Ideal for hearing impaired geeks

Pros: Fair price (95), good radio reception, very good and powerful sound, attractive design (if you stand on plastic in piano lacquer finish and the inevitable fingerprints).

Negatives: The buzzing CD player and ticks that loud that you can hear even in five meters distance him. Fast forward, there is only twice the normal speed, so it takes sixty seconds in order to play until the third minute of play.

The remote control is confusing and poorly formed. Some features are not explained in the manual. Ever you realize only after unpacking that this plant is scheduled obviously especially for use on a TV for playing DVDs. For the setup you should connect the system to the TV.

The USB Resume (one of the reasons why I decided for this device) does not work or only partially. So you have to remember or write down which piece was last played, when you want to listen to MP3s from a USB stick. Often the device starts after switching off namely again at Track 1 at (very annoying when one has some 100 songs on the stick).

It takes a full eight seconds to open the drawer for CDs. At the same time, the playback of the selected Qelle (Radio, USB stick) is interrupted, so you hear nothing. Similarly, the time it takes until a preset radio station is heard.

Often it is necessary to press twice the Stop button to pause the CD playback. If you press while a song paused, playback is automatically stopped after five minutes (very annoying, if one z. B. during a brief telephone conversation just wanted to continue only the music).

For the various sources can be found on the remote control only a single button (function), so you have to scroll up and down to get from the radio to the USB stick. That's pretty annoying if you like me sitting with her back to the plant, as well as the screen is relatively small.

There would be a number of things to criticize, but that's a waste of time. Overall, the menu guidance makes a completely half-baked idea, as programmed by a novice. The CD player is running the way to the end of the last piece quite a few minutes at idle before it shuts down at some point.

I've actually even bought a second plant of the same type, to make sure that I did not get a defective device. Unfortunately, the second system had the exact same flaws that I have described here. She went back, the first I kept grinding his teeth.

Conclusion: really good sound with powerful bass for relatively little money. But the ease of use is under all. And that it should not be possible in 2014, a low CD drive in to build such a plant is totally unbelievable.