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- Vertical Load Disc Player
- CD/CD-R/RW Audio Tracks with Digital Volume Control and AM/FM Radio with Digital Readout
- Remote uses CR2025 Button Cell Battery and Remote Battery included
- Stereo Line-In Jack for Other Audio Player 3.5mm Type
- Removable Stands / Wall-Mountable
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GPX HC208B Home Music System
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54 of 54 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this CD player mainly to hook up my laptop to it. I watch tv and movies on my laptop a lot, the screen is 15.4 inches, so it is easy enough to see it in my tiny little room, but the speakers aren't very good and even at full volume it was hard to hear if there was anything else going on in the house.
So I bought this. I had an RCA cord that would hook my laptop up to speakers with an a double RCA Audio In port. But this one only had audio out (to hook the cd player part up to the speakers). But I bought a cable from the local Staples for ten dollars that hooked the laptop into the CD player through the headphone jack in the laptop and the headphone jack style audio in on the CD player.
Over all I am pleased with the CD player. The sound quality is good, I have only used the maximum volume once, to see how loud it got, and was surpised at the quality of it and the volume. It serves my purposes.
I was also surprised at how small it is nice in my tiny little bedroom, and will be nice in the dorm room I will living in soon.
My only real complaint is that it is kind of difficult to change the time, I have managed to do it once, but I am not entirely sure how I did it. And the manual was very small, and therefore very easy to lose. Daylight savings time has happened since I bought it and the clock is now an hour off. Luckily it is kind of hard to read it anyways so I just go off of the other clock in my room.
I would recommend this CD player to anyone who wants to attatch it to an ipod or laptop (just get the right cord) and anyone who doesn't like things to be TOO loud. If you are one of those people who blast your music so loud the neighbors down the street can dance to it, than this probably isn't what your looking for.
So I bought this. I had an RCA cord that would hook my laptop up to speakers with an a double RCA Audio In port. But this one only had audio out (to hook the cd player part up to the speakers). But I bought a cable from the local Staples for ten dollars that hooked the laptop into the CD player through the headphone jack in the laptop and the headphone jack style audio in on the CD player.
Over all I am pleased with the CD player. The sound quality is good, I have only used the maximum volume once, to see how loud it got, and was surpised at the quality of it and the volume. It serves my purposes.
I was also surprised at how small it is nice in my tiny little bedroom, and will be nice in the dorm room I will living in soon.
My only real complaint is that it is kind of difficult to change the time, I have managed to do it once, but I am not entirely sure how I did it. And the manual was very small, and therefore very easy to lose. Daylight savings time has happened since I bought it and the clock is now an hour off. Luckily it is kind of hard to read it anyways so I just go off of the other clock in my room.
I would recommend this CD player to anyone who wants to attatch it to an ipod or laptop (just get the right cord) and anyone who doesn't like things to be TOO loud. If you are one of those people who blast your music so loud the neighbors down the street can dance to it, than this probably isn't what your looking for.
47 of 48 people found the following review helpful
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This is a decent CD player. I bought it to play CDs in my 3 year old son's bedroom. It looks nice in his room, the sound quality is o.k. I can connect my MP3 player to it. It was one of the only devices I could find that was not designed around the iPod. It does not have the option to repeat play of an entire CD, it will only repeat one song...that is the only feature I wish I could change.
**UPDATE** We have had this system for less than three months and the CD player has already malfunctioned on many occasions. The CD player does not even start to spin the CD and if it does start up, it shuts off automatically after a few songs. I am very disappointed with the system and I wish I could change my rating, but I am not able to change my initial rating of the product. I would currently give it only one star.
**UPDATE** We have had this system for less than three months and the CD player has already malfunctioned on many occasions. The CD player does not even start to spin the CD and if it does start up, it shuts off automatically after a few songs. I am very disappointed with the system and I wish I could change my rating, but I am not able to change my initial rating of the product. I would currently give it only one star.
38 of 44 people found the following review helpful
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I was looking for a music system to put in a baby room. It had to have:
(1) a clock so my wife could watch the time while breast-feeding;
(2) a CD player for all the baby CD's we've received;
(3) a remote control
Nice to have options were:
(4) line in jack for iPod (ripping all the baby CD's to iPod is an option, but neither of us want to leave our iPod in there all the time);
(5) wall mountable & detachable speakers - to take up less room on baby's furniture.
