Not a good CD player
Pros:
Good form factor. Good radio. Excellent battery life.
Cons:
CD player erratic, no CD-R, MP3 support.
No sleep timer for CD. No dual time.
The Bottom Line:
Buy it if you use only the radio. CD player is below average.
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Author's Review
After a lot of research I settled on the Sony ICF-CD2000, because I wanted a small portable battery-operated CD player/clock radio able to operate on 110-240volts. (This one uses an external AC adapter(110v), which I can easily replace that with a 240v adapter.)
It is plasticky, but shape and size are good, looks good too. Radio reception is good.
CD player is hopeless; it takes anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds to start playing a CD. Sometimes when a CD is popped in, it just spins for more than a minute without sound and then stops! Pressing 'play' the next time usually works (on the same CD). It doesn't reliably play CD-Rs, that is, most of the time it spins up CD-Rs then stops without sound. No MP3 support. I wonder what happens if alarm is set to CD and it can't play the CD, at that time!
It has a sleep timer (15,30,60,90) - but works only for radio, not for CD.
It has a world time feature. This is really dumb, since the world time can only be set to hourly offsets from local time! How would you use this if world time needs to be set to half hour offset from local time - for example, if local time is GMT, then there is no way to set world time to that in India which is 5 and a half hour before GMT.
Get this only if you don't need the CD player. I'll be returning this - the pity is without the above problems this product would have been perfect for me.
