Home > Consumer Reviews > Sony ICF-CD73V Shower CD Player/Clock Radio (White)

Pros: Reception, Features, all digital, looks, build like a tank.
Cons: Price.

I picked this up to replace a piece of junk Curtis shower radio I bought my wife from Best Buy. She was so dissapointed in the Curtis because no stations would come in on its analog tuner.
The Sony was everything the cheaper Curtis wasn't. It is fully digital including the tuner. It has an external antenna and the reception is great. It sounds great for a littler radio with a even a bit of bass. The auto off feature will let you turn this thing on first thing in the morning and not worry about draining the batteries by leaving it on all day. Aditionally, it comes with a rope strap that will let you hang it from about anything. It is a bit on the heavy side because it is built solid as a rock.
The final word is I am super pleased with this little radio. My only gripe is the price: ... ouch. But if you believe that you get what you pay for...

After researching, looking at, and buying (then returning) several compact CD/Radio combos (I wanted it to go from kitchen to bathroom, but didn't have room for a boombox) I can finally rest. The Sony Liv Shower Radio is small, easily carried around with its attached handle, and has great sound--no distortion as volume is increased, and no background fuzziness. The one quibble, which I only noticed in the store as I compared it to the matching new Sony Dream Machine CD player, is that the Dream Machine gets much louder and still maintains the integrity of sound--but you have to plug it in, so you aren't going to be carrying it anywhere. That being said, mine is in the kitchen right now on a low-to-middle volume setting, and I can hear it out here in the living room--so it's loud enough, for sure. Love it!

I loved this shower CD player/clock radio. It worked perfectly for the first 4 months I had it. It even got good radio reception in my shower and had highly respectable sound quality for a shower CD player/clock radio.

And then --> now, if the top of it gets a little wet (as it usually does, being in a shower), it won't turn off. So, I just turn down the volume and it turns off by itself in 30 minutes or more. Unfortunately, this "quirk" runs down the batteries pretty quickly.

I am not sure if this quirk has happened to other people, but it certainly has happened to me.

I bought this a year ago and use it every day. It's been dropped numerous times (we use a strong suction cup hook instead of hanging it over the shower head-if you do this, restick the suction cup every few weeks) and it hasn't broken at all and it sounds just like new. The sound is great-loud, you can listen to CDs, radio (great reception) and TV, and program your stations for both TV and radio. Regular batteries last a long time-at least 4 months. I definitely recommend this one over a cheaper one we bought where the CD player worked maybe a week and the radio reception and control and volume/clarity were poor.

Like somebody else said, this was the only shower radio with good reviews. The sound is great, better than I expected it to be. I also like it because you can carry it around from room to room. I'm glad I decided to buy it.