Journey Portable CD Player, Long Lasting Battery, Headphones and FM Radio

I have gone down the rabbit hole of portable CD players, and many audiophiles online make it seem like if you want a somewhat decent one, you need to spend at least $200. I saw a video on this player here, and I decided to give it a shot, and I am not disappointed! It is a great size, the buttons feel good, it connects well with my portable Bluetooth speaker, and it is chock full of features that, for its price point, I think are awesome. I find the screen has a great amount of information. I am excited to try the TF card mode to essentially make this an MP3 player of my favorite CDs! If you’re an audiophile who is super particular about how stuff sounds, you may want to spend $500 on something else, but I am a regular dude who loves music, and I think the sound quality is great! The equalizer settings are a nice touch so that I can see what setting works best for any particular CD. The earbuds are of good construction, and the little comic and stickers are a great touch too. I love feeling honored as a consumer with cool bonus stuff. There is one thing that I am slightly concerned about with the Klim Journey: the charger port feels like it could break easily, so I would be mindful of that, especially when plugging it in. But besides that, this is a great portable CD player for the price. It is thoughtfully made with the CD user in mind, and that gets a 10 from me. So if you enjoy music and want to get back into your CDs, this is a great device to go with!

This portable cd player is fabulous! Sounds great with my wireless Samsung galaxy earbuds, and I can see the controls even in the dark. I purchased a few different portable cd players to test (and keep for various purposes) after I recently rediscovered my music cd collection (probably about 100 or so of various albums/genres including rock, pop, new wave, alternative, techno, country, soundtracks, blues, jazz, classical, etc.). It’s hard to believe that it has been over 10 years since I listened to any of them (once I switched to digital content on Apple devices - mainly playlists of favorite singles rather than whole albums). This portable cd player is the one. My favorite. My ultimate checklist included good performance/sound for its size, quality build, back-lit controls to see in dim lighting, fm radio when the mood strikes, the ability to connect wireless Bluetooth headphones, and all for a reasonable price. This one was the most expensive, but it has met all of my wants and expectations. The equalizer settings are a bonus with the variety of music cds that I have. Controls are fairly intuitive. At least I haven’t had to resort to reading the instructions yet. It’s nice that I have the option of recording to a micro sd card though I doubt I’ll use that feature. I’m still testing battery life, but I usually don’t wait until batteries are drained to plug in my devices. I’m pretty consistent with keeping my tech charged up and ready to go. I definitely recommend this portable cd player. And I’ll be sure to update my review if my opinion changes for any reason.

I really wanted to give this player 5 stars, but cannot. First, all the good or rather very good stuff. For this 75 year old reviewer, the audio quality of this CD player is really, really very good. Whether listening on Bluetooth speakers, earbuds, headphones or on my Honda Pilot (2017) audio system, everything sounded pretty damn good to me. Plus the 7 preset equalizer modes all add beneficial tweaks to what you hear listening to different genres of music. A real plus there! Connectivity to Bluetooth was easy for all my devices. All various Bluetooth speakers and earbuds connected quickly with no issues at all. Connecting to my 2017 Honda Pilot was by auxiliary and Bluetooth. I didn’t bother with fm connection on my Honda as I wasn’t interested in doing by fm. Bluetooth connectivity on the Honda was easy after I realized the Honda setup required me to disable my phone Bluetooth first. I guess the Honda only allows one connection at a time. I was fine with that. The Bluetooth connection sounded great on the Honda. The auxiliary connection did as well also. The player also plays those “TF” cards. They’re kind of a mini SD card. I setup a 2 gb card as a test. The manual states the player supports up to a 64 gb card. I loaded on 5 different albums and a 100 song playlist. I placed each in their own separate folder, labeled by title of course, and decided to copy the music files as mp3 format at 320 kbps, for this test. Learning curve in figuring out how to choose the particular album to listen to, but I caught on fairly quick. Well, the music sounded just great to me. I couldn’t be more satisfied. So, thus far this KLIM Journey CD player is just great. It is performing flawlessly for me. I like the compact size of this player. The buttons are a good size and function well with a solid response. There is a slight learning curve understanding what they do but that’s to be expected. The buttons light up to use as well as the display window. All nice and bright. They light up long enough to accomplish what you need and turn off after awhile. Nice. Oh, I almost forgot. This player also has FM radio that I put through its paces and I was able to get quite a few stations coming in nice and strong, clear sounding! Again, learning curve, but very doable. I spent a lot of time with the manual by my side running this player through its various features. On that I will say that the manual could be a little more straightforward in explaining things and the icons should be printed twice as large for my taste, but I wouldn’t take a star away for that as everything you need to get this player up and running is there. Which brings me to where I had a reason to knock off a star in my review. The battery!! KLIM states this player will give 8 to 14 hours of battery playback. Not in my experience. The best I could achieve was 6 1/2 hours. That was accomplished by using the supplied 3.5 mm cable to connect my speaker or use plug in earbuds or headphones. Anything Bluetooth, the best I could get was 5 1/2 hours of playback before the battery drained out. I suppose 5 or 6 hours should be ok, I guess. But, when the sales point says 8 to 14 hours, I’ll be a stickler and say that one should at least be getting the 8 hours as the minimum. So, I find the battery life disappointing. On that note, I will say that I contacted KLIM and they agreed that the battery should be performing better and they sent me another unit within a few days. They were very responsive and very nice to chat with. Unfortunately, the second player has performed the same as the first. The battery just can’t seem to give me any better than 6 1/2 hours of playback. At the price point of this player I will keep it as I really like the quality audio sound this player produces. It is well built and extremely compact and easily portable. KLIM did not require me to return the first unit, so actually I at least will get 14 hours of playback by continually swapping between the 2 units every 5 or 6 hours as the battery drains out. Fair enough! I do recommend the KLIM Journey CD player. Highly recommend. Just be aware that the battery may or may not deliver the 8 to 14 hours of playback . The player audio sounds better than any portable CD player I’ve owned previously. This players’ anti-skipping technology was great, I didn’t experience any skipping during playback at all. In closing I will say again that the tech support at KLIM was top notch and responded in reasonable time frame. I give them 5 stars for their customer support!

