TDK Mojo 620, only a slight improvement to the original.
Written: Jul 14 '02 (Updated Jul 14 '02)
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Pros: Great design, remote control and great player too.
Cons: Still no WMA support, short battery life compared to Sony.
The Bottom Line: If you can't afford the Nomad or iPod, get a MP3 CD player. If you do, don't forget about the Mojo 620 by TDK.
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| lavoisier's Full Review: TDK MOJO Personal CD Player |
Now that I have myself one of those MP3 CD players for my car, now I need one that I could really use outside the car and the home, or even up at my resort home near Sudbury, ON. But this time, instead of those that offer the FM tuner or that they just offer those conventional designs without remote controls, I decided to go for something practical and simple for an MP3 CD player. So, when I heard about the TDK Mojo 620 MP3 CD players were available for shipping; my computer store colleagues decided to give it a try for selling it. So, we decided to order some for the store just to sell it to the public as soon as possible. Sooner or later, it arrived to our store and I immediately had the opportunity to try it before we start selling it to the public. Immediately I was dazzled with the performance that I decided to order more just in case it sells out too quickly like hot cakes.
My Experience with the Player
With this CD player, as I've already said before it plays your conventional CDs as well as your CDs that contain just MP3s (not the conventional CD music that you treat it as an audio CD, during the writing process). But the features of this player what really make it a great deal. They include LyricSync, NAVITRACK and many more.
The Remote
With the remote bundled with the player, it makes it easy to navigate through the player without accessing the player itself. Here, the remote control only has basic capabilities as I find that the design could really be better by offering an LCD display, like on some of the pricier portable CD players, including the extra thin portable CD players like the slimmest Sony CD Walkmans.
Main Display
The CD player's screen features a 4 line display, which displays the current settings, Track Information and CD Info. Here, I can even use it to play only a selection of tracks or should I feel like repeating the CD or playing through a random order or even toggle through equalizer settings and Shock Protection Settings. By just looking at the manual and toggling through the user interface of the menus, it's even easy for a beginner and it doesn't have one of those dancing men on those lower end Rio Volt players.
NAVITRACK Software
With this software title, it gives me the freedom of managing my tracks and with the FIF (Field In Filename) format, it allows the user to sort the audio files and to change the ID3 tags designed for the player. The software will actually show you which files that requires a conversion to the FIF in order to make it playable on the Mojo 620. Notice that this software title isn't intended to write to a CD as it's solely for file conversion purposes, however the user interface for the software is just drag and drop, like you do with your CD Burning software. But to treat a CD that contains MP3 files, you treat the CD as if it were a Data CD.
Lyric Sync software
With this software, it allows me to view the lyrics on my track for the CD without looking for the quotes of the lyrics themselves in any source, even the Internet. Here, the same procedure is followed, which is the drag and drop to the tracks that you would like to have lyrics displaying on your player along with the time. Kind of like what you see in some Karaoke discs where you follow the song by the lyrics. But I do find that this software feature kind of useless, as it may not be a much help to some of the people, especially myself who knows the lyrics quite well.
Further Experiences
Although the player does resemble the same design as its former product, it just adds a touch of color to really make it a hippy image. But some of the controls are rather on the small side, that includes the menu, navigation and the selection.
Currently, the player only accepts CDs or MP3 CDs, but with the firmware upgrades that are available from the vendor's website www.tdk.com it will allow you to update your player, so you will never outgrow your player when newer audio compression formats are available.
The headphones themselves are a street style neckband over the ear phones, which are OK, but not the most comfortable out there. But you don't have to use headphones for your pleasure, as it's compatible with speaker systems that are available in the market today. Team it up with a quality speaker system, you’ve got yourself a jukebox on the go, without carrying an oversized boombox.
Certainly this is not the thinnest or lightest MP3 CD player out in the market, but it's perfectly normal for a CD player in terms of size as it does take up quite a bit of space in your bag, you really don’t want to place it in your pocket, as it's too bulky to be placed into one.
The battery life isn't really up to what I would expect from a Sony Discman as they can play with a much more efficient power consumpution as it only lasted about 13 hours in just one go with a pair of AA, even if it's one of those max capacity ones they sell in the store these days.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I find that this has been one of the greatest solutions to high capacity audio playing for those that can't really afford the hard drive based audio players like the iPod, the Riot or the Nomad Jukebox. In conjunction with the CD Burner and inexpensive media, this is really economical audio on the go.
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Amount Paid (US$): 150
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