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 Died on me December 17, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this mp3 player and when i put an mp3 cd in, it took a very long time to play the song, and sometimes it wouldnt even play it at all. I was ver dissapointed, especially since it cost me $70.And then after about 8 or 9 months, it just wouldn't turn on. 2 stars for car kit and good "normal cd" player (for 8 months)
 LOVE IT July 31, 2003
Lisa Capelle (Warwick, RI USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had purchased 2 Philips CD players a little less than 2 years ago and for the wear and tear that my boyfriend and I put them through they lasted & we really got our money's worth. I didn't have any kind of worries in buying another Philips product, however I was leery of the MP3 player part. Prior to my last CD player purchases I had bought an MP3/CD player combo that just was awful built by memorex. The sound quality was poor, and the CD player was laggy to get it going when you first switched the mode from MP3 to CD, so I wasn't sure I was going to like this model, but seeing as though it was from Philips and I had good luck with them in the past I figured I'd give it a try. I purchased the product and immediately was pleased with it because it had many of the same features that my elder Philips CD player had such as the anti-skip, the belt clip, the buttons were all in about the same place, bass & double bass modes etc. As time has gone on I have had my player for a little over a month and I'm very pleased. I have told all of my friends and family about this marvelously pleasing purchase and I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for this type of audio entertainment.
 The EXP503 is a poor choice!! April 14, 2003
Roy Chan (Long Beach, CA USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Pros: Lots of accessories, backlit lcd, reads ID3 tags, great ESP.Cons: Backlit lcd, no line-out, hardware glitches, lack of quality control. Summary: I have owned this unit roughly a month. It has wayyy too many things wrong with it for me to justify the price. One, it has no line-out, which is unforgivable, and the headphone jack is on the front which makes it impossible to mount in a car and make it look good. It also gets really hot underneath when the dc power supply is used. The LCD is backlit blue and looks good, but is really hard to read off-axis. The backlight turns on for about 4 seconds when you push buttons, and then turns off. I think they should have a backlight switch so you dont waste battery this way. The backlight quit working a week ago, so its a moot point anyway. The buttons also beep when you push them, something I find annoying, and the unit beeps when you pause it, something I also find aggravating. The point of pausing it is to NOT hear anything. The unit's headphone jack is also incapable of driving higher-impedance headphones like my Sennheiser 535s, so you are forced to use more efficient ones (like the crappy supplied earbuds). One of the most aggravating things wrong with it is this glitch in the ID3 reader that takes the last part of whatever the artist's name was before the artist name that you are viewing, and tacks it onto the one you are viewing; if the first artist you viewed was Matchbox 20, and the current one is REM, the ID3 readout will say REMchbox 20. The unit also has a display switch, but it doesn't remember your choice, thus, it displays this unneccessarily long filename whenever you switch tracks. The ergonomics are poor, and are hard to use if you use the belt clip. The ESP also turns on whenever you turn the player on, which wastes batteries if you forget to turn it off. The volume control is also recessed, which makes it hard to adjust, and the thing blows through batteries like nobody's business. You can expect maybe 6 hours on standard alkalines. So what's good about this player? Not much. The backlight looks cool (when it works), and the player has good skip protection even when the ESP is off. It does read ID3 tags, and the belt clip is cool. Since I am currently on my second player, which also does not function properly, there is no way I can recommend this unit. I actually liked the player when it worked, but it has too many unforgivable flaws to be sold as a production unit.
Sweet May 29, 2002
Sweeet (Salt Lake City, Ut USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Terrific unit. I had the old Expanium and it stopped working form me. Phillips sent this one as a replacement and I would recommend it to anyone. It finds songs quickly, the display is top-notch, and there is no dispute over sound quality.
 Great for OTR May 15, 2002
mxhxh
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this so I could listen to Old Time Radio shows on MP3 CDs. Thus far it has been able to recognize and play every different CD I tried. The sound quality is excellent.I only rated it 4 stars because there are several annoying shortcomings that quickly become apparent. Probably the biggest is the peculiar way the "resume" feature works. The problem is this feature only works when the power is on. So even though I have the car kit which lets the player run off the car's power, I still need to remember to stop play and then turn the unit off. Were I to simply turn the car off, the resume feature wouldn't work. The other big annoyance is with fast forward or reverse. They are simply too slow to be of much use.
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