IT'S GREAT PORTABLE SONY BOOMBOX!
It's a GREAT PRODUCT and I Recommended to anyone, it is very reliable and you can take it anywhere and the sound is GREAT! Keep Up the Good Work Sony and Amazon for the Good Services! I am very Happy with it! and the Price was very Good!
Sincerely,
C.A. From: St.Louis,Mo
poor quality
Like another reviewer, the CD player grew steadily less reliable shortly after the warranty period. I'd put in a CD and it would have trouble starting up, spinning and spinning until the CD started. Over time, this grew worse until finally it has become completely unreliable. Stay away from this one.
Excellent compact CD/cassette system!!
I purchased this system at Wal-Mart in December, 2004. It is very convenient and fits perfectly on top of a folding table that I have in my room. It is perfectly portable, and it's not like other systems that are best suited for a bookshelf or cannot be carried around very much. CD sound quality is excllent as well. You can play commercially issued CDs and CDs that were recorded from stand-alone recording decks or burners on your PC. Whenever I don't use it, I keep it in its original cardboard box. The nice features this system has are: 10 button direct access for radio or CD and a small remote control that you can use for CDs or radio. I don't listen to tapes on this system very often, but it does work quite well. I even tried recording on to tape from CD several times. The playback quality on a recorded tape (that was recorded on this system) is decent; you can hear the music, but there is a SLIGHT degree of sound distortion when playing back music that you had just recorded on to tape. But, that does not mean that this system is total junk. It is still quite nice. With the remote, you can control the CD player or radio, without having to touch the buttons on the system. You can jump right to a CD track (or radio station) with the touch of one of the numbered buttons. This system also has wide-directional convex speakers, which project sound to a wider area, they are not like most other speakers that only project the sound to a limited area. My system still works quite nice, so I'm not complaining.
buy another unit!
Okay.....
I've had my Sony unit for a year and I purchased the unit because it was a "Sony."
Plus...a DVD, tape player and radio unit, how could I go wrong?
Plenty.
The DVD player broke pretty quick. I did not want to hassle shipping the unit iff.
Who does anyway?
But that's okay, I played tapes. No auto reverse.
This means, yep, ya gotta hit stop-eject-flip the cassette and hit play.
What a drag.
I use my Sony at a jobsite and this thing is WAY too delicate for anything but a bookshelf. No rough and tumble usage.
So...I'm down to the radio because the tape feature is such a hassle.
Get this: if you lose power, you lose your radio setting!
Complete dark ages. I was stunned at Sony's boneheadedness.
This is a MAJOR glitch you do not think of until it is way too late.
Not only that, but the radio-set buttons do not work. So, everytime there's a power interruption---frequent on a jobsite---someone has to spend 2 minutes resetting and kicking the unit to get to a mariachi station.
More frustration.
My advice?
Skip this unit and buy a $20 Radio Shack radio.
JDawg
Santa Fe, New Mexico
failed device
The CD player failed just after the warranty expired. Radio reception is poor. This one's going to the Salvation Army.