GPX C3946BI Portable CD Player with Car Kit

GPX C3946BI Portable CD Player with Car Kit
Manufacturer: GPX, Inc.
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
GPX exclusively offers one of the most comprehensive consumer audio and video electronic product portfolios imaginable. GPX has built a solid reputation with excellent product quality, reliability and value pricing. The company's success is based on the principal of exceeding expectations by offering the latest in technology, features, and fashionable designs that make customers feel good about their selection.
Amazon.com Review
With the many competing brands of portable CD players available in the $50 to $75 price range, it's difficult for us to recommend the GPX C3946BI.

Although the C3946BI has lots of features, including a car adapter kit and volume control, we found its best asset to be its 40-second electronic antishock protection (ESP). With the ESP engaged, we dropped the player and bumped it repeatedly without causing the music to skip.

Unfortunately, even the antiskip feature has its flaws. Because the ESP button sticks out from the side, it was prone to being accidentally turned off each time we lifted the player.

The player's build quality is below average, with a design that offers fake screws as part of the lid's plastic mold.

The supplied headphones are among the least impressive we've heard in a portable CD player, exhibiting very little dynamic range and distorting frequently in the midrange.

Although the headphones come with a volume control, the circuit that's used to adjust the volume level hissed each time we moved the slide-rule-type control, with the music fading in and out and distorting through the headphones.

The supplied car kit did nothing to convince us the C3946BI's faults lie specifically with its headphones. When we plugged the player into our vehicle's normally impressive six-speaker sound system, the music distorted in the higher frequencies and demonstrated weak bass, indicating the built-in digital-to-analog converter is below average. --Eric Gill

Pros:

Impressive antiskip memory buffer
Lots of features

Cons:

Unimpressive build quality
Below-average headphones
Volume control distorts music when used

Amazon.com Product Description
The GPX C3946BI portable CD player features an eye-catching blue and silver design with a translucent lid, 40-second antishock memory, top-mounted controls, and a bass boost switch. Equipped with its own car connection kit, the GPX C3946BI is ready for road trips. Matching headphones, with their own volume control, are included.

Average customer rating: 3.0

Great Product
DO NOT BUY

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Manufacturer: Cellet
Product Group: Wireless
Binding: Wireless Phone Accessory
ASIN: B000JNUK7G

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