I have this portable CD Players: Sony D-EJ360 PSYC (2002), ONN CD Player (2020), HOTT CD611T (2021) and KLIM Nomad (2022). This is the BEST unit so far. The sound quality with the other additions, make this the best unit I owned so far. Compared with the KLIM Nomad, this one is very close in quality terms. THESE ARE THE NEW ADDITIONS: - It has different EQ profiles than the Nomad that provide greater versatility with different headphones or speakers. - The Bluetooth sound quality is MUCH better than the Nomad. I repeat; exceptionally BETTER! The audio fidelity Is very close to the headphone output signal or the bluetooth signal of my iPhone 13. THIS CD PLAYER ALSO PROVIDES THESE GREAT TOOLS FOR MUSICIANS OR ENTHUSIAST: - It lets you loop a passage from the track (A to B), that will repeat indefinitely. - It lets you decrease the tempo and pitch of the song, so you can transcript any part you want, sing it in another Key, or just enjoy a slower version of the song. And the fidelity is very good. - It lets you record to the micro-SD cart anything that you play from the CD (or the FM radio), with good quality! (MP3, 160 kbs). You can also buy another FM transmitter, so you can connect anything to it, to record it. MORE PROS: - Some radio stations offers texts info from the songs that are playing! - You can find replacement parts online, so you can fix the unit in the years to come ( battery and the Laser drive ). The parts have serial numbers that let you identify them. CONS: - Compared to the KLIM Nomad, the headphone gain is slightly lower (This doesn't apply to the FM output or Bluetooth signal, which has more gain. - The FM transmitter ONLY lets you transmit to five assigned stations. This is a drag, since the transmitter has problems if there's stronger signals from other FM stations in your area. In my area, all of them are taken by others, strong signals. Feedback to KLIM In my opinion, this is the best CD player I ever bought. Is closer to perfection! But in order to create the perfect unit, just raise a little bit the gain on the headphone output, and let the user select the FM Stations that he wants to transmit the signal. Also, having access to the AM radio will not hurt either!

This cd player is excellent, haven’t tried the Bluetooth yet but sound quality is very good and it came well packaged. I am so glad I decided to buy this brand.

Things I like: The buttons are all easily accessible Build quality is solid LCD screen is bright and easy to read Preset EQ levels are good Sound quality is pretty good Plenty of connection options for external speakers KLIM offers replacement parts on their website Included case and earbuds nice bonus I played CD'S from three different decades including some new remasters and had no issues with compatibility. Things I don't like: All of the buttons are backlit on the player, but the DIR, EQ, PROG FM-, and MODE FM+ are not lit evenly with the top and bottom of labels are slightly cut off and not fully illuminated. This is disappointing considering the players price. I am not getting anywhere near around 14 hours of battery life, playing only CD's I am getting just under 8 hours, which is acceptable. You could probably get around 14 hours just using the radio and mp3 player at medium volume. The player has randomly shut off three times on me while playing a CD, I typically listen to albums from beginning to end, and the player has shut off halfway through the last song on three different albums. When I hit play and restart the track, there is no issue. The player might have an automatic shut off function after an hour, not sure. The Radio works fine with wired headphones using the input jack with the radio label, but when I tried to use an external XHDATA antenna I would lose sound in the right channel with my headphones plugged into the standard jack. There are no audio issues when two sets of headphones are plugged in, so I guess if you have another pair of headphones lying around you can just use those as an external antenna.

Customer service was so amazing and understanding. The first one I was sent wasn't loading. I reached out to them and they had a new one in my hands in a week. Yes, it works just as advertised. I do have to use the earbuds that come with the product but, they are long enough. It's a good looking little player and the case is very well made. I really like the long battery life. Fun thing is I can share my music with the kid because of the double ear jack. Would purchase from them again.

Really cool! Purchased for my kids for a road trip. Has too many settings to be kid friendly. However, for an adult, easy to use, loads of listening options. I love that it has radio, bluetooth and cd. Battery life is excellent! It runs for days! Definitely worth the money.

Funciona bien.

Excellent quality and great performance, very satisfied with the purchase!!

Der Player arbeitet fast völlig geräuschlos und hat für ein tragbares Gerät einen guten Klang. Ich besitze das Gerät etwa zwei Jahre, hatte jefoch von Beginn an das Problem, dass CD's etwa ab der 60. Minute einfach abbrachen. Als ich ich wieder mal sehr geärgert habe, schrieb ich an die Firma Klim und bekam innerhalb einer Woche ein Ersatzgerät. Und das nach Ablauf der Garantie! Rin sehr zuvorkommender Service!!! Nochmals Danke dafür.

Excelente reproductor de CD buen sonido

My new car did not have a CD player OR a aux jack in, so the options of FM tuning or bluetooth were essential to my choice of the player. The CD player arrived and, alas, it did not work. I emailed the company direct, explained what was happening, they emailed back within 12 hours, said they would send out a new one immediately - and amazingly it arrived within 4 days (sent internationally!) - and everything worked as advertised. Could not be happier. I tried it with the radio first, which was OK, but none of the 4 tuning options were quite far enough from local stations for absolutely perfect sound. The bluetooth, on the other hand. worked like a charm - and didn't interfere with my phone's connection to the car. Thoroughly recommend the product, and applaud the outstanding customer service.