New Portable MP3 CD Player Boombox USB SD MMC Input NR
From NAXA
The NX-250 is an easy affordable way to provide hours of music listening entertainment. It features a top loading programmable CD player (which is MP3/CD-R/CD-RW compatible), an AM FM stereo radio, and two high performance speakers. It is equipped with a USB port and SD/MMC card slot which allows you to use external memory devices which have audio files downloaded on to them. The auxiliary input jack allows you to connect and amplify iPods, MP3 players, DVD players (3.5mm to RCA cable required), or any other compatible audio device. Anti-shock protection guarantees your CD/MP3 disc won't skip when the player is subject to vibration. It has a 20 track programmable CD and MP3 file memory and has all major playback functions.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #66987 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Naxa
NXP SD Boombox review
I'm always looking for SD chip player peripherals. This one has a nice feature set, and sounds pretty good as well in SD chip mode. FM radio mode doesn't sound as good. Cheap analog AM / FM tuner and volume, but that fits the price. The blue LCD display is a little hard to read.
Added annoyance: SD songs can end a few seconds early with a small "pop." Not sure why it happens to some songs and not others.
I'd be willing to pay more for more features, like better radio, better sound, and a dual alarm clock for travel. Add a weather radio band and it would be the perfect traveling companion. I'm hoping this technology takes off because carrying music in the SD format is very convenient, more convenient than fumbling with ipod peripherals.
A shoddy, ill-concieved piece of junk
This has been one of my most regretted purchases ever. The USB socket died after the first month. The MP3 decoder is incredibly buggy -- the many songs (even whole albums) it wouldn't play turned out to be the ones with album art embedded in the tags, and I suspect that the developer had never heard of VBR, either, because some of the songs are cut off and others continue silently long after they are done. Most songs begin with 2-second previews of music from the upcoming song, except in "random play" mode, where there are random chunks of the preceding song between songs. The "random play" mode, by the way, isn't very random; it mixes up the songs, yes, but in exactly the same order every time, and only for the entire CD -- there's no folder randomization.
All-in-all, this purchase was a huge mistake, and has just about convinced me to get an iPod and a dock, next time.
