Cheap Sony D-E356CK Walkman CD Player with Car Kit (Electronics) Price

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Customer Reviews of Sony D-E356CK Walkman CD Player with Car Kit

PRO:
(1) skip protection is decent
(2) Battery life is good
(3) Unit itself is well designed, durable.

CON:
(1) No search - it only allows skip ahead or back. You may not search around a lot on a track, but I do. And I get pretty frustrated.
(2) For all the bragging they do about its skip protection, I still skip a lot. Given, it's better than previous portables I've owned, but the advertising had me thinking I'd picked up the best CD player ever. It still skips.
(3) By far my biggest complaint is that my unit does terribly with CD-R's. This is highly problematic because I make my own mix CDs. I can't listen to any of them on this unit. I thought it might be CD-R brand specific, but 3 different brands of CD-R's all did terribly (including Sony brand). It just skips through the whole song on every track. Utterly frustrating.
(4) The remote control is terrible. It's awkward to use, and what's worse, generates even more wires to clutter you up while you're driving.
(5) As previously mentioned, beeping is very annoying and loud and lack of backlighting problematic at times.

My impression:
I think that this unit is decent if you can find it for pretty cheap, but it certainly is not a good CD player. I've had good luck with Sony in the past, so I'm having a hard time understanding why I've had it so bad with this one. When I get the funds, I will be buying a higher quality discman to replace this one. If you're going to pay full price for this unit, you've been misled about this product, and if you've already bought it at full price, see if you can return it.

Not bad Not bad.
I actually picked this player up on a whim as I needed something to keep me entertained for a 48 hour bus trip.

Some of the good features I found in this machine were.

1) I've found the player to be quite good with anti-skip no matter where I go. I don't even have the ESPMax on most of the time and I still get very few pops and skips while going down bumpy roads or just walking briskly.

2) The sound quality on it isn't all that bad, the headphones that the kit supplies are workable and fairly comfortable.

3) The battery life on it is quite lengthy if you're just using the bare minimum settings. (No ESP on or bass on) I only had to change the batteries during my bus trip once.

4) Love that hold feature, I can stuff the deck in my pocket and not worry about the volume cranking itself up on me.

5) Resume feature is a plus, saves having to find another button on the deck.

6) Decently Built. I've stupidly managed to drop the player on solid floors two or three times and the machine hasn't [burned] out on me yet. Although I find there's an increased lag when the machine is checking for a disc.

Some Not So Good Features

1) Lack of a real "search" function. I like to skip through parts of the songs so I can get to one particular point. A little frustrating.

2) No backlit LCD, makes it hard to tell if you're on the right song.

3) The sound quality I found when plugged up to the car adapter degraded a little but that could be because of the stereo system in the car itself.

4) Resume feature can be frustrating in that if you want to start the song from the beginning you gotta go on the hunt for another button or if you accidentally open the player it resets itself so to speak.

All in all, the player has been treating me fairly good, I was most impressed with the quality and the price that I paid for it.

not that good..
I was looking for a cd player I could also use in my car and it was either this or the Panasonic SX series. Ultimately chose this because of the Sony name. Not a good choice tho' imho.

First of all, the pros:
1.Reasonably skip resistant
2.Looks good
3.Battery life is good.
4.Good value for the price.
Now the cons:
1.I have noticed some skipping every now and then. Its good for small road bumps and little falls but heres the funny part, while the designers have made a good anti-skip, they have failed to make the battery flap strong. So if it falls down, you're good as long as the battery flap stays intact. Otherwise, it simply knocks the batteries out of place and the unit stops alltogether !!!
2. While trying to install it in my car, I found the clutter of wires extremely annoying.
3. The lack of a backlit display reduces usefulness in a car.
4. The remote is really basic, no volume control or anything. Just forward, back and stop.
5. The annoying beep which others have mentioned. can be quite jarring in a car.
6. Replacing cds isnt very easy.
7. No pause function. You have to stop it but I must admit, it does get back to the earlier point. + the annoying beeps of course !!