GPX C3935 Portable CD Player with 22-Track Program Mode and Car Kit

by GPX

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 2 x 11.2 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004UE8Y
• Item model number: C3935
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #405,701 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful amp & eq, best sound, July 27, 2001

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Michael Hoffman (Egodeath.com) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: GPX C3935 Portable CD Player with 22-Track Program Mode and Car Kit (Electronics)

For amptone.com/audio, I've been comparing and collecting portable CD players, MiniDisc players, and cassette players, together with portable headphones and studio headphones.

I'm an EQ fanatic, and this player confirmed why. With any earbuds or headphones, especially good ones, you can dial in better sound with the help of an EQ.

The EQ sliders are always right there within reach. The EQ is paired with a strong amplifier. The documentation has no specs, surprisingly, but my guess is that this has at least a 15 mW per channel capacity, if not more. Some MiniDisc players put out as little as 5 mW per channel.

With this player and decent headphones or Sony's new $10 silver earbuds, you can dial in better sound than with players that only have bass boost. My Rio Volt MP3 CD player has EQ, but the EQ is removed as you turn the volume up to above 30 out of 40, and the EQ starts becoming very unpredictable and uncontrollable, as well as difficult to navigate to. This GPX C3935, however, offers immediate access to the Bass Boost switch, an instant-response traditional potentiometer, and direct access to the 3 EQ sliders (100 Hz, 1KHz, 10KHz) -- with no overintelligent compression or other funny business to reduce bass when you turn the volume up.

This CD player gives you more flexible and direct control over the sound shaping than players that lack EQ or have overly fancy programmable EQ. For example, when listening to a custom mix CD-R, each song may call for a slight adjustment of EQ, and this player makes such adjustments easy.

With my $100 JVC headphones, I'm in awe at the great, controllable results using nothing more than this CD player and the headphones. In some ways, the player looks cheap, but it also looks cool with the EQ and the spinning CD visible -- and its great sound more than compensates.

The EQ controls are small and recessed -- a little delicate to operate, but mostly immune to accidental adjustment inside a backpack.

It only claims 10 seconds of anti-skip buffering; however, the anti-roll feature seems effective and I can move the player vigorously without skipping.

This player doesn't have Resume, but it has the other standard features such as program play, repeat, and random.

The EQ even allows getting fair sound out of the included headphones. The included headphones are light gray - cheap looking.

The cassette adapter worked great, with high fidelity, in my home mini-stereo, but my stock car deck ejected it. I'll have to just use regular or custom CD-Rs in the car deck, rather than using this cassette adapter to feed a MiniDisc or MP3 source.

Soundwise, this player runs circles around the $160 Rio Volt, and I expect to listen to this GPX more often than the Rio Volt, at least until I receive a Red Sound Micro Amp battery-powered amp with treble and bass controls.

Also, because this is a wonderfully straightforward traditional CD player, it does not insert an audible gap between two standard audio tracks that run together on an album -- unlike the Rio Volt when playing a standard audio CD.

I love this player like I loved my cassette player with 4-band EQ before it was stolen. I'm continuing research on all portable players that have separate bass and treble, or ideally, 3+ band EQ with physical sliders.

It is nice that this unit comes with an AC-to-DC adapter and a car cigarette power adapter -- these extras helped me decide to buy this player.

This player was a "score" and confirms I'm on the right track, searching for portable players with custom EQ such as separately adjustable treble and bass, at least.

For example, the new Sony 900 MiniDisc portable recorder can produce much better sound with various headphones than its siblings, because it has separately controllable bass and treble -- however, it takes too many button-presses and 2-second wait periods to change those settings.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Defective, August 13, 2002

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John (NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GPX C3935 Portable CD Player with 22-Track Program Mode and Car Kit (Electronics)

Cd player lasted three weeks, then only displayed a "no disc" message after several days of deteriorating performance.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars GPX disc skip system, November 28, 2001

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Music lover in Minnesota (Eagan, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GPX C3935 Portable CD Player with 22-Track Program Mode and Car Kit (Electronics)

If i breathe it skips, and i cannot even get a hold of Gpx to complain. It does not move from song to song easily, causing me to "play" with it to much even in the car. The price is nice, but i would never buy another GPX item again!!!