Panasonic SL-MP80 Personal CD Player

Pros: Great sound and light weight

Cons: Headphones that come with it are its only weak point

The Bottom Line: A great buy price-wise with great sound & battery life.

Review: Going back to 1970,I have always had great luck with anything audio by Panasonic. I have owned several of their cassette radio/recorder/player units. The SL-MP80 is my 2nd portable CD player. The 1st was the Panasonic SL-CT480 which after a number of ...

Pros: Trouble-free, high-performance CD personal player. Very resistant to abuse. Long battery life. Skip free.

Cons: Supplied headphones not the highest quality but not unusable either. I replaced them.

Review: The Panasonic SL-MP80 personal CD player has been the most trouble-free, high-performance consumer digital device I have dealt with in recent years. Accurate playback, proper rendition all the time. No matter the mode--CD, WMA, MP3. A few days ago ...

Pros: Utilitarian solution for playing MP3's in car, while biking, etc.

Cons: When you see "utilitarian", think "bare minimum of helpful features".

The Bottom Line: For a cheap CD/MP3 player, not bad. Features and usability take the hit for appending the word "cheap".

Review: It seems like everything in stereo equipment today is made or broken on the features. So here they are: --playback of mp3's on standard / burned CD-ROM/R/RW's --will ignore 'other' files on a CD than mp3's (and audio tracks) --buttons allow skipping ...