RCA Lyra 1.5 GB MP3 Player (USB 2.0)

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Manufacturer: RCA
Price at amazon.com: $249.99
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New from $168.00

List price $299.99



Product Features:

• 1.5 GB micro jukebox
• Stores up to 50 hours of music, and doubles as a data sorage device
• Uses high speed USB 2.0 connection for ultra-fast downloads
• Built-in lithium ion rechargeable battery for up to 10 hours of playback
• Blue, backlit LCD display

Product Description:

Average Customer Rating:

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Comment: Disappointing Rating:
I'll admit that the storage capacity is nice and the price fits my budget, but the product is inferior in every meaning of the word.

1. The audio driver (ie: sound quality) is cheap. Infact the volume doesn't even go very loud. And at the very top range of the volume, music becomes slightly distorted. In addition, the bass and depth of the sound is poor. For a technology that should excell past the quality of CD players, my old Sony CD walkman does a better job than the RCA. Much better.

2. I own a Mac and this thing is NOT mac compatable, dispite the "mac compatable" label and the mac logo on the side of the box. You can drag and drop songs onto the player with a mac, but you cannot update the firmware, you cannot organize the songs, and mac's "sync" program does not reconize it as a device; even though this program is compatable with cell phones, mp3 players, iPods, PDA's, etc. Not only that, but there is NO mac support online....NONE.

All I can say is that I am disappointed with my purchase and I wish i had an iPod right now (even though they are more expensive, at this point I think it would have been worth it).

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Comment: Worst mp3 player on the market Rating:
I purchased the RCA lyra mini-jukebox six months ago for $200 and it has entirely and completely died on me. I contacted RCA about a replacement and they were unhelpful and unfriendly in addressing my problem. Their only solution was to pay $60 to have the unit replaced, with no guarantee of how long the unit would last after that. I would never purchase this product again, as it was slow, had terrible sound quality, was difficult to use while doing anything active, and came with terrible software. I will never purchase anything RCA made again, and I hope readers of this will never purchase this product.

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Comment: I love it - but it has to go Rating:
This is the 2nd RCA lyra jukebox that I will be returning to the store today - within a two week span. The first one I had - the hard drive crashed within 3 days and could not be reset (only had 20 - 30 songs on it). I went to the store and exchanged it for the same player thinking that it had been damaged during shipping, but here it is less than a week later and this one has done the same thing. So I think I will try a different brand this time around. I wish it wouldn't keep crashing because I really liked the sound of it, but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

Posted at November 11, 2003 07:58 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)