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From: gwu@clyde.ATT.COM (George Wu)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: PO'ed at Sony
Summary: Sony DT-3 evaluation
Message-ID: <31842@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 88 02:39:59 GMT
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     Well, here's my say about Sony's DT-3 portable CD player while my
compilation finishes (or rather, while it doesn't):

	I like it because . . .
		. . . It sounds great compared to a portable cassette player.
		. . . I can plug it into my car's stereo and crank away in
		      traffic.
		. . . I can crank away when I type inane Usenet articles while
		      waiting for compiles to not finish.
		. . . Comes with a Sony Rechargeable battery which eliminates
		      the need to by batteries. It'll eventually die like all
		      rechargeables, but by then, they'll be making solar
		      powered ones the size of a dime. Well, maybe a nickel.

	I don't like it because . . .
		. . . Like all Sony products, the only thing holding the jacks
		      in place is solder. In fact, today, I dropped the bloody
		      thing about three feet to a hard floor. (First time
		      since I bought it a three months ago.) A connection in
		      the jack for the left channel broke loose. Took me a
		      bloomin' hour an' a half to find which solder was bad.
		      And now, another connection's broken loose not six hours
		      later.
		. . . Skips like a six year-old. Placing it flat on a desk,
		      the slightest vertical tap and off it goes. Horizontally,
		      it takes a sledge to make it skip. Incidentally, in the
		      store, I lined up all the Sony models plus a couple of
		      other brands, and skip-tested. No, the salesman didn't
		      mind, and the DT-3 and DT-10 seemed about identical. The
		      lower priced Sony's and other makes seemed a bit more
		      skip prone, but not by leaps and bounds.
		. . . AM/FM reception is better with the tin box Pop gave me
		      back in the Stone Age.
		. . . It's late, and the blasted compilation still isn't done.

Just some background, I bought it about three months ago at Crazy Eddie's.
(Yeah, the guys making some of the world's most obnoxious commercials.) I
also own a Pioneer PD5030, which I bought a couple of years ago. The Sony
Portable cost me $230. Afterwards, the salesman admitted that the econo-Sony
(DT-1?), which they were listing at $199, could be sold for as little as $170
and still break even. So haggle with the guy, even if you do want to just go
home and have some dinner.

-- 
					George J Wu

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