Philips AX5211 Compact & Slim Portable CD Player (Silver and Red)

Philips AX5211 Compact & Slim Portable CD Player (Silver and Red)

Product Description
Product Description:
Whether in homes, factories, offices, airports, or on the street, it's hard to imagine a place where Philips is absent. What Philips wants is to make your life and work easier - and more fun! And Philips continuously explores new ways to improve products and to offer innovative products to its consumers. Philips. "Let's Make Things Better".

Philips AX5211 Compact & Slim Portable CD Player (Silver and Red)
Average customer rating:

Good-looking. Inexpensive. Intriguing operating method.

Great cd Player

Great portable player -- but a little flimsy

An awsome CD player

Philips AX5211 Compact & Slim Portable CD Player (Silver and Red)

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

All Portable CD Players | Portable CD Players | Portable Audio & Video | Audio & Video | Categories | Electronics
CD Players | Portable Audio | Philips | Brands | Electronics Features | Electronics
CD Players | Portable Audio & Video | Refurbished & Used | Special Features | Electronics Features | Electronics
Accessories:

Sony MDR-V700DJ DJ Style Monitor Series Headphones

Skipdoctor CD Repair Kit

Sony MDRG72LP Behind-the-neck Compact Foldin

Sony MDR-G57G S2 Sports Street Style Headphones with Reflective Ear Piece

Sony SRS-T55 Folding Travel Speaker with 2-Way Power Supply

Product Features:

45-second Electronic skip protection

30-hour playback (2 x AA Alkaline batteries)

Digital dynamic bass boost

Plays CD, CDR and CDRW discs

30-track programmable

ASIN: B0000949XL

Product Description

Whether in homes, factories, offices, airports, or on the street, it's hard to imagine a place where Philips is absent. What Philips wants is to make your life and work easier - and more fun! And Philips continuously explores new ways to improve products and to offer innovative products to its consumers. Philips. "Let's Make Things Better".

Customer Reviews:

Good-looking. Inexpensive. Intriguing operating method........2004-08-19

After some 15 years of use, my Sony Discman (of an early vintage, to be sure) bit the dust. While it was expensive when new (the price of my perpetually being an "early adapter"), by now it owed me nothing. So it was well past the time for me to find a replacement.

It didn't take me long to decide on the Philips AX5210/5211 CD player (satin chrome with dark blue trim [AX5210] or dark red trim [AX5211]). I happened to choose the blue to match some of my other computer peripherals, but the models are otherwise identical. The player is especially attractive and slim, taking up little more than the diameter of a CD and the thickness of a CD jewel box on my desktop.

The player works flawlessly and provides excellent sound to these modestly critical ears: I feed the output into both my Cambridge MegaWorks 210D self-powered speakers and my Bose TriPort headphones (both reviewed elsewhere at Amazon).

The player has some functional and ergonomic strengths and as well a few minor weaknesses. The controls for starting, indexing, pausing and stopping the player are conveniently located on the top surface, which also includes a full display for indicating running time (something the old Discman did not have). Volume adjustment for headphones is conveniently placed at the front of the player, as is the output jack for headphones and/or speakers. But the latch for opening the cover is somewhat inconvenient, and there is only one output jack, requiring a "Y" connector if one is to feed the output to both headphones and speakers. "As packaged" (in one of the more infernal blister packs I've ever encountered), the player does not include a power supply, requiring the additional expenditure of about seven or eight bucks for a "universal" power supply. But it does include two battery covers, permitting one to use either AA or AAA batteries (in pairs) if one is so inclined.

The operating principle-new to me and no doubt a consequence of the player being designed and constructed for wearing during activity-loads the signal into a memory buffer. The player will spin the CD for about 30 seconds, and then will let the CD coast to a stop while, for about 20 seconds, the buffered signal is fed to the output. This "start and stop" motion no doubt adds to battery life (not an issue for me) at the same time that it eliminates mistracking due to body motion while the player is being worn. Intriguing, to say the least.

I consider this player to be excellent in performance (and style and small "footprint"), even though it was necessary for me to add to it the additional expense of a "Y" connector and a power supply to account for the use to which I put the player. Others who use only headphones and batteries will have no such problems.

Red? Blue? It's up to you.

Pick one. :-)

Bob Zeidler

Great cd Player.......2004-04-24

I recently bought this cd player off of ebay as a replacement for my messed up Sony D-EJ360 Walkman (wouldn't read disc). So far, I have had absolutely no problems with this VERY pretty cd player. The first thing that caught my attention was the thinness of this device. The pictures dont do the justice for the look of this cd player. Great Buy. Recommend to everyone!!

Great portable player -- but a little flimsy.......2003-09-14

This is a great portable cd player -- one of the best I've tested -- but I think that it is a little flimsy. I abuse my electronics, and I like them to be durable. (Read: I drop my nice things quite often.) But the sound quality on this product is top notch -- and the headphones are very very nice. I also like the red rim (also available in blue). The button configuration is easy to use; all of them are in the right places. But I think the best thing about this player is the fact that you can use two different types of batteries! You can insert two AA or two AAA. There are different battery covers provided to accomodate these different configurations. What an awesome feature!

I highly recommend this product.

An awsome CD player.......2003-07-22

Just got it today this thing is awsome its really thin and lightweight the sound quality is exelent and the headphones it comes with are great they are the kind that go behind your head.I really like the design the buttons are in all the right places.Im only dissapointed about the durability the cover is a little loose and I dont think it has the repeat option and thats why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 stars.I also like how it looks and its some of it is red so thats pretty cool.

Electronics:

Electronics

electronics

Recommended Consumer Electronics:

Samsung CB 501 F 4:3 Format 50 Hertz Fernseher

Pink soft Pouch for Sanyo 8100

Inkjet Cartridge, Canon BCI-11 Compatible, 2-Pack, Color

MP70 Dig Mobile Kit Prntr/batt/case/photo Pack/ir Adptr

Samsung 15'' 550S SyncMaster Monitor

Logitech Mobile Freedom Headset Vehicle Power Adapter

PRESTIGE 623 ADSL USB ROUTER

Ilo DVD Recorder +R/ Rw with 80 Gb Hard Drive, Dvdrh04

Neo 400/800GB LTO3 Ultrium LVD Drive Field Upgrade

Kuon for PlayStation 2

Remanufactured Panasonic KX-TG5240M GigaRange Supreme 5.8 GHz DSS Expandable Cordless Phone Answering System