Customer Reviews

Sony D-NE320PSWHI Psyc MP3/ATRAC CD Walkman (Electric White)

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Even though I love my Sony NW-HD3 20GB MP3 player, when I listen to my beloved classical music collection, I still much prefer CDs, since when it comes to sound quality, MP3 simply cannot match the original CD recording. This Sony CD player is great for classical music (as well as jazz and vocals, or anything that an audiophile loves). You can feed the output to a high-end amplifier and get unbeatable sound. Or use a good pair of headphones.

This CD/MP3 player is also great for books-on-CDs. Ripping CD audiobooks is a pain and a tedious process. So it's simply easier to listen to the CDs direcly, and this lightweight, stylish, easy-to-use CD player is just PERFECT for that. And it runs for days on a single AA battery. (Hint: get Panasonic's new Oxyride AA batteries for double the life of even the best alkalines.)

I just love this portable CD player. If you are also an audiophile or an audiobook lover, this is perfect for your needs.

The only minor gripe is the player doesn't support WMA, which would have been even more fantastic for ripped audiobooks (better quality, smaller files). MP3 still takes too much space at the usual 128kbps bitrate. If I were to rip, I'd want to rip into 48kbps WMA and would still get great sound quality. (But I don't have the patience to rip anyway...)

BTW, this player (and the black version) are actually cheaper on Sony's consumer website, sonystyle dot com, where it sells for $49.95. I should have checked there first.

UPDATE: I was happy to discover that the inline remote control that comes with the D-NE320 also works on my Sony NW-HD3 20GB MP3 player. Awesome!

Reasonably priced, this mini-CD player is excellent. It gives you 41 hours of playing time on a single battery and the quality of the output is as good as any I've heard in higher priced models.

This works great! I bought this April, and use it about 4 days a week, a couple hours each time. Its nice and compact.

Has a few equalizer and bass settings. It think the sound is great. I dont use the earphones it came with...they sound okay. For some better sound I use the Sony Model MDR-CD180 headphones.

This can run on one AA battery a few weeks playing atrac or mp3 discs. Audio cds...about 5 days. So for the power I am using an AC adaptor 3V, which it does not come supplied with. I got mine through sony. Very light weight and small.

The cdplayer has an excellent LCD display on the top, along with the buttons. They are easy to work. Opens, and closes easy.
I have not tried its little remote control yet, but overall, I like this one from Psyc...its electric white color!

I bought this cd player early in the year Thinking it was great because of its ability to play atrac3 and was better then my previous player, but there were things I disliked and liked about the cd player.
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Pros
It has great equalizer settings and even a folder for files and great volume settings

Cons
when the battery runs out of juice and you put a new one in ,it memorizes your equalizer settings and volume settings but deletes your settings for A/B repeat so each time you have put the same cd in it will make you have to manually program it for A/B repeat for that track
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Pros
It has good battery life

Cons
the battery is installed on the inside of the cd player and the angle of the battery makes it hard to remove and when you remove the battery repeatedly it damages the outer casing of the battery causing wear and tear.the plastic clip for the battery some times does not shut all the way and it can cause cd damages while the cd rubs against the inner battery clip,it would have been better if the battery could be placed into the unit from the outside
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I wanted to replace my diskman I've had for 12 years, with one that will play MP3 CD's. This is the one I chose based on reviews and what people told me and I have no complaints. Easy to use, great sound even with the stock headphones I haven't tried good headphones yet though I will since I don't like ear buds much. I'm very happy with it.

I have no idea what happened to it. It was playing perfectly. The quality of this CD player is better than any other player I've ever owned. This morning, as I walked out to the bus, it refused to read my CD. Every other CD I tried either would not be read, took forever to be read and then shut off, or the player would skip almost every track and play a very few. Even with those few, the track would skip. I tried this with scratched and unscratched CDs, and it's certainly not the CD. How long have I had it? A week and a half. I'm very upset, because it's the best CD player I've ever owned and usually, Sony players put up with all the abuse they go through in my life. This one? Not at all. I'm resorting back to my old one that is nearly in two pieces but still plays perfectly. Good luck with the Psyc; I didn't have any.

excellent