Home > Consumer Reviews > RCA RS2663 5-Disk CD Changer Bookshelf Audio System
RCA RS2663 5-Disk CD Changer Bookshelf Audio System
See it at Amazon.com for $86.93Average Customer Rating
(2.5 out of 5)
Amazon Customer Reviews
Most Helpful First | Newest First | + Share17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
Must be "reset" and won't play unattended for an extended time.
(3 out of 5) by Grace L. Zerbe on Oct 8, 2007Product has good sound quality and all features perform as expected. However, we needed it to play softly through the night on the "repeat all disks" setting, in a sickroom. This it won't do. The CD player "hangs up" after few hours and stops. If we unplug it, then re-plug it in, it will work again. Since this unit replaced a similar earlier model that had begun having this problem, we were disappointed.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Pretty Good...
(4 out of 5) by TailSpin on Apr 10, 2008 (Kennewick, Washington USA)I bought for my parents and myself so we could listen to music and also listen to audio from the T.V. Unfortunatly I never got around to buying audio cables to hook up the stereo to the tv.
The stereo does a good job of playing CDs; produces high quality stereo sound, though the CD scaner is very sensative in that scratches on a CD will upset the sound quality with anoying static pulses.
The radio is the real disappointment with this product. If radio reception isn't great, the unit will often get confused and keep automatically switching between Stereo and mono sound playback. When reception is good enough for stereo, loud bass in music will upset the sound quality (only in radio mode).
Over all, The Stereo system can be better, but it serves my purposes well enough.
The stereo does a good job of playing CDs; produces high quality stereo sound, though the CD scaner is very sensative in that scratches on a CD will upset the sound quality with anoying static pulses.
The radio is the real disappointment with this product. If radio reception isn't great, the unit will often get confused and keep automatically switching between Stereo and mono sound playback. When reception is good enough for stereo, loud bass in music will upset the sound quality (only in radio mode).
Over all, The Stereo system can be better, but it serves my purposes well enough.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Total piece of crap!
(1 out of 5) by Marie L on Nov 26, 2008 (Minnesota)I think the title says it all. So many problems from day one -- I have stood in front of this thing for 10 minutes trying to get it to read and play one freaking CD! Displays "reading" forever, then just stops, or doesn't read at all and doesn't play...invest in another $[...] and get yourself something decent. I will NEVER buy RCA again!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
CD stuck inside, door won't open
(1 out of 5) by Ron on Sep 12, 2008The RCA RS2663 is nothing but trouble. It chews up tapes. Now the door won't open and 1 CD is inside. This happened before. I had to unplug and unscrew the panels, finally got the tray to slide out. I put it all back together again and it worked great for 1 day. The next day, the tray won't open again. I won't buy another RCA product again. Their engineering sucks. Also, the Bass Boost is too much but, without it, the sound is even worse.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
CD player stopped working after 10 months of use
(1 out of 5) by K. A. Rice on Aug 21, 2008 (Arcata, CA USA)The tape player doesn't record, so forget putting your cd's on tape. Worse than that, after 10 months of use the cd player stopped working altogether and refused to open with 5 of my most precious cd's locked inside. Finally after numerous efforts the carousel opened, yet it still fails to read and play any cd's.