Because I have a lot of CDs, mostly classical CDs, and because I wanted to continue to use my Boze Acoustic Wave Music System I hooked up several CD players over the last several years to my Boze system by using the accessory port. All of them had failings. Every inexpensive portable CD player, when the last track of the CD was being played and when the right (for me wrong) vehicle went by, the CD suddenly stopped playing. It was, to say the least annoying to be listening to the last track of a symphony, for example, and it just stopped.
As a consequence I have been looking for a CD player that would not stop suddenly when a vehicle went by. The pictured FiiO Multifunctional Stereo CD player is almost the CD player I was hoping for. Almost. The FiiO, which was relatively expensive, does not stop on the last track when a vehicle goes by it does pause, however, and the sound quality consequently sounds like one of those old 78 vinyl pressings when certain vehicles pass by on the busy street on which I live.
Now for some more bad news. I really don’t like the fact that the on/off button also serves as a mode change button. It is easy, at least for elderly me, to not press down on that button long enough leading to a change in mode and minutes spent trying to the node back to the one I am using to play CDs through my Boze speakers. Nor do I like the fact that the function icon of the keys—white on black—on the player are really difficult for an elderly person like myself to see because they are small. Finally, the CD player does have audible clicks you can hear when the CD ends at the last track. These are not audible, however, unless you are up close to it.
Now for some good news. Aesthetically the CD player looks nice (though I prefer quality to looks). The CD player sounds quite good running through my Boze system. This means that I am glad to have purchased it even though it does have certain failings.
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