great sound

Terrible CD quality. It broke right off the bat. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of buying another Aiwa. It broke down as well. After reading everyone else's problems with the Aiwa's CDs, I feel like turning them in to some federal agency.

Don't ever buy an Aiwa product.

CD player

I feel fortunate that mine worked as long as it did after reading the other reviews. I will try to repair as Robert has suggested! Looks like it is time to replace this unit!

Awesome sound

Cd-player Sucks!!!

What can i say...the cd player in it compleatly blows Robert i tryed cleaning it i think its beyond repair now. sure the cleaning helped but only for a little bit. i did not personally own the system until a day or 2 ago when stupid me traded my mom the Aiwa Nsx-v70 of my cheep RCA RS 1285, which has horrible sound (Don not buy, Ever!). I did manage to get it to read cd's but it takes for ever to find the tracks and some times it wont find them at all. i dont know what to do i think im gona end up giving up on it...anyone wana buy a used mini system?

Similar Products Used:

RCA rs 1285

Its an AIWA

Its an AIWA

Same problems as everyone else with the CD player. In addition, also ended up soldering in a replacement ribbon cable since the cd tray would spin around 4 or 5 times (and then spinning in reverse once) every time the changer was opened or closed... frequently positioning the changer IN BETWEEN CDs and then raising the laser head and thereby jamming the changer closed. Replacing the ribbon cable (using a modified ribbon cable taken from a PC serial port, some solder, candle wax, and a wire-tie) fixed the changer problems. Getting the CD player to consistantly read CDs remains a huge problem. About 33% of the time it decides it cant recognize a CD (frequently just spins the cd, then rotates to the next one). Following the lens-cleaning suggestions did not help much in this case, but was worth a try. Otherwise, would be completely satisfied with this system.

Overall Sound

CD Player

As with many of the other comments , when the system works its great. Hoever the CD player has a number of design faults.

The first as mentioned elsewhere is that if any dust gets onto the laser unit , then the system will not read CDs any more, generally the system just spinns the CD round and round, simply taking off the back of the unit and cleaning the laser normally fixes the problem.

The second problem is that the 5 way ribbon cable that connects the CD tray to the main unit can break or develop cracks in it , bacause it bends everytime the cd tray is opened and closed. This results in either the CD tray not working at all , or the tray constantly going round and round. In this case the ribbon cable needs to be replaced or fixed. IN my case a just directly soldered a replacement cable in uts place.

If it weren't because the CD-Player doesn't work, Iwould give this stereo five stars. Fortunately, I pay the extra for the Best Buy 4 years extended warranty and I am wating now for the second time for they
to reapair it. From what I've read in these reviews and what I've heard from several people who own
Aiwa, I'll probably will send it a third time for repair and it will probably still not work, and finally
I will be able to get rid of the musical Karma that this Aiwa brought to my life, that is, if Best Buy keeps
its promise of giving a new unit after the third attempt to repeair it. If you still decide to buy this
specific Aiwa, or any other, don't buy it without paying for an extended warranty. It is unfortunate that
such good quality stereos have such bad CD-players

Well, I'm on my third Aiwa system. Why, because the system refuses to play most of my CD's, which are all in good condition. It's a shame I spent so much money on this system, only to realize that it is a piece of junk. My next move is to pawn the piece of crap and get something worth paying for.

Do not buy this or any other Aiwa system!! I have atleast five other friends who all have similar systems and they all have had the same problems after just a short time. They sound excellent for a while but the cd changer gives up after a short while. I could understand if it were just one but everybody I know who owns one says it is now garbage.

I've owned the Aiwa NSX-V70 mini A/V system for about a year and half. It's rated at 100 watts per channel, from 20Hz to 20kHz, at, I believe, 8 Ohms. The only feature notable apart from its competitors is its use of three DSP soundfields with three matching equalization patterns that are not fixed to one another and may be mixed and matched by the user; Disco/Rock, Live/Pop, Hall/Classical. It lacks a dedicated center channel, leaving two main L/R three way speakers, two small surround speakers and a preamp output for a powered subwoofer. All other abilities or features are as is standard for its competitors.
I bought the NSX-V70 for $385.00US to replace a large Kenwood rack system which made moving difficult for my U. S. Air Force life style. Unfortunately, shortly after I purchased the NSX-V70 I accidentally dropped one of the surround speakers, pulling the speaker cable out of the sealed enclosure. I haven't replaced the surround speaker because their effect was minimal and the receiver's output for the surround is the RCA type, making a suitable replacement difficult to find. The lack of presence of the surround effects may be due to their not being used long enough to be broken in. Regardless, I plan to upgrade them with more efficient speakers as I did the main speakers.

The NSX-V70 sounds much, much better than the overpriced Kenwood rack system I bought at Circuit City. Although the bass isn't as loud or controlled. I was overwhelmed by the impressively clear treble of the original speakers. The treble was warm and transparent, and the overall impression was of an incredibly dynamic soundstage, especially for a budget mini A/V system. The only area lacking was bass output and control, though only at higher volumes. The problem became so bad that I went so far as to buy rubber cement glue to join some of the panels of the speakers in order to stop the horrible racket being produced in lieu of bass! To solve the problem I bought a pair of Infinity Studio Monitor SM-105, which lost much of the beautiful soundstage and imaging, but remained equally clear and finally provided real bass at all volumes. Though I feel the bass sounds a little "woofy"; the reason for buying the SM-105 was because when auditioned with a Technics receiver the bass was incredibly precise for the relatively small SM-105. It may be that the NSX-V70 may not actually be able to pump out a true 100 watts.

I have had one serious problem with the NSX-V70; the CD player refuses to read 99 % of my CDs. This is incredibly frustrating because the CDs are in great condition, they play on other CD players and the unit is relatively new! It may be that the unit is currently in quasi-storage in an environment heavy in cigarette smoke. A local reputable audio retailer charges $90 just to look at it. So we'll see. Regardless, the Aiwa has delivered more good sound than I expected - better than comparable Pioneer, Sony and Kenwood - and the break down may not be its fault, so it is deserving of at least a solid 4.

My system is over three years old and it works perfectly except for the CD Player. The player does not read 99% of my CD's, even some new ones. I have a friend with the same player and he experienced the same CD problems. He sent his system in to a authorized Aiwa service repair center and he said they replaced the CD's power cable with a more powerful one and that they lowered the 3 disc crousel a tiny bit. He had to pay for all of the work because it was out of warranty. So, I called a service repair center and they told me that these systems are known for having this CD issue. I have not deided if I want to spend the money to get this rerepair work done but I just wanted to warn everyone not to buy Aiwa products. The company obviously does not care about product quality anymore or about customer service.