Customer Ratings & Reviews

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).