I have had the Panasonic SL SX420 for awhile now, and I am very happy with its performance. I was looking for a cd/mp3 portable player that would be sylish, with long lasting batteries and with a good anti-skip system. SL SX420 offers all of it. The player has a similar design as other Panasonic cd players with the main function buttons (memo, mode, eq, play, stop, ff, rew, nad volume)on the front of the player. The only functions that are on the side of the cd player are hold and open button. Some of the functions (volume, hold, eq, play/stop, ff, and rew) are also on the remote control which really makes it easy to control the cd player when you have it in your pocket or in your backpack. The sound quality of the discman is excellent and very clear. It has s-xbs, s-xbs+, live, an normal eq settings. The volume goes all the way up to 25 which makes it loud enough to not hear anything around you. There are two more things that make this cd player impressive. The battery life is amazing. It goes up to 90 hours for MP3 playback, and up to 50 hours for regular audio cds. I used to use rechargable batteries for my previous cd players but I have not tested it on this one yet since the regular ones last so long. The battery life is displayed on the player's lower display, so you always know how much more batteries you have left. And finally, Panasonic did really good job with the anti-skip system. I can do almost everything with this cd player without making it skip. People who run with cd players have probably experienced the skipping with some older cd players but my SL SX430 has not skipped once yet. I love this cd player and would recommend it to everyone who does not want to spend a fortune on a good mp3 cd player but wants to get a quality item.
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Advantages: Sturdy**Good Sound Quality**Stylish Design**Decent XBS System**No skips even if I try! **Gives good volume Disadvantages: Sub par earphones
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