I rated took two stars away because two of my must have features don't really work on this product.
(-) The clock is completely unreadable except from directly in front of the radio - step more than ~15 degrees to either side of center or 30deg above the radio and you can't read it.
(-) The "digital" tuner is really just a digital readout of the station on an old analog tuner. (ie the knob on the front of the radio is really just mechanically tuning an old analog tuner like what you have on most clock radio's; the "digital" part just hides the little pointer you usually see up/down the AM/FM scale). That's fine, but this means you can only tune the radio with the knob on the front making the remote pretty much worthless.
If you have the money, I'd recommend upgrading to the Sony ICFCD3iP CD Clock Radio for iPod and iPhone (Silver). This did not come up in my searches for "CD Clock Radio Remote", "CD Clock Remote", "CD Radio Remote" probably because it doesn't have "Remote" in the product name. It does indeed have a remote though.
(1) a clock so my wife could watch the time while breast-feeding;
(2) a CD player for all the baby CD's we've received;
(3) a remote control
Nice to have options were:
(4) line in jack for iPod (ripping all the baby CD's to iPod is an option, but neither of us want to leave our iPod in there all the time);
(5) wall mountable & detachable speakers - to take up less room on baby's furniture.
I rated took two stars away because two of my must have features don't really work on this product.
(-) The clock is completely unreadable except from directly in front of the radio - step more than ~15 degrees to either side of center or 30deg above the radio and you can't read it.
(-) The "digital" tuner is really just a digital readout of the station on an old analog tuner. (ie the knob on the front of the radio is really just mechanically tuning an old analog tuner like what you have on most clock radio's; the "digital" part just hides the little pointer you usually see up/down the AM/FM scale). That's fine, but this means you can only tune the radio with the knob on the front making the remote pretty much worthless.
If you have the money, I'd recommend upgrading to the Sony ICFCD3iP CD Clock Radio for iPod and iPhone (Silver). This did not come up in my searches for "CD Clock Radio Remote", "CD Clock Remote", "CD Radio Remote" probably because it doesn't have "Remote" in the product name. It does indeed have a remote though.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Defective Item
I returned the first shipment becasue the item did not work. At all. The shipment I received to replace the first faired somewhat better. It played about 10% of my CDs. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Michael S. Balliro
Not worth the money
I bought this to use by the bed. It never really worked well so it has ended up out in the garage to play cd's. Read more
Published 1 month ago by GrampaGrouse
Just a Radio
I received this item as a Christmas gift through my company. The CD player did not work from the moment I took it out of the box. Read more
Published 3 months ago by swtpe14
Didn't expect much and thats what I got.
I agree, that for less then $40 dollars you can only get so much quality and features. However, I did expect with todays technology and minature components that the AM/FM radio... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Radio man
Do not buy this!
If I could, I would have given it NO stars! I bought one of these for Christmas and here it is, January 19th and it no longer works. I used it very little. Read more
Published 4 months ago by J. Oge
So far, so good!
This was a Christmas gift for my mother. She wanted something small to play CDs with and didn't want a children's boom box. She is enjoying it and likes the sound quality. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Emily
GPX HC208B SUCKS.
THIS THING IS VERY BAD THERE IS NO HEAD PHONE JACK SOUND QUALITY SUCKS I GIVE THIS PIECE OF CRAP A BIG GOOSE... Read more
Published 4 months ago by tucsonirish
Garbage
I should have returned this Item. The remote does not tune the radio. You need to walk over and tune a digital display with an analog knob. The reomte is only for volume.
Published 5 months ago by Jeffrey Fuchs
Great system for the price!
This is a great little system. I have had it for a week now, and it works great for sound in my room. The remote is easy to use, and my mp3 player connected with no problems. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Christi Delgatty
Fine for little things, but no bass
I mean it. No bass at all. You can read other reviews for the problems, but that is the biggest for me when it comes to sound. I suppose I was lucky since mine has worked... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Samuel Ray
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