Supersonic SC-703 Portable CD Player with Cassette Recorder & AM/FM Radio

• Top Loading Single CD Player/Single Cassette Tape Recorder
• Built-In AM/FM Radio
• Detachable High Performance Twin Stereo Surround Speakers
• Built-In Front Panel Microphone for One-Touch Recording Feature
• Full 90 Day Manufacturer's Warranty

Starting with the cons, why does any radio made today have analog tuning? Have these things been laying around in a basement for 20 years? May very well be since the manual includes schematics. When was the last time you saw schematics in an owner manual?

And as a quibble, why no equalizer? It has a bass boost, which works fine, but the Surround Sound feature eludes me. May be bad ears, but I don't hear a difference.

On the plus side it's compact and has the features I wanted: radio, CD, cassette player. The speakers come off and I keep them under the TV table. The sound quality is good enough, though not great (about that equalizer). Lastly, you can lock the speakers in place, throw in a few batteries and you're good to go.

Bottom line, it seems overpriced for what you get, but it's worth 3 stars.

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This product was advertised on Amazon as originally $200. It definitely seemed too good to be true that a $200 product was selling for $55 and it was. When I received the item, I found it to be lightweight which means portable however it also means that the speakers weren't the beefy, high-quality speakers I was hoping for in what was advertised as a 13lb machine. The sound was poor. On any song I played, I found the sound to be distinctly too heavy on the low range and lacking any good high range. I didn't test the 'bass boost' because it was completely pointless considering the preset EQ. There was no way to change the EQ either. The CD player would pause if the surface it was on was bumped to hard. The left speaker on my unit also only played at half-volume. This may have simply be a defect in my unit and for it I got a full refund. On the bright side, the unit was light and the detachable speakers were definitely a convenient feature. The interface seemed easy enough but I only tried out the basic play modes. I'm spending the extra $70 and buying a Sony Xplode, I suggest anyone interested in this machine do similar.