As said in the headline you would expect no high-end Hi-Fi device here. The sound is okay, the equipment also - as measured by the price !!! For children (where he is employed with us, so that the old radio play cassettes can still be played), well suited for the kitchen etc. However, if you want sophisticated listening now, emphasis on tens tone controls and even so want to hear every detail of the recording - which is wrong here. There are better devices that halt but will cost a lot more money also. Although the greed-is-Geil-generation does not want to see ... I can not say much about the robustness because the device less than a month in operation yes (but every day).