Philips EXP411 Pocket Expanium MP3-CD Player Review

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(More customer reviews)As a CD player it's so-so. No better or worse than many others I already own, or have owned. The BEEP when you hit pause is major annoyance so I would recommend against hitting PAUSE when wearing headphones. It does this to remind you that you have it in PAUSE mode, and does it about every 6-7 seconds.
The big problem is batteries. It only takes one AA but it sucks the life out of it in record time. And if you happen to put it on the table for a couple of days with a battery in it, expect it to be close to drained when next you turn the unit on. Why? Good question. Ask Philips. My questions about it have gone unanswered.
The resume mode works as advertised. But if you have to replace the battery you'll lose the resume memory and have to start over. And since it eats batteries, well ...
Sound is excellent. I've used it for both contemporary music at the usual bit rates, and Old Time Radio programs at obscenely low bit-rates. It played most of them but has been known to stutter occasionally with OTR material at 24kbps. As I type this I'm listening to a Command Performance show from 6/30/44 encoded at 24kbps. 10 minutes in it has only stuttered once.
You could do worse ...

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More pocket-friendly than the average portable CD player, Philips's second-generation Pocket Expanium takes advantage of the tiny 3-inch (8 cm) CD-R format, playing full-quality CD tracks as well as MP3 and AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) compressed-music files. An 8 cm disc holds more than three hours of compressed music (compared with about 21 minutes of CD-quality PCM audio). Philips boasts nearly two minutes of "Magic" electronic skip protection (ESP), so the device is ready to go anywhere you do.
The EXP41117 runs on a single AA battery (not included), which powers about six hours of playing time for an MP3-CD with electronic shock protection on (eight hours with ESP off). Supported bit rates are MP3: 32 to 320 kbps; AAC: less than or equal to 160 kbps. Total number of music files and albums is around 350 (with a typical file name length of 20 characters). The EXP41117 measures 3.6 by 4.7 by 1.1 inches.

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