Price Paid:  $420.00 from Sears

Summary:
This system has an excellent sound, and it has amazing bass. The system has taken a beating for many years, I have turned the volume up to 25 countless amounts of time, and the sound is still good. The only problem i've had with it is I went overboard and blew a subwoofer. Cost me $80 to replace the whole left speaker box.

Strengths:
Amazing, great sounding bass, ready and able to play and bass I may throw at it.

Weaknesses:
Funky smell comes from the ports when I play some times, and the amp seems to be pretty loud.

Similar Products Used:
Not a one, this is a one of a kind system, I'd perfer this over all systems in it's price range.

Price Paid:  $100.00 from ebay

Summary:
awesome stereo!!!!! BASS lots of it OMG, this is like the cars you see on the street with those big systems, thats how you will feel in your room!!!!!! Awesome bass

Strengths:
Bass

Weaknesses:
kind of weird built........

Similar Products Used:
none......there is nothin like it !

Price Paid:  $350.00 from Sears

Summary:
I was blown away. I heard this at the normal settngs at Sears and got it as a stereo for my bedroom. I thought it was amazing then. Then I go and hook it all up, and hook the AUX-In in to my computer along with my computer speakers (Altec Lansing ADA855's). It was amazing. The bass is SO clear, it really adds great bass to music, even music that normally doesn't sound like there's any bass in it. A great buy, very happy with it.

Strengths:
Good sound Awesome bass Easy to set up LOUD!!!

Weaknesses:
FM Antenna keeps falling out. It looks a little weird. Pretty heavy.

Price Paid:  $400.00 from Circuit City

Summary:
I purchased this system as a mini for use in my computer room. I have listened to many systems and my brother and cousin love getting together to explore the sound charactoristics of a speaker, amp, room, system, etc. I have many years of comparing every system piece or whole.

Strengths:
Good bass and power to spare with all but the most demanding bass.

Weaknesses:
Lack of adjustablity of music output. I want to be able to adjust the sound curve to make up for problems with the area being used as the sound stage.

Similar Products Used:
none. the systems used as reference include Paradgim, Yamaha, and Soundworks speakers.

Price Paid:  $400.00 from sears

Summary:
when i bought my jvc i thought it was great better then all my friends systems by far. after about 9 months my subs blew out and ripped apart(lol) so i recently sent them back but the losers said they never recieved my package.. so i customized my system which ended up pumping i would say 3-4x more bass then the 2 stock 8s, i added more money and bought two audiobahn 10 car subs in a box and replaced the 8s with some cheap thumps from ebay(which alone are better then the stock ones). im running all 4 subs now and wow this thing is has soo much bass.. i got the biggest mini system in my school and proud of it!!im pushing total of 720 plus watts out of it easy. this thing is great now and i hope the company doesnt ever recieve my package back either running all this bass at times i cant even hear the words of the music on vol 23-25.

Strengths:
run this on the floor for more bass. tons of power!!!!!!!!

Weaknesses:
the subs