Philips EXP103 eXpanium Portable MP3-CD Player with 45-Second Anti-Skip and Car Kit
Philips EXP103 eXpanium Portable MP3-CD Player with 45-Second Anti-Skip and Car Kit
Manufacturer: Philips
Product Type: CE
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Product Description
Rip It. Burn It. Spin It. With the Philips EXP103, you can take not only your MP3 files with you wherever you go, but you can also play regular audio CDs as well as CD-Rs and CD-RWs. Take your Philips eXpanium 103 outside, to the library, on a plane - even your car. With up to 100 seconds Magic ESP, you are sure to enjoy continuous music enhanced with Digital Dynamic Bass Boost. Headphones and an AC/CD adapter complete this flexible portable CD player.
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This sharp-looking unit is one of the first in a new generation of devices able to play traditional audio CDs as well as MP3 audio files burned onto CD-R or CD-RW discs. Although we maintain a few caveats with the Philips eXpanium's somewhat clunky design, we were pleased with its sonic performance.
In our tests, it took anywhere from 20 seconds to a minute to create a directory from an MP3-encoded CD, depending on the number of files on the disc. Once it was playing, though, the quality of sound was quite good. The dynamic range was more than adequate: the high end was crisp and clean, and the low tones were solid, even without the bass boost activated.
The antishock system was virtually infallible when playing MP3s. We suppose that if we'd dropped the player down a long set of wooden steps, it might have skipped, but short of that, the music kept on coming, ignoring our jolts and bumps. It didn't hold up quite as well for normal audio CDs (or CD-Rs or CD-RWs encoded with real-time tracks), but the antishock protection for them was still very good. However, while Philips claims that the shock protection is good for 45 seconds on audio CDs and up to 100 seconds for MP3s, the player took what seemed an inordinate amount of time to recover after skipping.
Navigating through and within CD tracks was straightforward, but in MP3 format the unit provided no way to search within a track. The display was relatively difficult to read, lacked a backlight, and did not display the track names on MP3 files. Additionally, the display's dimness and placement at the back of the lid made the unit hard to use in a dark car.
Overall, the eXpanium currently leads the way in what will likely be the next big portable audio format, and it's only a matter of time before they package the technology in a slightly sleeker, more user-friendly design.
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Average customer rating: 3.5
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