Excellent radio, phenomenal battery life, incredible durability.

Weak CD bass and cruddy supplied headphones.

I bought this CD player (mine is a D-FJ61, not a 65) in June of 2001 for some major trips I had planned for the summer. I bought it to replace my Sony D-EJ611 that didn''t have a radio, and as I listen to the radio more than CDs, this seemed like a logical choice. I only buy Sony products and come hell or high water, I will NEVER buy anything else! And trust me, this thing has been to hell and back and never failed me once. It fell off a friend''s Honda Accord onto concrete and survived...3 TIMES! I trudged through pouring rain, drenching humidity, airplane rides at 35,000 feet, rattling around school in my backpack and more things than I can mention here and has never failed! The battery life is incredible, the radio reception is top notch, the portability is astounding and volume goes up high enough for those real head-banging songs. My two small complaints are the facts that CD bass is not up to snuff and the headphones that came with it aren''t worth anything! So, I bought some Street-style headphones and am very satisfied. I am very satisfied! SONY RULES!

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When not on second mega bass level the sound is great. It is crisp and clear. The am/fm radio is sweet, i use the inline remote control and the rechargable battaries all the time, the design is cool too

The only weakness I could find with this is when you put mega bass on the second level, the music sounds unnatural and distorted.

Everyone should get this CD Player. It may not have the banging bass that "groove" series may have, but this is still a must buy. At crutchfield it ws originally 120, but i subscribed to crutchfield and got 15% off. If you do like huge bass, without distortion go with the sony "groove" series. But personall y i like this one better than groove series because this came with, (1) Sony rechargable batteries(you can recharge them when they are in the player), (2) Inline remote control, (3) AM/FM radio. There are many other things i could go on about, but you can check oout more stuff here, (its the link to the cd player page at crutchfield.)


http://www.crutchfield.com/cgi-bin/S-wZx5CCBOpFj/ProdView.asp?s=0&c=4&g=10220&I=158DFJ65&o=M&a=0

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I had a sony discman from two years ago with the sound position "groove" on it and it was almost as good as this. Bass was worlds better on my old one too. but it didnt have a radio on it like the D-FJ65

FM/AM digital tuner, ni-cd recharge batteries. only skipped 2 or 3 times ever.

not ni mh recharge batteries, basic remote control. no lcd screen, playback/sound options etc. only 5 am presets and 25 fm(unnessicary). thick unit

good product. i am sick of it now becoz i want a minidisc. top of the range tuner cd walkman from sony currently. if u want to buy thsi unit off me, email andrewharrisharry@hotmail.com
thanx :)

good sound! small but thick, am/fm radio and rechargeable batteries. it rarely bounce (only when i am jogging).

cheap plastic finish, no lcd pane.

it's a good product. i have it for more then one year, and i didn't have any problems with it yet.
past experience with another sony portable cd, showed me that this products does not last more 2.5 years.

Durability! Strong tuner signal. Superb construction. Never skips!

SOUND (especially bass: long story)

I have never bought a portable cd player that has withstood this much abuse! I am very greatful to the designers that have engineered this cd player to be so durable. About skipping: there is none. I have never, and I mean NEVER had this cd player skip, anywhere. And I don't even have the g-protection activated. However, the sound engineers were asleep or smoking some strong pot when they they installed this heap sound processor. I just bought a pair of rather large Koss headphones that up the bass about 10 times (upped...tastefully). Here is the deal. Whenever the bass boost is not on, the treble sounds incredibly muffled, and there is absolutely NO bass, at all. The only reason I put the sound on this setting is to avoid the incredibly atrocious sound that emitts from my headphones when bass is at the highest level. The bass sounds great when there is no mids or highs playing (such as that at the beginning or ending of a song). Although, when any sound above 90 Hz whatsoever is heard, the bass just cuts right through, and in many instances, eliminates voices or instruments being played. This is quite disturbing, but at the full bass mode, the treble seems to go a lil bit higher. Nevertheless, there is nothing I can do. My philips sounded phenomenal. However, it lasted 4 months! My advice is to get this cd player, only if you want to hear music at an incredibly low volume. Otherwise, buyer beware.

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good anti skip feature

Cheap plastic construction. On some units the lid does not seal properly to the base, you can feel the lid nudge a little when you grad the cd player.
On low volume listening (very low, I have sensitive ears), one channel has stronger volume compared to the other channel, very obvious.

I have a D-FJ61, not a 65. But the base unit is the same, except 61 doesn't come with a remote and rechargeable batteries.

Very good sound quality overall. Good anti skip feature. Radio reception is a little weak. Hard to use manual tuning.

My biggest complaint is that at low volumes, close to the base volume, the two channels do not give equal sound volumes, one channel has sound, the other channel can be completely silent. If you crank up the volume just a little bit, the difference in sound volume is still very obvious. This gets annoying after a while. When you crank up the volume more, the higher overall volume masks this discrepancy. I guess something is wrong with the wiring. I tested out several units, and all had the same problem.

And yes, the lid does not close properly, on several units I tested.

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A Panasonic

awesome sound, never yet heard it skip, remote is great plus am fm, and rechargable

remote doesnt have a clip

awesome