Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
My younger brother has one of these and here are my thoughts. I have tested it thoroughly.

As most mini systems it puts out way too much mid-bass It bass a huge hump around 200-300 hz's.
It can't do real bass at all. When you try to have it play low stuff it just doesn't play it or distorts

Overall i think it's a waste of money The midbass is way too loud and it distorts a lot. The midbass also sounds very fake and over EQed. It can't produce bass and it the highs are anything, but crystal clear.
I put in many of my favorite cd's and it butchered them. One of my favorite songs has a very clear high soprano voice and this system added a midbass white noise to the voice which sounded awful. Number one you want something that is Eqed flat and that can hit bass notes.

You would be better of buying a pair of active studio monitors. For $40 dollars more you could buy the wharfdale active diamond 8.1's which does sound worlds better, because it doesn't have that loud annoying mid bass.

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
MAazing Sound System. Never had a better stereo! Sounds Great and Look cool too

Stengths: Amazing Sound and Volume with the MAX button, aux input, 3-cd player

Weaknesses: NONE!

Price Paid:  $190.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
I am amazed at the power I receive from this unit. The clarity is excellent. It caused one of my friends, who is a musician, to run out and buy one himself.

Strengths:
Sound, power.

Weaknesses:
The cd player, out of no where, just stopped reading and playing cd's. I received the message, "Disc not finalized," however, I was playing brand new music cd's from the store. I was not playing home-made cd's. Therefore, I am not able to use the cd player right now.

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Price Paid:  $210.00 from Wal-Mart

Summary:
I've had the Phillips for about 2 years, it has one problem with the speaker,there is a whole in it someone stabbed it. Even with the whole, it still pounds like the day I bought it. It's a great stereo! I've always been a Phillips fan....but now I really am!

Strengths:
good, tight, loud bass, awesome highs, supreme clarity...low maintainence

Strong remote, I've beat the hell out of it..it still works!

Weaknesses:
needs stronger plastic grills, I needed more than 1 RCA connection

Similar Products Used:
Sony...has nothing on tha Phillips

Price Paid:  $200.00 from best buy

Summary:
Way to go Philips! About time someone got it right. I've been meaning to write a review on this system for a couple years now, but even after 2 years of extreme abuse when no one is in the house, this has held up great. The sound is the most accurate I have heard from anything short of a component system. Far superior to any other little Hi-Fi out there. The sound is crystal clear, but yet has enough bass to shake the walls of my house, and the power to back it up. Usually you will find a system that will put out lots of bump, but as soon as you turn it up, it's all over. The volume goes to 40 on it, and with full bass boost on and at 35, it will crank even techno without a hiccup. Oh yea, one of the nicest features of this you will use once is when you first plug it in, it will find all available radio stations automatically. Great if the power goes out, even though it has been out here for up to 8 hours, and all I have lost is the time. When I bought this I was all about Aiwa, but Philips showed me what's up. Philip's all the way! :)

Strengths:
Bass, power to back it up. High treble, lots of sound/equilizer settings. Dozens of settings. Quiet changer operation, still. Best deal out there, at least 2 years ago, when it first came out. Deserves 11 value stars

Weaknesses:
looks perhaps, but they grow on you

Similar Products Used:
Aiwa P.O.S.