Philips eXpanium EXP103 Personal CD Player

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,...