Philips eXpanium EXP103 Personal CD Player

Pros: Cost, New and useful technology
Cons: Lack of song title support in LCD

Well, it is about time.
I don't know why, but it took way too long for companies like Philips to develop an affordable, portable MP3 player. The first attempts by un-heard of companies fell flat, due to cheap components and research. However,...

Pros: Plays wide range of bit rates and long file names.
Cons: Not drop-proof and does not display long file names.

Of all the mp3 cd players available the Expanium is the nicest.

I have been wanting an mp3 player for well over a year. The types that only stored songs in memory didn't impress me because they were limited to what's in memory and thats it. I...

Pros: Made by Philips, plays everything, battery life, accessories.
Cons: No ID3 tag or filename display, fragile, controls on face.

I've been anticipating portable MP3-CD players for a long time, I already had created many CDRs full of MP3s that can be played on any computer on the network at home from a server. Mostly, the story has been players to be shipping next month, every...

Pros: It works!!
Cons: $$$ Volume problem

I bought this player because my current CD player started to die and seeing as how I already owned a CD burner why not spend the money. Besides, I usually like to have the latest stuff. In fact I often spend more than the item is worth. That may be...

Pros: Plays MP3s on a CD; Light; Cool
Cons: No FF/Rewind within songs; No ID3 support

I've been thinking about MP3 players for quite some time. However, the ridiculous price for what you get ($200 for an hour of music?) always kept me off. I don't jog, so the "skip free" nature of RAM based MP3 players was never a big...

Pros: reads CD-RWs. Reads MP3s
Cons: large, slow between tracks

I bought the Expanium basically because I wanted more music with me on the go. I had an MP3 player, but it's memory is too minimal so I decided to try a name brand MP3 CD Player. The Philips is the only current one out there, and it's only for sale at...

Pros: Plays any CD-R, CD-RW or regular CD's. Excellent sound with car kit included, Never skips and is durable.
Cons: Can't search through MP3, long load time, hard to read display

With my hundreds of MP3 files sitting unused in my computer hard drive, I longed for a device that would let me play my recorded CD's in a portable device that I could hook up to my car stereo. My car stereo (like most I found out) would not play my...

Pros: Lots of music, lots of options, good sound
Cons: A bit coarse in the workings - first-to-market technology style

This new breed of CD players - those that can play MP3 CD's too - is a huge leap forward in personal audio technology, but I recommend holding off for another few months before rushing out to buy one.

The traditional CD player is great - an...

Pros: Great sound, allows for files in folders
Cons: Load time for album and between songs

There I was searching through all the different MP3 cd players, (I had already decided that I would no go for one of those memory players due to the cost to expand) and had hit upon the 2 I wanted, Pine and the Expanium. Then came the time to weigh the...

Pros: great sound, 180mp3 files on one disk
Cons: larger than my rio or my nomad

first generation of a cd/mp3 player by a major company. I searched everywhere (newsgroups, the web) for info about this player and I know all the pro's and con's.
SIZE: It's smaller and thinner than the photo leads one to believe.
VOLUME: I...

Pros: good performance
Cons: I can't think of anything bad

This is a great MP3-CD Player. In term of sound quality, it is good. When I listen to my MP3s, I notice that piano and guitar harmonics sounds are kind of distorted. Even though I can't tell if it is MP3's encoding problem or the unit's decoding problem,...

Pros: Large Capacity, no skipping, great portability, extra features and accessories.
Cons: no file names or ID3 tags makes cumbersome programming.

Your choice about whether you should buy the Philips Expanium is a very simple one, once you can decide if you should buy an MP3-CD player or not. If you are buying an MP3-CD Player, then the Expanium is the only one worth your money.

The...

Pros: Play CD MP3's with 150 songs each on them. It doesn't skip when jogging. Comes with a lot of peripherals.
Cons: You need to have a computer with a CD burner drive.

I was thinking about what category this review should go under and I wasn't sure if it would be portable CD or MP3 players. Let's get one thing straight. If you're going to buy a Discman, you should consider the Expanium. It plays CD's and has 100...

Pros: Stylish, Durable, 10 hours of music on one disc, great ESP
Cons: No ID3, no "fast search" within albums, long initial CD read times

I have over 400 MP3's on my computer, and considered many options. First was burning Mp3's onto CD's so that my regular CD player would play it (regular digital audio). Second was a new Mp3 player such as the Rio. Neither of these worked out, since...

Pros: can play both audio CDs, and CD-RW of MP3s, 100 second shock protection, can play multisession MP3 discs
Cons: cannot display track titles, resume function doesn't always work the way it is supposed to, can't save a program

I recently received the Philips Expanium Exp 103 as a birthday gift, after asking for a portable CD player for my daily walks. My husband thought to keep at least one trick up his sleeve and purchased a CD player that could handle both audio CDs and...