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I hate when I open a clamshell package and I get a whiff of that funky Chinese plastic smell - I think it's due to the chemicals they use to make their plastics, and I only encounter this smell with items from China. It nauseates me.

I would have returned this but the smell dissipated from the CD player itself within 24 hours. The headphones that came with it are another story, they are still sitting out in my garage and I'm hoping they lose that smell eventually. In the meantime, I'm glad I kept my old headphones from my 10 year old Sony Walkman that bit the dust last month.

This CD player does not have an anti-skip feature, but I'm ok with that. I use this when I go to bed at night to listen to relaxation CD's, I keep the CD player on the nightstand next to my bed and all is well. I tried this in my car and just letting it lay on the passenger seat worked well also. It's only when I hold this in my hand and shake it fairly hard that it skips. So this may work ok if you are a walker, but probably not if you intend to jog with it. (But that's what MP3 players are for).

The controls are all easy to figure out without reading the instruction manual (the manual has that funny smell too).

The sound quality is great but since I'm using my Sony headphones, that may have something to do with it. I haven't tried the J-win headphones.

I'm happy with this, it was cheap, it has good battery life, and it plays my homemade CD-R's. I hope it lasts longer than the 90 day warranty that comes with it. And maybe one of these days the smell will leave the headphones, but if not, it's not a big deal to me.

this cd player works well and is totally worth the $.it's a little touch sensitive though. i took a point off because the first one of these i bought came broken. Amazon is totally great about that kind of stuff though. you just report the problem and they replace it free.

Good product-worth $$. Would be more usable with strap or some type of hangin device-clumsy to pull out of pack each time to alter playback .
would buy again--consider it a throwaway-good value for it shortcomings of strap.

No memory, so the slightest movement of the player causes it to skip. Drains batteries at a voracious rate. At least it has provision for an AC adaptor (the Colby does not), but the pin would not remain in contact with the jack unless I squeezed it. Colby, GPX, Jwin--mass-produced lightweight plastic that, if it works, does so erratically and briefly. Even if the players were free, the cost in frustration and disappointment is becoming too high a price to pay. Either the Chinese are getting a chuckle out of shipping these to Americans or are as perplexed as I am why we (I) continue to purchase them.

I bought this to use when I am on a treadmill. It works, but it skips just from the mild vibration of the treadmill. And I certainly can't carry it while I'm walking. Also, it doesn't come with a power cord, so batteries are the only option. It's OK, but I wouldn't buy it again.