Review on Panasonic SL MP80 CD MP3 Player by Matt Crawford

It must be hard being a gadget designer. You take a great CD player and decide to add the ability to play MP3 and WMA files, sell a new model for the same price, and then to your surprise you get a bunch of whiners complaining why you don't have it have enabled . watch porn movies and wash dishes at the same time, all for the same low price. The point is that it is a very reliable CD player that can also play MP3 and WMA files. The user interface is very simple, just like a regular CD player. Yes, if you had 1000 songs, you would have to press the forward button 999 times to get to the last one. But it's not intended for a specialized MP3 player. For this you have an iPod, RCA Lyras, jukeboxes Rio, Archos. If you listen to a lot of MP3s, you need a dedicated MP3 player, not this one. This is for those of us who listen to a lot of CDs on the go and occasionally burn a CD-R or two of our favorite MP3s. Time to get to 1000th song”, put a dozen songs in each folder. Panasonic automatically assigns an album to each folder, and you can skip to the next album by pressing and holding the fast-forward button. As for the loudness criticism, I think it's a very personal thing. I listen to music through headphones for about 1.5 hours a day, mostly on the way to and from work. I consider myself to have extremely good hearing - at least that's what my company doctor tells me - so the Panasonic headphones supplied sound quite loud to me at volume level 18, even in a noisy subway like train #1 or train #1. from old N trains here in New York. But I usually use Aiwa headphones with bass boost and built-in volume control (bought at Centure 21 downtown near the World Trade Center), and everyone I've had the chance to try this combo has said that the volume is even more than enough is at medium settings. So I think you should try it yourself. If you've been enjoying loud music directly over your ears for years, the sad truth is that you should probably limit the amount of music you listen to and see a professional to restore some of your hearing skills. So here's my 2 cents. on the excellent SL-MP80. (The slightly cheaper SL-MP70 doesn't support WMA, but is otherwise identical. I have a longer review of this model because I ended up leaving it.) Sound quality is excellent, battery life is excellent (no battery swaps without removing the CD) and stylish Design. I think you will really like this CD player if you are not too hard of hearing.