remember to stop play and then turn the unit off. Were I to simply turn the car off, the resume feature wouldn't work.
The other big annoyance is with fast forward or reverse. They are simply too slow to be of much use.
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