RCA RP2485 Personal CD Player

Pros: Inexpensive. Excellent sound. Excellent features.
Cons: No radio tuner. No carrying case. Low quality cassette adapter.

I received my RCA RP2485 compact disc player three weeks ago. Since then I have used it to play an MP3 encoded disc and a standard commercial music cd. The sound from this player is excellent. The RCA RP2485 has a built-in equalizer and a bass boost ...

Pros: Good value, nice size.
Cons: Some functions are somewhat difficult to use.

This was a present from my daughter who has been trying to move her father into the 21st century. Actually I had sort of asked for one. My primary uses or for listening while walking and music while waiting in airports and sitting in airplanes. ...

Pros: Almost everything about the unit...alphabetically orders the songs from the disc, great EQ's, the screen
Cons: A little big for our 'Mini' world, skips more often than an MP3 player

So far, I've had this player for just under 3 years. I think it is by far, the best mp3 cd player ever, and I will tell you why in a few different categories... DURABILITY: This is yet another area this player gleams in! Hell, I've had this thing ...

Pros: Looks pretty, worked great, when it worked.
Cons: Everything, made to last a drop on a pillow.

I had this CD player for about 2 months before it started acting up, in various ways. I only used it for my car attached to my cassette deck for travelling long distances. Right around the warranty time the cd player would not start up, would skip once started, and would shut off when it wanted to. So basically i had no control at all over a machine. I tried to return it to....ewwww...Kmart, but they said that it never existed and that somehow i bought a cd player that they never stocked, go figure, in Kmart. I tried calling the manufacturer, but since RCA was bought out by Thompson, i was unable to reach a real live person. SO then i sent the CD player via mail to the company that makes and distributes them, only to get it back unopened and beat to all H by the USPS.