Customer Ratings & Reviews

I found the SC-PM700 to have very good sound and some good basic features in an easy to use sound system. Design The main unit has a display and a handful of buttons. There is a large, easy to see and use volume dial. There are also two smaller dials for bass and treble. There's a headphone jack in the front. The back doesn't have any extra inputs or outputs. The speaker wires are easy to connect. There's a CD tray that ejects from the front to insert or remove a disc. You can use buttons on the main unit to control it or the included remote (it takes one AA battery which is not included). Bluetooth The audio playback via Bluetooth works without issue. You can switch it between modes for quality or a more stable connection. It's set to the quality mode by default and that sounded great. You can use controls on the remote or the main unit to control the playback, as you would expect. CD Player I like the tray loading CD player. No snapping the disc onto something in the middle that holds it. The audio playback works great! The only thing I noticed is it does not pickup where it left off and there doesn't seem to be an option to enable that. It's not usually an issue for me but sometimes I use it to play audio dramas and for that it would be nice. USB audio playback I was glad to find that it reads a flash drive and can play MP3 files off it. The display shows enough characters to go through a list of folders and find what you're looking for. It actually works much better than some I've seen for finding folders. Even with many on the flash drive the load time wasn't long and I found going through the list to work very well for having a single line display. When you go into a folder it starts playing songs in that folder right away. It does resume from USB audio playback if you turn it off and back on. Radio It comes with an external antenna that plugs in the back so you can listen to FM stations. I tested this a bit and it works fine. It will search for the next strong station or you can go through one at a time, but you use a button. Sound quality was good. It doesn't seem to support HD Radio. Audio settings You can adjust bass and treble as well as turn a "Surround" mode on or set a general mode to settings like "Heavy" or "Voice". I like the Surround and have been using that. It definitely give a bit more of a room filling feel to the sound. You can also save audio settings either as 1, 2, or 3. Sound I'm very happy with the sound quality and volume. Not only does it sound great in general, but each speaker has a tube in the back for bass I think, and it shows. I think the low end is pretty strong for the size of the speakers. The volume dial works great and gives the granularity needed for a good volume range. It goes up to 50. I wasn't sure how 40 watts per speaker would sound...it does get very loud at least for in the room I have it in which is about 12 feet by 25 feet. Remote The remote is infrared so you need to point the remote towards the main unit but it works very well. Instead of just one button to change sources, there are three buttons, Bluetooth, USB/CD, and Radio. I like that much better than cycling through four options. The volume buttons are to the left and right of each other. I like when are above and below each other but it doesn't really matter. Updates The manual gives a website you can download updates from. I checked and, at least at that time, there were no updates for it available. I'd love to see an update that adds a resume feature for the CD playback. Summary This is a great audio playback device for a room where you don't need or want a TV but want some good options for good audio playback. I found it easy to use and didn't have any problem with the functionality or audio skipping during playback.

I got this system to use in my downstairs woodshop to give me something to listen to that was versatile e.g. has radio, bluetooth and cd playback. I must say I am very impressed by the sound quality from this small package. It came packaged very well and damage free. Very simple to assemble and hook up. Attach speaker wires that are approx. 4 feet long and FM antenna, plug in power cord and you are ready to go. Manual is well written and easy to follow if you need to. Note: does not come with a battery for the remote. 1 AA battery is needed. Bluetooth pairing is easy and straightforward, you can pair up to 8 devices to the unit. CD can be ejected from either the remote or with a button on the front of the receiver. There is also a USB input on the rear of the unit that you can plug a flash drive into. All files thru the USB must be MP3 files. On the FM side it can hold up to 30 presets for stations. It also has a clock and a timer to turn it on at a specified time or use it as a sleep timer. You can manually adjust the sound quality or use 1 of 5 preset eq settings. Bass and treble can be adjusted to positive or negative in 4 increments. It also has a setting for D Bass ( I find this most desirable) and also turn surround on and off, although I didn't really hear a lot of difference but I have the speakers quite close together. There is also an auto off feature and a bluetooth standby that turns the unit on when the paired device is connected. A headphone jack on the front of the unit is also included. As I said earlier the sound is outstanding for a unit of this size and it will easily fill a large area with sound. Everything can be controlled by the remote. At this price point I think you would be hard pressed to find something better, especially with the versatility of all the different sources. Very satisfied

I wouldn’t say that I’m necessarily an audiophile, but I do have a certain standard I hold any headphones and speakers I purchase to. I also have an extensive CD collection because I still like to own physical media in this day and age. So, I was very excited to see what this Panasonic 80w stereo had to offer. This unit, unfortunately, is lacking in a couple of regards. First off, the unit is a breeze to set up. It took all of 5 minutes to unbox the main receiver/amplifier and speakers, connect them up, and get the unit running. I first tuned it to a local radio station and the unit didn’t sound half bad at all. The voices talking on the local sports radio program sounded clear and crisp, with some low end to their voices as you’d expect. Next, I pulled out my old CD book and slid in one of my Kendrick Lamar discs. This is where things got a little messy. Without even adjusting any audio settings out of the box, these speakers sounded like they were blowing out over some simple 808’s and slightly heavy bass. So I went to another CD, one of Jack White’s solo albums Lazzaretto, hoping to get a better result. I did not get a better result. So, knowing it wasn’t an album specific problem I adjusted the two tone-knobs (bass and treble, there is no mid adjustment). I turned the bass and treble both down one notch each and had a slightly better sounding result, the bass wasn’t distorting at all. But the lack of mid adjustment just meant the mix kept sounding a bit muddy, with not much dynamic range from low to high end. Once I fixed the tone, I put in my Now: That’s What I Call Music Volume #1 and played some late 90’s nostalgia while toggling through the audio presets. I personally wouldn’t recommend using them, as they all sounded only marginally different between them, and going one notch down on the bass and treble knobs in my opinion sounds superior. I gave it a week of playing music in my office while working from home, but ultimately it just left me wanting a fuller sounding experience. I own another compact 5-CD changer stereo that Best Buy currently sells for the same price but sounds much fuller and more balanced. I had high hopes for this Panasonic CD player, being that CD players in general are a dying breed, but unfortunately, I was not overly impressed with what this unit had to offer.

I was very pleased with all aspects of the purchase (i.e., timing of the order, receipt of the order and the equipment itself).