Philips eXpanium EXP303 Review

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Philips eXpanium EXP303
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trgz.'s Review of Philips eXpanium EXP303 CD & MP3 Player

13th Feb 2003

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Sound Quality
    5 stars
Good Points

Signal-Noise, Sound Quality


Bad Points

Slow to skip through very long tracks, slight pause between tracks on playback of MP3's (CDA's are fine) - the included in-ear phones


General Comments

Got a Philips Expanium EXP303/05 - marvellous player - paid 100 GB pounds but it did come with car adapter kit (audio & power leads) though unfortunately has no line-out like my old Sony Walkman so in-car playback takes a bit of fiddling to get right. Nice layout with the main play buttons sensibly placed. No backlit display. I don't miss the ID tags. This will play long tracks (I have 1 album that I had to burn as a single track at over 40mins with no prob) though the skip forward/reverse is slow (it doesn't get quicker the longer you hold the button down). DBB bass boost works well - though I find I hardly ever need to use it. Never seem to need the ESP (anti-skip) when playing MP3's. I generally use Philips CDR-80 discs (700mB) but it will play those blue TDK ones that cause some DVD's and CD players a problem. I'm running it on Uniross 1700mAh NiMH batteries with no problem (they even seem to last longer than duracell!) battery life is allegedly up to twice that of the 200 series. Has a battery life indicator which is useful. Having read other reviews I suppose the button around the edge (volume, drawer catch, hold/resume) could be a little more proud but I have no problem with them. Shuffle/repeat modes are good. Seems to cope well with various bitrates though I use 192kbs CBR. Slight pause between tracks in MP3 mode, though not as bad s the manual suggested, means life/mix/ambient albums etc are interrupted. Wouldn't be without it. One other unrelated thing - do not touch the Ministry of Sound MP3 players - especially the cheapest one with built in radio - the hiss/noise between and during tracks is unbearable.

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