TDK MOJO 620 - CD / MP3 player - blue, silver

by Imation Corp.

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• ASIN: B00006B7U7
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,217 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Amazing, July 15, 2002

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JT "Spinning" (State College, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TDK MOJO 620 - CD / MP3 player - blue, silver (Electronics)

I bought one of these for my sister she wanted a cd-mp3 player for her car, she connected it using the iRock audio transmitter into the headphone jack on it. It has awesome sound and the navigation on the screen is easy. After seeing what it can do my brother and I are also buying one. The little remote with it makes it even easier to change tracks and use other controls without even looking at the screen. It runs off of 2 AA batteries and it gets about 10 hours of playback time with them. I read somwhere that if you turn off the Skip Protection (40 secs for normal CDs, 8 Minutes for MP3-CDS) you can juice about 11 hours of playback out of it. You ca also connect a car adapter to it and also included in the package is a DC adapter so you can plug it into an outlet. I also tried shaking it to see if it would skip, with the mp3 cd it didn't skip at all the cd wasn't even spinning it looks like it puts the songs into its memory, but with the normal cd it stuttered a little but this extremely violent shaking. Btw, amazon.com hasn't completely filled in the info for this player at the time of this writing but I believe this is the TDK MOJO 620 CD-MP3 Player.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless..., September 11, 2002

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Cameron M. Woolley (Sierra Vista, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TDK MOJO 620 - CD / MP3 player - blue, silver (Electronics)

This... broke down the first month I had it. The most strain I placed on this thing was opening and closing the lid. It sat on my desk and worked okay for about a week. Pretty soon, I noticed the playback beginning to deminish on longer CD's. The next thing I know, everything is skipping....

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I'm going with a different model, August 12, 2002

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Steven H. Hulme "Idaho Spud" (Boise, ID USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TDK MOJO 620 - CD / MP3 player - blue, silver (Electronics)

MY ADVICE - Go ahead and try the Mojo 620, but make sure you can return it for a refund if it doesn't work.

I purchased the Mojo, along with competing models from Samsung and Panasonic, with the idea in mind that I'd return two and keep my favorite. (None of the stores offer an in-store demo model - all three stores offered a 30-day money-back guarantee.)
Compared with the others, the Mojo is a bit on the large size. But I was attracted mostly by the promise of good volume. (One of my intended uses is for motorcycle riding, with Koss earplugs under the helmet. But only when I'm riding the wide open spaces; NEVER in traffic. I need volume. I also need good memory buffering, to avoid any "skipping" problem.) I was also impressed by the nice multi-line scrolling backlit display, and the numerous adjustments that can be made using menus. Wow! This model also has a wired remote (inline with the earphone jack).
JVC claims 10 hours of operation from a set of (2) AA batteries. That's about the same as Samsung claims; Panasonic, on the other hand, claims 32-40 hours. (The reality is - all three are a bargain - 10 or more hours of quality tunes for a buck's worth of batteries!)
The Mojo indeed had substantially higher volume than either the Panasonic or Samsung. (In the interest of objectivity, I used the same 'phones for all 3 - the Koss "Plugs," and also a nice set of Sony over-the-ear studio phones.)
But - the JVC is going back today. Why? Because it won't play my MP3 discs!
Again, I used the same, freshly-burned CD-R discs to compare all three players. Both other models work fine. The JVC will display all the ID3 information on its excellent backlit display, but I push the PLAY button, and it's a crap-shoot. Some tracks play, others never get "acquired." It just sits there spinning. (Huh?) I took the first one back, and described the problem. The "technician" (a pimple-faced kid who I'm confident knows much less about the product than I learned in a couple hours of fiddling with it) told me I was probably burning my CDs wrong. Which might be true, if the Panasonic and Samsung didn't play 'em flawlessly. Anyway, they gave me a replacement, and it's doing the same thing.
Another thing - on the tracks that DO play, some of them "skip" from place to place in the track, back to the beginning, etc. And if they DO take off and start playing, there is some irritating "popping" introduced into the sound from time to time, that is NOT heard with the other models.
(I didn't do much testing with standard audio CDs - although the MP3s don't sound nearly as good as CDAs, in my opinion, the trade-off is 10+ hours on a disc, instead of 74 minutes. Again, portability is a big issue on my upcoming motorcycle adventure that I'm gearing up for.)
Frankly, I'm quite disappointed I didn't have better success with this JVC. (The Samsung and Panasonic both offer a 1-year factory warranty, compared with 90 days for the JVC. I purchased a 3-year "exchange" warranty at my local retailer for $18 extra, but I guess it won't matter now.)

I'm going with the Panasonic. Not nearly as feature-rich as either this JVC or the Samsung (with its awesome DISPLAY remote control!), but it's bulletproof. Or so it seems. I've also got a Panasonic portable CD player that I bought new in '97 and it's still going strong.

Other hardware notes:
Motorcycle - 2000 Harley-Davidson FXDX (pretty loud, but quiet compared with wind noise at 60+ mph).
Phones - Koss "The Plug" - like earbuds, but with a soft rubber plug that goes further into the ear canal, and supposedly blocks ambient noise. $15-17, lifetime warranty.
(This is still an experiment, and may be a colossal failure. In my few miles of "testing," the ambient noise of motorcycle riding is still a major issue. And, I'll probably end up with permanent hearing damage. Huh? Huh? Maybe if I had a Honda Gold Wing with a big fairing...... NAH!)

CD-burning - I'm using an IOmega 12x CD burner, and the standard Adaptec Easy CD Creator, Version 4. I've never had a problem with an audio CD or an MP3 collection.