One star knocke off for crappy CD player
589520
One star knocke off for crappy CD player... Other than that, its great. I think if you're spending over a grand on something, every part should be quality parts and work well. Since I guess they assumed most were going to be using it with an iPod, they put the cheapest CD player in there. It always starts skipping and you have to pop the cd in and out a couple times. It doesnt mess up every time but its annoying enough for me since the CD player is what I use as I don't have an iPod. I'll start a CD only to have to get up a few minutes later after the CD starts getting stuck and skips. If you don't plan on using CD player, this an awesome player. Gets lots of attention when friends are over and stuff. Great for parties etc. If you want something with a good CD player though, Id advise ya to buy something else.

UPDATE 12-16-15: So I had to come back and take another star off. Just over a year later and the CD player doesn't even work at all hardly. This is unacceptable for such an expensive piece of equipment. My sony stereo system which only cost me 150 bucks and bought waaay before this still works perfectly fine. This CD player can barely read a disc anymore and once it starts playing, it just skips and gets stuck. I only occasionally use this so it's not like it's been used excessively and is worn out. I cautioned against buying earlier if you want to play CDs... now I can saw absolutely do not buy if you are expecting this thing to play CDs and last. CD player is complete garbage.
4293022
After a year star to no longer be able to play the CD and the auxiliary connection no longer work
4922914
Just got this as a X-mas gift for my wife and the CD player now can only play one song before it says there is no disk.  I am returning it for another brand.
1952861
plays my records well. I had forgotten how they had sounded since my old turntable was too slow anymore. Miss my surround sound speakers though.  The CD player sucks though.  Only plays some of my CDs and sometimes only part of them. If the CD player worked as well as it should have I would have given it 5 stars.
3646793
Do not buy this item unless you  plan to never touch it once you have started a CD. Not to change a selection!!  Not even to change the volume.  It skips with the LEAST LITTLE tap.  Go ahead and spend a few more bucks if you plan to be AT ALL active with your player -"active" means touching it!!
1255013
I needed a CD player so I could listen to books on CD's. I went to Wal-Mart and bought the most expensive one they had.($26). Sure enough is was garbage and is now in the garbage. I saw this one and read the reviews and thought, sounds perfect for what I need. I even felt that paying a bit more was a good sign that I was getting a good CD player. That might be true if I were buying a new one. Unfortunately there were only used ones and refurbished ones to chose from. I got the refurbished one. Looked great. Just like a new one. I put a CD in and that worked fine too. I was very happy with my perches. The next CD was a different story. All I would get was a flashing (disc) in the window. The thing would not work with any CD's. After trying a bunch of things to get it to work I found that if you hold it upside down, tap it on the back while spinning around in a clockwise direction it will start to work again. You might even get 10 minutes out of it before you have to do it again. Now I know why someone gave it back. I have the feeling that the person inspecting this one couldn't find anything wrong with it and just put it back in the box and now I'm stuck with it. I can't find the box it came it and it's just to much trouble to send it back. So this one will end up in the trash and lesson learned, again.
4480619
I have not bought this item yet but I am thinking about it but I noticed something oddly familiar about the 1 star reviews. Being that 1 stars are usually the first I go to since they had the short end of the stick on these products I noticed all 3 reviews were from another review of an Alpine CD/USB receiver I used to have that was a nice Cd player. Do not! and I mean do not! listen to the 1 stars they must just be spam trying to ruin good products names cause they have the same exact reviews on the Alpine Cd player to
2158280
My son got this CD player/radio for Christmas from his Grandmother. The CD player never worked. It's so frustrating, when you put the CD in it just gets stuck and if it moves at all you hear a click and a scrape which is the CD being scrached. UGH!!
PLEASE DO NOT WAST YOUR MONEY!
2238536
This Cd player is 110% (and that aint even possible) no good. I got mine from Rex last year. It never plays your mp3s the first time, It'll just keep reading or display an error message. After about 2 weeks it started smoking on me and I took it back on my 2 year warrenty. They gave me another one and  not even half a year later the same problems and now it won't even take my cds. It just keeps spitting them back out. Just plain and simply STAY AWAY!!
2380122
During start up it will make a weird sound from the CD player. The screen angle no longer changes either. But for the price it was a decent deal. Where is stereo I ever owned automatically changes the station by itself reprograms radio stations by itself volume turned up and down by itself honestly a crappy stereo I wouldn't waste of money I would spend a little bit more and get something better. Do not buy the stereo
798964
This dualdisc cd does not work in normal cd players! Neither the cd or the dvd side work! It even says on the back of the case that it might not work in some cd players! Why release something that cannot be listened to! What a joke!
4853686
Hello Kiddies. I've lived with this unit for a few months now and I thought I would put me two cents worth into the review section. The sound is on par with the best CD players I've heard-absolutely stellar. On the other hand it doesn't seem to have bested it's predecessor, the CD 6004. They both sound pretty much identical to these ears, which is nothing bad at all. Again, stellar sound presentation. But a couple of ergonomic changes have me going back to the 6004.
  The first of these is the remote, I don't need a remote that runs other equipment and  the cd player-too many buttons and the four arrow center 'jog' doesn't even control next/previous functions like it used to. Now I have to search close to the top of the remote to find those in order to change tracks, it also now un balances the remote in the hand. The second is the next/previous buttons on the player itself. The  6004 used to allow me to hit the 'previous' button after loading a cd, and it would go, for example, from track 1-backwards to track 24. On the new 6005, you can only increment UP, not backwards-it stops at 1 and you can go no further-very dumb change in ergonomics if you ask me, and you should Marantz, because I bought the dang thing!
  The third thing they changed, and again it might seem trivial to some, and it might be, but to people like me with partial ADD it means a lot, and that is the previous models had a real nifty feature: after you put in a disc and the player read the table of contents, you could hit the >> (next button) or << (Previous button) and after you hit the track you wanted, you just let the button go and the player would go to that track and start playing it! You didn't have to hit the 'Play' button to start playing at the track you picked. Very useful feature that is NOT on the 6005. Again, stupid having that feature on the previous 3 models and then taking it away for no good reason.
  But, those quibbles aside, the player does a superb job at playing CD's. No harshness on the top end, just a very Analogue sounding machine that I believe is faithful to the recording on the disc. If it's a marginal sounding disc to begin with, the CD6005 will pull as much life out of it as it can and let it sound as good as it can. But you put in a well recorded and mastered CD like Dave Brubecks 'Take Five' and you'll be astonished at how damn good this thing sounds. I would not expect to hear a better sounding CD player for anything less than $2500. The last 5 years have seen CD players sounding so much better than older decks, and all this while the CD format is dying a slow death. But not with me. They keep blowing out cd box sets like the 16 disc Theloneous Monk's Riverside albums for $52 (!) and I'll keep a buying them. Bring it on. I still get a kick out of physical media.
  So ergonomics aside, a fine player from Marantz. I'll go back to my 6004 for the nit picking reasons I expounded on earlier-to me both players sound pretty much identical-but you really cant go wrong under $500 with the CD6005.

