My nephew purchased a RCA RP2450 and I was so impressed with the sound that I bought my own. I have had this player for approximently six months now and all in all I am happy with it. It has very good volume with decent bass and three different bass boost levels. I have made 2 CD's with about 200 songs on each at all different bit rates and out of all those songs it has only failed to read six. It has yet to skip even once (hard to believe but true) - even in the car which has really impressed me. Neither my nephew or I have had any trouble with our players and we have both had them for about six months.The only con is that it doesn't come with an AC adaptor - although usually if I am using this unit I am on the go. I do wish that I would have done a little more research on portable MP3 players before I bought this one. ... It would have been nice to have had FM radio to go along with the CD player capabilities. ...