Price Paid:  $0.00 from Cleaning an attic

Summary:
Awesome system. Treble is lacking but is suitable. CD player is very defective but with tinkering works.

Strengths:
Nice sound, heavy bass, cool lights.

Weaknesses:
Weak Treble, CD player.

The CD player was broken when I got this system but after about 40 minutes of tinkering with the potentionmeter it works fine now. I wish they made them a bit higher quality.

Price Paid:  $300.00

Summary:
Expensive CD player minimum requirement: PLAY A CD

After one year this unit does not conform to the aforementioned minimun requirement,

Hey, what do you want for $300.

Strengths:
CD Player made cool sounds when sledhammered.

Weaknesses:
Plastic went everywhere after sledhammering.

Similar Products Used:
Sony, Pioneer, Kenwood and other manufacturers that offer CD Players that actually Play CDs

Price Paid:  $25.00 from Private Sale

Summary:
The CD player was shot when I bought it... paid $140 to have it fixed. Works fine. The problem is the laser reader. It's worth fixing with a Sony part.

Strengths:
Cheap

Weaknesses:
None so far... but I expect that, after reading this forum, the CD may disintegrate in a couple of years.

Price Paid:  $350.00 from Sears

Summary:
I bought this system when it first came out as an upgrade from another AIWA product I had. Maybe I should have kept the first one. My CD player stopped working after a year. I jsut thought it was certain CD's but it turns out now that none work and it's been 6 years since. I thought it was just me but it sounds like everyone else has the same problem.

Strengths:
None

Weaknesses:
Well, a CD player is supposed to play CD's. This one doesn't. I've been jipped!

Price Paid:  $300.00 from bestbuy

Summary:
When i was about 10 i saved up enough money to buy what i thought was the greatest stereo ever. I still think it sounds great but it doesn't do much good without a cd player. As i've read, the cd player seems to be going out on them all. Mine quit after about a year. I thought i broke it so i never told my parents till, well-after the warrantry expired. At first it wouldn't play certain cds but as time went on it wouldn't work all together. Right now it wont even turn the disc on full spin! I feel disapointed and feel that a recall should have taken place. I do believe it is defective and i would never in my life buy another aiwa product again! Don't buy aiwa.

Strengths:
Great sound if you have a source to play it from

Weaknesses:
poor design and build quality