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I love this cd player, really I do. IT looks good,feels good, plays good, the lense doesn't fog up giving you a false no CD reading. I can't say enough, except...it skips too much when jogging. When I jog I have to hold it in my hand and create a smooth ride for it so it won't skip.

It has one bad thing about it: even when walking with it, it sometimes enters a period of silence, like it cannot read the CD. You have to press stop and then play in order to continue listening.

Well,

I bought this CD player over 6 months ago and despite its bulky appearance don't be fooled into believing that this thing can "take a lickin and keep on tickin."

I used to have an old $50 Sony discman that lasted me a good two years before it quit working on me, so I went out and bought this new one.

I use this player about 6 times a week, bringing it with me to my Gold's Gym, I have definitely torchered it by dropping it occasionally from a tread mill or stair climber. The unit always worked fine until last week when it finally broke down on me and does not even spin the CD's anymore.

So much for a sports cd player, this thing didn't even last as long as its much cheaper brother.

However, the durability of this CD player was not the only complaint I have. The headphones themseleves are horrible, you can barely hear anything out of them. The imaging of the music was also not very good. It was almost as if I was listening to music through a bathroom door. In addition, this thing skips too much! My ESP cd player did a better job and this CD player and this is supposed to have ESP2...

Anyway, I am buying the new headshock Panasonic CD player, which I hear is more durable and provides better skip control. I like Sony products, but I will stay away from there DiscMans.

I've used this while blading/running/in the car and it's held up. Even used it for most the year as my primary cd player (hooked up to the computer speakers). I've been a little rougher with this model than I would a non-sport discman, and it's taken the moderate abuse well. Love the "rocker" button that controls track, stop, play/pause functions. If they somehow intergrated volume into that one button I'd be a happier camper, but still it's very convenient to have those features in one area. The Bass mode fine, Groove muddies the vocals and higher notes too much for me. The little rubber "plug" for the headphone jack popped off, but since you'll have the headphones plugged in there anyway it isn't too great a loss. Happy customer-- this one has held up better than my previous ESP discman from 3 years ago. Buying it as a Christmas present for friend.

Well I've had it for almost 2 years and it just stopped working yesterday. Granted, I have dropped it a few times in the past but it was fine after I dropped it. I haven't dropped it in a loooong time. The problems I've had with it are 1) the anti-skip wasn't so great; 2)the headphones broke (only one "ear" would play) after only a few months and I bought another set of Sony headphones and the same thing happened, and two more sets of Aiwa headphones and guess what! The same exact thing happened. I thought these were supposed to be the good brands?? 3) Another problem with this Discman is that when I used batteries, the display (i.e.Song #13 or how long the song has been playing)was faded or I could only see half of the numbers. It didn't do that when I used an adapter; and finally 4)Lately what would happen is I would stop listening to one CD, put in another immediately, and when I tried to play it it wouldn't work. So I took out the batteries, put the same batteries in again, and it would play. Well finally yesterday when I did that it wouldn't play at all even though I changed the batteries several times, put brand new batteries in, etc. Great now I have to buy another one. I had an old Sony Discman and it worked for YEARS. I'm sorry that I gave it away now. No it wasn't fancy looking like this one nor nearly as expensive but it worked.