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| Brand: Grundig
Category: CE
Buy New: $249.99
New (1) Used (1) from $69.98
Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 40453
Media: Electronics
Batteries: 4
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.1 x 3.7
MPN: ego 4000
Model: ego 4000
UPC: 750254612343
EAN: 0750254612343
ASIN: B00008V6TI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new in factory sealed box with full manufacturer's warranty, superb sound in style, wake up to your favorite music, reduces morning stress, a must buy!!!
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| Customer Reviews:
 versatile but problem prone October 17, 2005
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
When it works, it works very well. My first unit would not play cd's on a consistant basis. It was replaced by merchant. The 2nd unit worked very well for 5 months after which it no longer read a cd or mp3cd. It is interesting than the owner's manual does NOT note that mp3cd's are playable; only standard cd's. The speakers are a joke, but the included headphone produce a great sound. They become uncomfortable after 1-2 hours and the cord is very short. This unit was used by an age 50+ consumer with no misuse and was cleaned regularly. The radio's tuner is weak as FM stations 20 miles+ away were audible only on mono.
Liked it until it broke May 12, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I used this product for a year and a half and was very happy with it. Batteries lasted 6-8 hours. The speakers aren't boom box quality but for the size the sound are plenty big for a hotel room and much better than a standard hotel clock radio.
However, last week it just stopped playing the CDs. Looks like a motor problem as it looks like the disc is trying to spin but can't quite make it. I should say that it has taken a lot of use the past few months on several camping trips so it has been exposed to direct sun, humidity etc. But I had hoped it would have lasted longer.
I'm going to switch to a hard drive MP3 player since the mechanics of CDs can be delicate.
 I HATE IT March 12, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I hate this contraption and I stupidly let 30 days pass before I realized how much I hate it. Now I start every morning with a "boy I hate this thing." Why? well here are few reasons why: You cannot read the numbers unless you are within 18" and to get a backlight you must depress "any button"---not a bad idea but horribly executed. The backlight lasts four seconds--way too fast in the night and "any button" is a lie because you can't press "stop" nor the "on" for radio or cd without starting a whole other process which you then, in the dark, have to figure out how to terminate. The cd player spends more time "reading" your cd than it does playing it. The "tuner/band" button is very sensitive and lord knows what you will wake up to, the screech of a not tuned in AM station happens way too often. The worst of it all was I called Eton to tell them how much I hated it, just thought they might want to know. I had a friendly conversation with a very nice receptionist who assured me they wanted me to be happy and would do something, but first she wanted me to talk to the engineer/designer. So I waited a week for him to return my call and he was quite rude saying if there is nothing wrong with it (everything is wrong, but they don't count that) there is nothing they can do. He offered to trade mine for a different one just the same and I said "why bother." It was a classic story of "I made it so it is by definition without errors--now leave me alone,just buy it and be thrilled with my brilliant design.
Many CDs skip, most CD-Rs skip; short battery life March 10, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I also received this as a Christmas gift. We quickly found out about the short battery life in Paris. Fortunately I had a 240/50-to-110/60 AC/DC adapter. Also, it is very bad at playing CD-Rs that I have created and which play fine on a 1995 model Magnavox portable CD player (!). It has less trouble with regular pre-recorded CDs.
 This is a one of a kind player. I love it. March 2, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've read the other reviews of this product and feel a need to defend this gadget. I've owned mine for about three years and I love it. I use it nightly. The application I find this perfect for is Audio Books stored on MP3. This of one of the only small, portable MP3 players that has it's own speakers. I go to bed listening to audio books and I don't want to wear a pair of earphones or lug a set of extra powered speakers around. However just slightly larger than a CD Walkman when folded closed it is small enough to work great on an airline trip, where headphones are preferable to the endless roar of the planes engines.
The big gripes I've seen repeated in the other reviews are:
1) Poor radio reception.
2) No Bass from the mini speakers.
3) Short Battery life.
1) I never use this to listen to the radio, so I won't comment on it good or bad. But there are thousands of good and cheep radio's on the market so if you need a radio, go buy a radio.
2) I'll agree with the poor bass reproduction in the speakers. Small cone's yield small bass. It's a physics thing. However when I travel and use this to play music in a hotel room, it's been good enough to satisfy the want of a little background music.
3) Battery Life. I'm surprised by the times listed by other reviewers. I get about 30-35 hours of use when I'm on the road using the AA's. When at home or in a hotel, the AC adapter removes the concern about battery life completely.
Perhaps this is because I primarily play MP3 disks which it spins up to read into it's buffer then spins down until it needs more data.
Anyway I wanted to toss in my two cents, as this is a great gadget for audio book listeners, and I would hate to see someone miss out on it because some reviewers expected the performance of a boom box or home stereo out of a Walkman sized device.. It's my hope that we'll see more devices like this on the market and the price point to come down a bit. But bottom line, I've got my monies worth, and if anyone doesn't want theirs, I'd be glad to take it off their hands.
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