Sony Walkman® D-NE10 Personal CD Player

Pros: Gorgeous, thin, and almost never skips. Comes with a remote and useful ATRAC software.

Cons: Expensive. Sound quality not quite as good as you'd expect. External battery pack a disgrace.

The Bottom Line: Ultra-stylish, compact and great sound for its size - Sony quality. If you don't mind some awkward design, and want a top-end CD player to last years, it's unbeatable.

Review: I was bought this CD player as a gift, to replace the excellent S ony D-E441 Discman that got stolen at the start of 2004. To begin with, this is a seriously good-looking CD player. The overall design is 21st-century ...