GPX C3946BI Portable CD Player with Car Kit

GPX C3946BI Portable CD Player with Car Kit

Product Description
Amazon.com Review
With the many competing brands of portable CD players available in the $50 to $75 price range, it's difficult for us to recommend the GPX C3946BI.

Although the C3946BI has lots of features, including a car adapter kit and volume control, we found its best asset to be its 40-second electronic antishock protection (ESP). With the ESP engaged, we dropped the player and bumped it repeatedly without causing the music to skip.

Unfortunately, even the antiskip feature has its flaws. Because the ESP button sticks out from the side, it was prone to being accidentally turned off each time we lifted the player.

The player's build quality is below average, with a design that offers fake screws as part of the lid's plastic mold.

The supplied headphones are among the least impressive we've heard in a portable CD player, exhibiting very little dynamic range and distorting frequently in the midrange.

Although the headphones come with a volume control, the circuit that's used to adjust the volume level hissed each time we moved the slide-rule-type control, with the music fading in and out and distorting through the headphones.

The supplied car kit did nothing to convince us the C3946BI's faults lie specifically with its headphones. When we plugged the player into our vehicle's normally impressive six-speaker sound system, the music distorted in the higher frequencies and demonstrated weak bass, indicating the built-in digital-to-analog converter is below average. --Eric Gill

Pros:

Impressive antiskip memory buffer

Lots of features

Cons:

Unimpressive build quality

Below-average headphones

Volume control distorts music when used

Product Description:
GPX exclusively offers one of the most comprehensive consumer audio and video electronic product portfolios imaginable. GPX has built a solid reputation with excellent product quality, reliability and value pricing. The company's success is based on the principal of exceeding expectations by offering the latest in technology, features, and fashionable designs that make customers feel good about their selection.

GPX C3946BI Portable CD Player with Car Kit

GPX C3946BI Portable CD Player with Car Kit

Average customer rating:

One of the best!
quero compra
it is very good cdplayers can have it
Great value
Great value

GPX C3946BI Portable CD Player with Car Kit

Manufacturer: GPX, Inc.
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

Audio & Video | Refurbished & Used | Special Features | Electronics Features | Electronics

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Product Features:

40-second antiskip protection
Headphones with in-line volume control
Bass boost and 20-track programmable CD memory
Includes car and cassette adapters
Durable design with translucent finish

ASIN: B00004SYAG

Product Description

GPX exclusively offers one of the most comprehensive consumer audio and video electronic product portfolios imaginable. GPX has built a solid reputation with excellent product quality, reliability and value pricing. The company's success is based on the principal of exceeding expectations by offering the latest in technology, features, and fashionable designs that make customers feel good about their selection.

Amazon.com Review

With the many competing brands of portable CD players available in the $50 to $75 price range, it's difficult for us to recommend the GPX C3946BI.

Unfortunately, even the antiskip feature has its flaws. Because the ESP button sticks out from the side, it was prone to being accidentally turned off each time we lifted the player.

The player's build quality is below average, with a design that offers fake screws as part of the lid's plastic mold.

The supplied headphones are among the least impressive we've heard in a portable CD player, exhibiting very little dynamic range and distorting frequently in the midrange.

Pros:

Impressive antiskip memory buffer
Lots of features

Cons:

Unimpressive build quality
Below-average headphones
Volume control distorts music when used

Amazon.com Product Description

The GPX C3946BI portable CD player features an eye-catching blue and silver design with a translucent lid, 40-second antishock memory, top-mounted controls, and a bass boost switch. Equipped with its own car connection kit, the GPX C3946BI is ready for road trips. Matching headphones, with their own volume control, are included.

Customer Reviews:

One of the best!.......2002-03-28

My mom got me this cd player as a backup to my almost 3 year old Aiwa cd player.I liked the cool look so much I had to have it!
When I got it...I was amazed it came with a AC adapter because alot of cheap ones don't.We both wanted to know how it sounded,so I played a cd on it right out of the box.My mom thought it sounded ok.The headphones are poor and [bad] in the bass department but do show some full-range dynamics.GPX calls them "digital headphones" but they are not!
I prefer to use my Sony headphones which gives the DBBS a REAL bass sound.The ESP is a God send.It makes this cd player unskipable beyond even the Sony's new anti-skip feature!
Yes it might stick out from the side like a sore thump,but if you put the HOLD button on it won't disengage when bumped(something the editor and 2 reviewers missed to examine).
The carkit is another God send,it works well.If you have a subwoofer the DBBS works very well in the bass department.Only cons I have is the headphones sound pretty [bad],and this cd player doesn't play CDRW's well.I highly recommend this cd player to people looking for a great,cheap discman that will play their CD's and CDR's(and don't mind buying a good pair of headphones).

quero compra.......2001-02-02

quero comprar o gpx c3946bi Portable cd player with car kit

it is very good cdplayers can have it.......2000-12-27

I want this cdplayers because my is broke and that why i am email you because I want this item of your hands because it is the when I like then my cdplayes my is a gpx cdplayers and it does not work because it is stach inside the when you open the top the cdplayers and

Great value.......2000-11-07

For about five dollars more than it takes to by a car kit for a CD Player, here you get a CD player as well! The player performs faultlessly when driven over the roughest terrain, the sound quality is good, and the unit is attractively finished in light blue. I was most impressed. The ear phones work well but are fragile, but who buys a CD Player for the ear phones? A great present for that young neice, or purchase as a spare around the home. I shall keep mine in the car.

Great value.......2000-11-07

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