Price Paid:  $500.00 from www.damark.com

Summary:
GOOD FEATURES - GREAT SOUND(WHEN WORKING) / POOR EXECUTION - POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE. BY THE WAY, I DID'NT MENTION THE LOCAL REPAIR COMPANY'S NAME OUT OF RESPECT - THEY WERE NICE, VERY CORDIAL JUST NOT VERY EFFECTIVE.

Strengths:
MIDI INPUT-BBE FREQUENCY ENHANCEMENT-POWERFULL T-BASS
DOLBY SURROUND SOUND.

Weaknesses:
TOMMY OF NJ RIGHT ON TARGET, I HAD PROBLEMS WITH THE
RIGHT SPEAKER SOUND DROPPING OUT. THIS OCCURED WHEN I CONNECTED RCA SOURCE PLUGS TO THE AUX/VIDEO INPUTS.
THE REPAIR SERVICE WAS TERRIBLE LOCAL AUTHORIZED REPAIR DID NOT FIX PROBLEM - THEY EVENTUALLY SENT IT DIRECT TO AIWA FOR
REPAIRS, THIS TOOK 4 MONTHS IN TOTAL. WHEN I DID GET THE SYSTEM BACK THE PLASTIC DIGITAL DISPLAY WAS SCRATCHED UP - BUT AT LEAST THE RIGHT AUDIO CHANNEL WAS REPAIRED.
ONE LAST THING RECORDING LEVEL(TAPE DUBBING) IS'NT AS GOOD AS A PANASONIC DUAL BOOM BOX I OWNED

Summary:
It looks great. Especially, I like the display screen - it's flashy and all just like other mini stereo system. The system has a lot of worthwhile & worthless functionalities. T-Bass, BBE, Dolby, etc are pretty worthwhile.

I bought the system for $420 with 10% off coupon. I didn't really care about the cost because I wanted to get a real good and powerful system. The system was intended to be used for home-theatre(surround-effect) and regular cd music listening.

Here comes the not-too-good part of this system. While I listened to one of my CDs for the first time, I immediately noticed that right speaker was making very weak but annoying distortion noise. I switched left speaker with right one. Now left one was making that same noise. Which means the amp/rece part of the system's right speaker output is diffective. How disappointing for the system I just paid for over $400.00! It is Made in China so I could see why the quality of the product could be bad.

Anyway, I am changing the amp/rece part this weekend and will check again for the distortion sound.

I hope this is not a common problem for all NSX-MTD9. Assuming that it is not, I am giving this system 4 for value and 3 for overall.

Strengths:
Looks & Power (400+ watts)

Weaknesses:
Noise Distortion

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