I bought the plant 2 weeks, to replace my defective expensive micro system from Philips. The power of 2 x 5 Watt (not PMPO) are not meant to sound for a party, but quite sufficient if you want to hear now and then music. JVC system provides a CD player, the swallows also MP3 CDs at once and a tape deck. The radio has RDS and has room for 30 stations. Some getting used to is the display which is a bit too flashy but still ok. The sound is, as long as you do not switch on bass boost and the plant on flat leaves (pop, rock, classical music are the others), clean. Doing so could result in low volume a little "noise". To me, the music then before a bit restless. Overall, the beautiful wooden silver system provides good performance at this price.