Price Paid:  $50.00 from staples

Summary:
cant figure out how to keep the light illuminated in standby mode so that i can actually see the clock in the middle of the night

Strengths:
slim and sleak

Weaknesses:
poor sound quality

Similar Products Used:
nope

Price Paid:  $0.00 from american express

Summary:
WAS I NUTS. 60,000 American Express Points for this piece of sheer crap. I have owned many Fisher products and have a wonderful component system with CD player that is a Fisher and expected the same quality. Was I wrong. Confussing set-up. Tiny sound and where is the base? There isn't any. Ironic that it has a subwoofer attachment (that the booklet says is not included but guess what...Fisher doesn't make one for this unit...Gee China...I wonder why). Avery Fisher must be spinning fast enough in his grave to generate enough electricity to power Avery Fisher Hall with his name attached to this poor excuse for a CD/Stereo system.

Strengths:
Well...it looks nice

Weaknesses:
Way Way Way too many to list

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
My wife won this through a promotion. Sound quality is so bad I brought it to work and bought a new sytem for my home. This "piece of junk" drives comments from visitors to my office on how great it looks and how bad it sounds. Oh by the way, forget the cd player, it overheats after 10 minutues.

Strengths:
Looks reasonably cool

Weaknesses:
Everything else

Similar Products Used:
Other stereos

Price Paid:  $0.00 from ?

Summary:
my sister just got this as a Christmas gift. Unfortunately my uncle got it for free as a promotion for his work, so I doubt there's any way to return it. I was excited for her when I first saw it, since it's a nice-looking system, but now obviously I'm disappointed. The CD player stopped working within an hour of plugging in the system. It'll play a CD for a minute or so, then freeze up and say "no disc". At one point it won't even acknowledge that there's a disc in the system. I think it might have something to do with heat buildup in the system, as it seems to work fine for a while after you let it cool off, but then as it warms up (I can feel the heat from outside the cabinet) it starts getting worse. Since we probably can't return it, I will look into possibly modifying it with a PC case fan to see if that helps.

Strengths:
looks cool; has RCA input/output and RCA subwoofer output; not bad sound for a mini-system

Weaknesses:
CD player failure; generally shoddy construction; you have to snap the CD onto a spindle (like a portable CD player), unlike most similar-looking products (i.e. those that hold the CD vertically behind a clear door) - this is really kind of a pain, and if the CD player worked it would probably keep me from mounting it on the wall.

Similar Products Used:
none

Price Paid:  $100.00 from BJ's Wholesale Club

Summary:
We purchased it on 4/27/02 and the disc player stopped working on 5/25/02. It was playing a disc and it suddenly skipped, put in another disc and it said no disc and won't play any disc at all. I am not happy with this at all. What a waste of money and time. I have owned Fisher products in the past and this is a cheap product for the name.

Strengths:
The alarm worked on it.

Weaknesses:
The sound quality was pretty cheap and the fact that the disc player dies in a few weeks.

Similar Products Used:
None