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After agonizing for months over which shelf system to purchase, I am quite pleased with this. I wanted something that could play classical, jazz, reggae and Afro-Cuban. This provides good sound and rhythm across the board. It has an equalizer with a jazz setting that does nicely with classical as well.

There are specific reggae, salsa & samba settings. Ernesto Lecuono rhumbas sound fine on the latter.

The speakers are powerful enough to rock the casbah and maintain sound clarity at the higher volumes. I seldom push it past two thirds of its capability.

I'm not an audiophile, merely a music lover. Can't believe how satisfied I am at so low a price and I'm not easily pleased. I wrote this review to save others the months of indecision I experienced.

I have been eyeing this stero at Best Buy for a while now and Final was able to get it. This thing is a monster in size and power. My current stero was a JVC 500W, I had that for 2 years and it was a great system, But I wanted to get a new stereo with more power. I love strong bass and this stereo has plenty of it. It handles very very good, The sound does not get distored when On high volumes.

I like that it has a 5 cd try rather than the common 3 cd tray. Plays MP3 cds. U can connect a Microphone to it, I connected my pc to it so i can listen to my music and watch tv and movies with 560Ws of power!!

However I do wish the main unit was a bit smaller, Its gives the impression that it's a powerful system. I had to take it out of its Box and put it in my car lol.

Overall I love love this system!!!! Its well worth its price. + Sony is a great company and their products last a long time. My sister had a Sony stero for a good 6 or 7 years. BUY THIS STEREO


PS- To Eric Muss-Barnes , I LUV THE LIGHT SHOW lol Adds a nice touch to it. hmm Lights on the speakers would be kool......

Last night we put it to the test. My 9-year-old daughter had a 70's disco party at our home. This stereo rocked the house!!! And the volume wasn't anywhere near topped out. Sound still very clear, absolutely no distortion. One warning: measure your space before ordering. The speakers are 3 feet tall, and the "unit" is about 2-1/2 feet tall - ain't no shelf I've seen with shelves that wide. So, if you've got room, get this stereo!

I bought this item the day after I reveived my JVC HX-D77 540-Watt DVD Mini System. why? The JVC has a HUGE sound and is great, but a couple things rubbed me wrong. First, none of the good sound settings work with video input i.e. theater surround type settings. Second the "sound turbo" function is hardly noticable on the JVC! Third, the JVC was cosmetically cartoonish. Don't get me wrong...It's a killer system for my 17 year-old son! (that's where it ended up.) The SONY is a better all around system, sounds great at all volume levels, crystal clear highs and HUGE punching bass as well! Further, it looks like a stereo system as much as it functions like one. It has the old-school dual tape player/recorder, a much sturdier build than the JVC, especially the CD changer, and most importantly, an EQ that I can dial in to my own liking and create a preset sound for ME, as well as 10 preset EQ's. Again, this system lacks the settings I would like for movies,i.e. theater surrond, hall, live, etc. (the echo type sounds that I loved on my old Aiwa). There is a surround button that adds a little fullness to movies, but no adjusting it. At one point I had both the JVC and SONY in the same room and I go with the SONY! It's just better IMHO. (my son would argue that the JVC wins.)

The system is visibly pleasing but it is under the hood that's great! Sound quality is excellent. User friendly controls. Easy set-up. The FM antenna quality allowed us to receive the FM channels we like. Can record cd's to tape. I have old and new cassette tapes. They seem to play fine. If you can, have it delivered to the closest ingress area, unpack it and place items one at a time. The individual components are a bit heavy and tall. That said, I would buy it again in a heartbeat. Speaking of which, be careful where you purchase this. I had originally planned to buy this from Amazon, as usual. But I became adventurous and purchased it from SonyStyle.com (a subsidiary of Sony.com). The most generous evaluation I can give them is that they ship quickly but they would only get one star for that.