Customer Reviews

Panasonic SL-SX280 Portable CD Player (Silver and Blue)

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i got this player for christmas 3 years ago since then i have dropped it many times it still works great never skipped on me good sound but now i have a new cd palyer the irock bling it is a little more bulkier than this but works good this is a good player

I'm not sure why people are giving this player the shaft. I've had this CD player for 3 years and it's played perfectly. I've dropped it several times on hard surfaces and it stills play perfectly. The headphones it comes with give great sound quality but on the other hand, are somewhat fragile. After 3 years of lugging it in my pocket, backpack, etc, they have started to fall apart so I recently spent $6 to buy sum new Sony ones. No big deal. Also this player DOES NOT support MP3 cds but will play regular audio cds and audio cds on CD-R/RW like a charm. A pair of AA batteries gives me about 30-35 hours of playback! It conserves energy very nicely. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a new CD player.

Rich "full" sound from an easy-to-use player with lots of individual options and settings to maximize your listening pleasure.

However, I did have to buy a new headphone set as this one is too large for my head and kept slipping off, even in the totally retracted setting.

Also, be careful when holding the player that you don't knock the "open" button and open the cover -- not hard to do on the train.

This Panasonic SL-SX280 is an awesome CD player. The anti-skip system rocks. The bass on this thing is so deep it sounds like you are listening to a big three piece stereo. It lasts realy long on just 2 AA batteries.

i find this product to be pretty good, except that as stated before by others, it does seem to skip. also, most of the time i have the have the volume on at 25 (which is max) and i usually still can't hear my music all that well. other than that, it is a pretty good cd player. when you in the middle of a cd and put it back in it will start where you left off, and i especially enjoy that.

Good:

Terrific sound.
Very nice Bass Boost.
I've dropped this thing at least 10 times and it always runs like new.
Easy to pop up the CD at the push of a button.

Not so good:

One of the buttons that they have put on this player does not have a function.
The head phones are pretty good, but they are slightly large. It doesn't really affect the music...it just makes your head look like a big ball. Instead of these, I just got some Sony headphones, and they're really good.

If you want a very simple but tough CD player that is easy to use, just get this one. It works great with some computer speakers, too, if you want to play it 'outside of your head.' Have fun!!!

This is a really common sense product that goes for a long time on batteries. It plays really well. Anyone who drops any CD player and then complains it is not durable is crazy. NO CD player can be dropped from 2-3 feet on to a hard surface and not get damaged. Most cassette walkmans can't take it either. I'm really surprised that the no skip works as well as it does, given the nature of how CD players work. Pretty neat. This the third National Panasonic CD I have owned and they all still work after these years.

This CD player has so many problems...I thought I was the only one who had a defective one. It skips while jogging so much that I now have it sitting on my desk. It's fine for that but nothing else. Yes, sound quality is good. The batteries do not last 20 hours...I was lucky to six hours before the battery indicator icon came on. It would shut off in the middle of a song for no reason at all. Very annoying buttons that worked sometimes others times not. As I said before, I now have this CD player on my desk in work hooked to the wall outlet so I don't spend a fortune on batteries. Not recommened at all. Panasonic dropped the ball on this big time.

I got my Panasonic SL-SX280 at an electronics store about a year ago. It was on sale for $29.99. I consider it a very good buy.

The sound is great and the controls are easy to use. The manual is complete and explains everything well. It is definitely "joggable" as I use it for my daily walks and jogs and have never experienced a problem.

There are only two drawbacks. It does use up the batteries very quickly and when they are low I get a message "No disc" even though I have one in there. Every time I get that, I know it is time to change the batteries. Also, the big headphones are a little cumbersome and I switched them out for a pair of earbuds. But for those two items, I would have given it five stars.

All in all, this is an excellent portable CD player and I have been very pleased with my purchase.

Ok, it's Christmas 2001 and all I want is this CD player. I got it opened it up, it was easy to use. It was a dream. I was so satisfied I went straight to epinions and wrote a great review.
Now, I'm not so satisfied. About 2 months ago (it's late december right now) my cd player had started this weird cycle of not playing at all. I am serious I would throw store bought cds into thi thing and it would come back with "no cd" and all the time it happened I just was thinking wow it's ok remember this is a great cd player. It's been doing this over and over, also since this problem started my battery life has dropped from 15-20 hours to about 3-6. I don't know if I'm old fashioned or what but before this new thing I had an Aiwa from abotu 6 years ago, sure it's only a 2 hour battery life but it didn't skip on me once. Maybe that's how the market runs now but I was looking for something I could use for a couple of years you know? Well I've already placed my order of the IRiver America SlimX 350, possibly the greatest cd/mp3 player ever and I have heard all kinds of things about it, and I can't be happier. I do understand if your looking for something inexpensive with a good setup this is definatly the player.

This thing is soooo easy to use, well, once you understand the buttons, it got me lost for a minute but then I was bumping to my favorite tunes. It will play any cd you throw at it because this thing is a beast (why I got it). It's super small, light and portable, and unless you bounce like a ball when you jog or you hold it in your arms and swing them out it won't skip much. The sound is by far the crispest thing I've seen out of Panasonic in years, I just wish it would have lasted a bit longer so I could enjoy the fun. Overall a good product, I hope you purchase this thing and write a review about it.