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It has plenty of volume for an office product and holds the FM signal from my radio station much better than past radios I tried to use in the office.In addition, I'm happy to say the players plays all my homemade CDs even though the instructions specifically state that it will only play CDs that have the CD label impressed on them.All told, I report much happiness with my machine, at least in the first few weeks I've used it. 1 at work. The radio is terrific and the CD players works fine. I don't know what problems others are having with their radio-CD player but mine works great. I specifically asked for one of these at Christmas to use in the office, where I listen to classical music on streaming audio from my local NPR station.The radio sounds as good as the signal I got from streaming audio and the CD player worked fine this morning when I played a new version of Mahler's Symphony No.
By the way these things are thrown together, I sure many other units would have these same basic problems. The FM radio has a poor signal to noise ratio and sounds also sounds "thin" though the speakers. The unit came with a speaker buzz and a repetitive tick when playing CDs, mainly because of manfacturing and design shortcuts. After "repairing" then CDs sound fine through headphones. I only "repaired" my new unit only because my kids like the looks, other people would just ask for a refund. On opening the unit I found two unshielded flat ribbon cables folding and tucking these between the circuit boards fixed the buzz, adjusting the CD's sled trim pot fixed the CD player's (focus). tick.
I won't be making that mistake again. I guess that's what you get when you don't buy a big name brand. Oh, and it does take 6 C batteries instead of the power cord, but because of the way the cord has to plug in inside the battery compartment, you can't have batteries in it in case the power goes out.
The radio hardly receives anything, only about 3 FM stations come in. I never tried the CD player, so I can't say how that works. .but that's about it.
It didn't come with an instruction manual or anything at all in the box except for the radio itself - not that I needed a manual, it's a radio/CD player, it's not that hard to figure out, but it shows you the kind of quality product you're dealing with here. I am VERY unhappy with this radio. I know it's this radio that has the problem, since my coworkers can get stations I can't even find on this thing's dial.
Since I bought it so I could listen to the radio at work, I'm returning it.
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