Happy Listening!
Gerard Masters
2951830
This CD sounds horrible.  The sound is muddy and there is no dynamic range.  This is the worst sounding Pearl Jam CD.

For Pearl Jam's earlier CDs, you could blame poor sound quality on the state of the technology and you can hear why many artists prefer LPs over CDs.

But, this one is Pearl Jam's fault.  By 2000, when this came out, the processing of music onto CD had greatly improved and CDs began sounding much closer to other sources.  In 2000, Pearl Jam certainly had enough clout to demand good sounding CDs.

I certainly don't think the power of the music comes through on this CD.

The other thing I that I never liked was the "hidden track" or "Easter Egg" where the last track on the CD continued in silence for several minutes after the last song ended and then there is some music or just annoying sounds.  This was the rage in the late 1990s with many artist doing.  It is just stupid.
486578
The CD player stopped working within 45 days of puchase
2602033
This needs to have 2.5 stars, not 3.  The CD player/speakers sound quite good, but the cassette player sounded warbly from the first tape I played.  If the CD player didn't sound so good, I would return the item.  Other reviews indicated it didn't hold up to use - we'll see.  Not worthy of the name Jensen.
3338574
Hey people,  I got this CD and it was boring! I can't stand to listen to even one whole song without pushing the stop button. I would get rid of the CD, but it was a gift from a really nice person. Anyway, the music stinks.  I wouldn't waste my money on it if I were you. I'm only giving it one star  because I have to rate it.
1034036
bought this Portable MP3/CD boombox last year, to date I have only been able to use the CD player once, since then CD just stop working, I have done everything to see if the CD will work.  Nothing.  I guess it is just mine, i have not seen any complaint like that before, everyone had good things to say about this product that why i bought it.  Will throw it in the garbage soon.