ION Air Slimline Portable CD Player with Bluetooth Streaming, Headphone Output and Optional Battery Operation

A bit of background. My 12 year old car has a Radio/CD/MP3 player. It won't work. I have a bluetooth speaker in my car instead and stream from my phone. I have thousands of CDs but can't play them - I play vinyl at home not CD. I looked around at portable CD players as I intended to hard wire a CD player to the AUX socket of the bluetooth speaker. However, looking at the options out there, most of the portable CD players needed AA batteries and I really didn't fancy replacing those every five minutes. Whilst I was searching on Amazon I came across this, the ION Air CD player. In the distant past I had an ION turntable which lasted years, so I was aware of their products. The added advantage of the Air was the inclusion of Bluetooth and the fact it could be run from a powered source, not just batteries. It was £20 more than most of the other options, but despite of this - and the plethora of bad reviews - I decided to give it a go. After all, with Amazon I could simply return it if it didn't do what I wanted it to. Well, I have to say I think this is a brilliant little thing. I simply used the supplied (very short!) barrel cable to an adapter running from my cigarette lighter thing, read the instructions and connected to my bluetooth speaker without any issues. Within a couple of minutes I was streaming the CD to the speaker. I also tried to connect to my wireless Sony MDR headphones and again, worked first time. Also connected easily to another speaker I have. I've used this now for the last week without any issues at all. The Air connects to my speakers first time, every time and thanks to the built in 60 second anti-shock system I've not had one skip from any of the CDs I've played in the car. Perfect. Very pleased.

Basic quality player, but bought it for the Bluetooth as couldn't see any others out there and have old CDs I wanted to play in the house. Knew it was a long shot based on other reviews, and as I feared, it won't connect to my new UE Boom 2 speakers. It tries, but drops out as soon as a connection is made. A real shame as quite a niche product that could have been great. I'll be returning and paying half the price for a non-bluetooth version I can plug into my speaker...sacrificing the portability in the house.

Bought this for my wife for Christmas as she wanted "less clutter on the kitchen worktop". The neat little player arrived very quickly, and then got stored away for Christmas. Today I have set it up for her, using the USB lead (provided) into a wall socket with USB port. It took me a bit of time to realize that the player would not pair with the speaker until I put a CD into the machine (otherwise I just got the message NoDisc). It is also a bit disappointing that the pairing is "lost" every time you turn the speaker off. This fact may infuriate the missus! Bluetooth range seems OK - will work with the speaker upstairs, but the signal doesn't like passing through solid walls. So far - I reckon this is a good product.

I was disappointed that I could not 'pair' this item with either of the two cars in the family, which was my primary reason for buying the machine. Once I purchased a 3.5mm Jack To Jack AUX connecting cable I achieved what I wanted to do. The sound reproduction is great and, apart from the Bluetooth element, it does everything it says on the packet.

Works well, good price, connection to BT speakers was very easy. Just remember to have a CD in the machine (not playing) when you press the button for Bluetooth, otherwise it does not work (and the manual doesn't tell you this!). Once you have the CS the connection happens in a few seconds and seems solid after that. One negative point (apart from the lack of information about the above in the manual): the cord provided is extremely short (about 40-50cm), so unless you have a USB female to male extension lead or the CD is close to your computer so that you can plug it is, you could get into trouble. You can't use a standard USB cord because on the side of the CD player it is a 4.5V roung plug. hope this helps!

I purchased this for my daughter as she wanted to be able to stream directly to her speakers and headphones. I tried to get it to connect to both without success, and eventually only managed to get the Bluetooth to work with my soundbar. I called Ion Audio (who were totally clueless), and was told that the equipment might use a "different sort" of Bluetooth. First I've heard about there being different types of Bluetooth, and I feel I was fobbed off with a pathetic excuse. I notice I'm not the only one having these connection issues, so can only assume the Bluetooth capability of this CD player leaves a lot to be desired. Sound quality is good though, but the dispay is small, hard to read, and next to useless. Unfortunately this seems to be the only personal CD player being sold as having Bluetooth, but if you are buying it for that reason, I would steer well clear.

I bought this as a Christmas gift, so I tested it prior to the big day. It connected as it should and sounded good. My husband used it on Christmas Day and it worked fine. However, he tried to use it again on New Years' Day and it wouldn't connect to the headphones. I tried to re-pair it but the bluetooth button switched the device off instead of putting it in pairing mode. Have tried to reset the device, but it has had no effect. I've arranged a refund with Amazon and will look for another bluetooth CD player.

After reading the reviews, some of them incredibly critical, I agree with those who were pleased. Took me a little bit of time to sort the pairing out, 15minutes, but did exactly what it said it would in the blurb. Sounds amazing on my wonderboom blu tooth speaker. Compact, practical and value for money. Cheers ION, as good a product as the block rocker, which I have had for 8 years and still going strong.

Reçu rapidement, je l'avais acheté pour servir de lecteur CD dans ma nouvelle Dacia Sandero qui ne dispose que d'un lecteur Bluetooth avec entrée auxiliaire. La connexion Bluetooth n'a pas pu s'établir, mais avec une prise jack dans l'entrée auxiliaire, le lecteur fonctionne parfaitement !

Tolles Teil

Ottimo. Funziona bene. Come me lo aspettavo. Sto ancora sperimentando le possibilità di utilizzo con o senza batterie, ma sono soddisfatto.

Hice la devolución a los 10 minutos de probarlo. El aspecto y la entrega excelente por parte de Amazon, pero el sonido dejaba mucho que desear. Por cable el sonido no era muy malo pero por bluetooth era pésimo. Lo probé con varios dispositivos y en todos metía el ruido del giro del CD por bluetooth. Así que no lo recomiendo.

Simple d'utilisation,qualité acoustique correct.