term of service. sound quality. price.

time.

alright, i say knock jensen if you must, but currently ive had this unit for almost 10 years, no less than 8, and it just now stopped playing cd's all together. its been between 3 vehicles in its life and it was a handmedown to me. considering ive put almost 200,000 miles on my truck mostly with it on, this little unit has served its purpose well. had some error o1s in there, and just earlier this year the volume up button decided to go nuts, but i found the remote again and that solved that. rarely the button on the unit gets moved some how and i get blasted, but its less than 1 time a month. the display sucks in daylight unless the sun is at your back. i admit that. but all things considered, running stock speakers and 2 12" subs from an amp, the little system sounded better than most house systems. highs were alittle shotty but it was stock. expected. just recently...like the end of last month it decided it wouldnt play certain cds, and id fight with the track skip and it would read it after a minute, but last week, caput all together. from someone who doesnt give a '''' less about brand names or icons, in my opinion, it deserves to be retired with full military honors. mine was a frigin trooper.

*Good Sound, *Easy to use, *"Cheap."

*Can't see display in the daytime, *Breaks after 2 months, *Doesn't like to work, *Too many errors, *occasionally EATS CDR Discs. "Do Not Ever Buy This Product!"

I'm glad to see that I am not the only one with these problems! I bought the Deck about a year ago, and 2 months into owning it it started acting up. first it would just freeze in the middle of a song, and I had to eject and reinsert the disk again to get it play. then I started getting error01 every once in a while. after about 6 months it would refuse to play anything but the radio for days ata time. like it had a mind of its own and was LAZY! Now I get the error "No MP3 CD" all the time, and I havn't been able to play anything but the radio for a month now. How can jensen make such a horrible product and not recall it? Too bad jensen went bankrupt, otherwise we could all launch a mass lawsuit on them for selling bogus products. Also it would overheat a lot of the time and stop working. I was impressed with the sound quality and ease of navigation, but dissapointed in not being able to search through a track. I would never buy another Jensen Product ever again. I'm going with kenwood or pioneer next, hopefully the little extra money will be worth it in headaches.

Good sound, easy to use, good price(at the time).

Too many issues with playing CD's

I bought the unit almost 2 years ago to play MP3 cd's on my lengthy drive to and from work. From the beginning it would have error01 about once a week when playing MP3 cd's. Would have to press the reset which cleared out all settings, annoying but tolerable. About 8 months ago started acting worse. No longer had error messages, it just said CDPLAYER on the display but played no music. could eject/insert disk all day long, no change. If you left the disc in, it might decide in a few days to start playing. Finally had not played a cd in weeks, took it back to best buy. Lucky I had the 4yr plan on the warranty. They are giving full purchase price towards unit of my choice...probably a Pioneer. When purchased, it was by far the lowest priced in-dash MP3 unit. When the unit was working, it was great. Had good sound, nice display, was easy to navigate controls, intuitive. I liked the Aux input on the front faceplate, very handy for connecting portable audio units. you get what you pay for.

Great sound at first Remote control MP3 for cheap

IT JUST STOPS WORKING!

At first I was totally amazed by the sound quality for such a cheap price, but then little things started going wrong. I would just stop playing my cd's sometimes. I mean it would still be playing but there would not be any sound. This was an annoyance, but I could fix it by ejecting and reinserting the cd. Then it started to switch to AUX ny itself-once again a pain, but bearable. Now it is a year and 3 days after I bought it and it will not play cd's at all. It just says NO MP3 CD. And the warranty is only for a year from purchase date.

NONE

Volume up gets stuck (had to remove button inside of faceplate) Cant see the display in the day Decides when it wants to play a disc and that aint too often.

Sorry - I lied in the review. I had it for sale on e-bay and used this this link to show how good it was. Well I lied. I will never buy another Jensen product. Cheap Junk

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Never Skips Clear Sound Quality Remote Works Great Flashinf Security Light With Face-Plate Removed

Yes, the face plate is a little dull in the day.

Well I honestly have had no problems with the unit. It seems people only write reviews when the product fails in some way. If everyone wrote a review that did not have problems we could get a better feel of the products out there.

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At least the radio works

Volume goes haywire, CD player quits

I bought 2 of these less than a year ago, and both have failed. After a few months the volume will go haywire either up or down. Then the CD player will quit for no reason. DO NOT BUY !!!!!!!

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* Good sound quality

* MP3 navigation * No advance inside MP3s * Hard to read display * Problems with reliability

I was very impressed with this CD player in the beginning, great sound and I loved the MP3 feature. However, after a year it started to act up. The face plate is the trouble and I see from other reviews that this is common. The problem I have is that the volume up button is broken and will sometimes stick. Also I, too, get error 01 a lot on MP3 playback. I do not like the navigation for MP3s and I do not like that you can not advance in an MP3, only skip from one to the other. Sometimes I listen to 30 minute long lectures on MP3 and if it messes up near the end that is very agrivating. The faceplate is hard to read in anything but ideal situation (It's great at night, but if there is ANY glare or bright light it's impossible to read.). Also where has Jensen gone???

Good playback, easy to use.

The face plate stops working after a few months.

I got this player over a year ago and initially I was very pleased with it, however after a few months the face plate stopped working. It lost the display and none of the buttons save eject would work. After about a week it wouldn't play at all. Luckily I bought an extended warranty at Best Buy. I had it replaced and it worked fine for about 3-4 more months. Then the same thing happened. I got it replaced again and after a few months the SAME THING happened again only now I can't even eject the CD and it won't play, etc. Best Buy has since stopped selling it and now I have to have it sent out for repairs. I would never buy another Jensen product after the hassle of this one.

NO Skipping when I hit bumps. MP3/CD-R/CD-RW playback is a BIG plus. Sound quality seems no diferent than my Pioneer super tuner. Its worth the $50 paid for it.

Can't figure out how to set the MP3 playback to random. Tons of bad reviews got me worried. Jensen.com does me no good when trying to get a manual.

So far so good, but I have a bad feeling about it. One thing I must say about this deck is I didnt expect it to sound as good as it does. Another thing is after inserting a CD-R with like 100 mp3s on it I went for a long drive and hit many many potholes and bumps and could never get this thing to skip but only once when I hit a Cattle Guard at like 50mph. My brother has a Pioneer (which I love BTW) but his deck seems to skip if a bug hits the windshield, so I am very very glad about mine not skipping. Another pain in my rear is that this "display unit" did not come with the remote or the manual so trying to figure out what the buttons do has been a headache. If I start getting all the problems others are having I will go get myself a high dollar Pioneer. One last thing HEY JENSEN fix your website so I can download the manual.

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