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Guess I know what brand to recommend for her next purchase. WORTHLESS.
I've had good luck with my Onkyo surround sound system, but after doing a little reading on how Onkyo is treating its customers with this CD player, I have to say I'll never purchase another unit of theirs again. This is the second Onkyo CD player my Grandparents have owned, and also the second Onkyo POS to die in 3 years.
Doesn't recognize CD's, the Pause light keeps going on/off randomly, it turns itself on, shows EEPROM-XXX:XX messages on the front, doesn't eject the tray half of the time, etc. I understand stuff happens, but FIX IT when it does happen.
The thing just goes haywire. My old 25 disc Pioneer changer that is all of 10+ years old is still working just fine.
Goodbye Onkyo.
Just started giving me messages "no disc", when there were clearly discs inside.By then it was too late for the return, plus it was a gift after all.I guess I kept hoping it will somehow "get better", since the friend, who gave me the CD player as a gift, really liked Onkyo, and trusted the quality of the brand, so I did not want to get rid of his gift 'just like that'. I was browsing Amazon electronics the other day, and just stumbled across this unit, and was completely shocked to see it is STILL being sold. and some of those replacement units STILL turned out to be rejects.So even though it has been stated in many different ways, let me repeat it once again:There is roughly 50/50 chance that your unit will be useless within several weeks to several months after purchase, and most likely you will not have your money refunded. Yes, it MIGHT BE a decent "quality audio" player - IF you manage to NOT get a lemon.Going by reviews on here, there is about one out of two chances of that happening, and in most cases the owners never got money back, just the product exchange if they were lucky. As I am now reading all these 1-star reviews I am glad I did not, since it obviously saved me lot more grief, frustration and wasted time on the phone with nothing to show for in the end anyway. How sweetly naive both of us were.
(of course it never 'got better', on the contrary, within about 10 months it stopped reading all of the discs altogether.).I just did not want to have to deal with it, so I never even attempted to call the customer support. which turns out to have been pretty smart thing to do. onkyo dx 390I got mine about three years ago for a Christmas, and pretty much within first two months it did THE VERY SAME THING that other reviewers mention. It will be more fun, and definitely less time-consuming and aggravating, than shopping for this thing, unpacking it, setting it up, and taking it to the dumpster shortly thereafter.(I am still a bit peeved. and that's why I am writing a review today, three years later after I threw the thing away. Unbelievable. can you tell.
after all those years of complaints. WOW. Why not just take the two benjis (the $100 dollar bills), and use them to light up a cigarette. Seeing just how blatantly indifferent attitude the company has toward taking care of their consumers is scandalous and reading all these reviews about it actually feels pretty appalling.But it is utterly incomprehensible to me, how a product, that is clearly so flawed and defective as this one, can STILL BE ON THE MARKET. . or a fireplace. :)
I bought a new Onkyo X- C390 early on March 2009,so I don't give a continously use to this CD Player.Maybe I play 30 times in 9 months, and three days ago, this item was absolutly out of control.First : the device turn it ON, by itself.And I can't turn OFF.SECOND: I contact the [.]., so they said ,I have to reset the device, pushing the STOP and ON/STANDBY Buttoms at same time.NOTHING ,the device gone wild, show up numbers, letters, ligths, everywhere on the front panel.So i on't know whats Wrong with this piece of crap.I prefer to buy another one, that send to the technician in my town, 'cause if I send to the Onkyo center,I have to pay a lot of money to ups, for delivering ( over 60 each,total $ 120 dollars) FOR REAL.THINK ABOUT THIS ITEM ,BEFORE YOU BUY IT.DON'T PUT YOUR MONEY IN THE CHINESE GARBAGE.
It would often skip two or three of the disks completely when fully loaded in the random shuffle mode. I bought this new less than a year ago. It now will not read or play any CD. It had problems reading certain CD's right off the bat. It always had issues with the 6-disk random shuffle. Spend a $100 more and buy a better player. This did not even last 1-year.
set up was a breeze. connected to an onkyo receiver, and kilipsch speakers, sounds fantastic
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