Price Paid:  $75.00 from e-bay

Summary:
Some good features. Reads ID tags and sub folders. OK sound but not loud enough. Bottomline; Don't waste your money. If you do, buy a 2 year replacement warranty. I promise you'll use it.

Strengths:
Can read ID Tags so you know what folder and what song. That's about it.

Weaknesses:
Mine, like so many others just decided to stop working. Won't power on. I had this player for almost 1 year of moderate use. I expect more durability.

This durability issue may explain why they dumped their old image and changed from Sonic Blue to Rio Music. New URL and everything. No CD MP3 players on the new site at all. Anyway I'll never buy another Rio product again. Too Flimsy and unreliable. Also the anti-skip feature was crap. Did not work. If you walked too fast it would skip. In fact it would skip between weight machines at the YMCA. LAIM product.

Similar Products Used:
JVC & Panasonic. I bought a panasonic for $50.00 with the replacement warranty this time from Best Buy. I don't want to get stuck with garbage again. Goodbye to Rio.

Price Paid:  $99.00

Summary:
I'm on my 4th player now. purchased in march for my daughter this sp90 works only for 5 to 6 weeks and gets defective. Changed or repaired every time and gets defective again. I wonder who sets the quality level of these products at Riovolt perhaps time for a review of his/her performance.

Strengths:
when it works it performes well

Weaknesses:
limited life time 4-6 weeks

Price Paid:  $40.00 from online

Summary:
Its a superb discman. Nice anti skip mechanism. Sound quality is better than SONY. In the same price as SONY you can get a nice CD player capable of playing MP3 too.

Strengths:
As I mentioned sound quality ie good.

Weaknesses:
Adapter polarity is missing. How a company can do such a big mistake? They want to sel those $10 adapter on there site which will not last more than a 1/2 year. I have to purchase a new one just after 6 months.

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Great player, If you want a backlit lcd or a upgrade, get the SP100. SP90 and Sp100 are identical, except for the backlit lcd, upgrades and color.


But think, what do you need an upgrade for? MP3's are here to stay for a long time. Mp4's are already out, but hardly anyone know of them, and music in this format is imposible to find. If they, or some other format will catch up, it is going to be in couple of long years.

Strengths:
The price. I paid $32 on Ebay. My player is refurbished, but I never had any problems.

Weaknesses:
VERY MINOR - the LCD will not display any letters that are not english. This sucks for me, be I have few Polish mp3 cd. The lcd will display the title,but if the chracter is not found in the English alphabet, there will be a blank space in place of it.
VERY VERY MINOR - Th dancing figures on th lcd are anoying, insted that line coul have been used like the 2 above.

Similar Products Used:
Remote - You can use the original remote orthe one from SP100.

Price Paid:  $0.00 from Won in a contest

Summary:
Contrary to the other posted reviews, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this player. It is absolutely average, but will work just fine in your car. Rio doesn't suck.

Strengths:
Plays cd's with track info. ESP, and clear sound. Doesn't skip for me.

Weaknesses:
No backlight

Similar Products Used:
Sony discman