LetItRut's Full Review: Sony Walkman® D-EJ100 Personal CD Player
Out of curiosity, I purchased a Sony D-EJ1000 from Tweeter, at a price of $200 plus tax. Initially, I was attracted by its ultra-slim design, ultra-long battery life and a metal lid. But after over a year with the CD player I was ultimately disappointed with it. Here's why:
The styling of this ultra-slim player is simple, but elegant. It can fit into a jacket pocket (but not a pants pocket). The lid is metal, which is easy to dent but doesn't shatter like plastic can. The downside of this slimness is that Sony has chosen to put only the basic controls and no display on the unit! Sony does include a remote with a backlit LCD on it. But that means that many functions on the D-EJ1000 require the remote for operation. Also, there is precious little room between the top of the lid and the spinning CD itself, so some CDs would end up hitting the lid as they spun. And when that happens, the D-EJ1000 would lose track of the music, and then pause and/or skip.
Sony rates the battery life of the D-EJ1000 at 115 hours (with two internal NH-14WM rechargeable batteries, which cost as much as $80 just to replace, and two AA alkaline batteries in the included external AA case). Trouble is, the AA case just dangles freely, with no way whatsoever to permanently mount the case. With just the internal rechargeables, the battery life is still a healthy 41 hours. But this ultra-long battery life comes at the expense of sound quality: The player cannot play at all loudly without severe clipping distortion, especially with low-impedance headphones (such as the Sony MDR-E888LP earbuds). Furthermore, the D-EJ1000's headphone-out produces bloated mid-bass and upper-bass tones with significantly rolled-off treble.
The few bright spots in the performance of the D-EJ1000 is the line-out quality (it drives a dedicated headphone amp better than most other recent portable players can, and it sounds respectably good for a modern portable player), and the outstanding anti-skip (it doesn't skip on me, even when jogging - but I would have to hand-hold the player to do that). (NOTE: The sound quality from the line-out isn't reflected in the sound score.)
The remote is somewhat flimsy; the collar that controls the playback and volume functions can break. The player itself is quite solidly built - which means that it will unlikely break down unless it's abused.
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