A rebuttal for bad reviews from satisfied user...
Written: Jan 27 '04 (Updated Jan 27 '04)
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Pros: Price, plays MP3s, reads/displays song tags, pushes good sound through my speakers
Cons: It does skip, but not nearly as much as stated previously (learn to drive people).
The Bottom Line: Highly recommended for someone looking to add an MP3 player to their auto. I'm tough on things and if lasted me, it should last awhile for most.
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| owhiterabbito's Full Review: Aiwa CDC-MP3 Car CD Player |
Well, I was surprised at how many people came here and gave the bad reviews for this unit. I bought this unit 2 years ago and I've had only one problem with it....the case broke (OH NO!!). I quickly read through the reviews and being a user of this unit for 2 years now, I figured I should throw in my rebuttals on certain things.
I feel it's only fair to the company and to the consumer wanting to know more about the unit in question. These are my opinions and rebuttals of the bad comments given:
"Must buy certain CDR's to avoid skipping"
--It's not the units fault that people tend to buy the cheap CDRs that are on sale, these don't even work in my comp sometimes
"Display is too short."
--30 Characters is fine. If you don't know what song you're listening to by the time 30 characters have gone by, then you should be rethinking how you do your tags.
"Owner's manual is awful.""
--I found no problems with this. What did you want? A palm-pilot manual? It's an owner's manual, it tells you how to run the thing, it's easily understandable. What more do you want from it?
"If you have anything less than PERFECT sounding mp3s, you will notice
every little flaw. Especially at the lower 128kbps bit-rate."
--Most people don't even USE files that are lower than 128kbps. If you do, the poor sound quality is NOT FROM THE UNIT, it is from the poor recording. This is NOT the units fault, it's the files chosen that cause this.
"needs way to go to tracks faster"
--It's called ORGANIZING you music yourself. This isn't a super-computer, it's a car-stereo. Organize you stuff into folders, don't be lazy and just dump 200 songs into one folder and burn it. Organize. This isn't a fault by the unit.
"No digital radio"
--Ok, no digital radio...personally, I bought my MP3 player so I could listen to my MP3 albums, not the radio.
"Annoying lights"
--I find nothing annoying about the lights. I like them and think they give the unit a nice feel. Love the blue lights.
"long access times for files and discs."
--It takes my unit about 30 seconds to load an MP3 disc that's got 20 folders and 180 songs on it. That's pretty dang quick if you ask me....that's a lot of stuff it's checking.
"MP3 works only if no audio tracks are present."
--Why would you burn audio tracks and MP3's to the same disc? That doesn't make sense.....my burning program won't even do that unless you tell it to put .wav files onto the disc instead of MP3s....again, not the units fault.
"Wrecks-CD recordings! Works good at first then gets Badfast!"
--Hasn't wrecked a single on of my CDs. How 'fast' does it go bad?? I've had mine 2 years and there's nothing wrong with it....heck, I've even dropped the face on the ground at least a dozen times.
"Mp3's start over when turn on car."
--What does this have to do with the unit? I'm pretty positive most mp3 players have problems continuing a track where it left off. My WinAMP on my comp can't even do that and all that it's for is playing MP3s.
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Sorry if that was long. I just felt that the unit was getting attacked unjustly because a few users didn't seem to quiet know what 'they' were doing, which shouldn't focus bad comments on the unit itself.
I love the unit, great for long trips, easy to use, good price, good functions, and overall good quality.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 260
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