Customer Ratings & Reviews

I got this unit a little over a year ago from Best Buy on significant markdown. The bluetooth receiver works fine. I don't listen to the radio much anymore, but the radio receiver works fine too. The sound quality is pretty good given the size of the unit. The issue is that the CD player function, which is what I primarily bought it for, is very hit or miss. I'm a GenXer with a sizeable CD collection and some of my CDs are not available on music streaming platforms, so it's nice to have a CD player so I can listen to those. This is the second multi-disc player I've purchased in the past half decade and both turned out to have serious issues. The other was an Onkyo 6 disc CD carousel that worked fine for a year and a half or so but now every CD I put in it skips like crazy. I bought it to replace an old Yamaha multi disc carousel that lasted for 25-30 years. Anyway, this Sharp unit was marked down and seemed like a good deal so I bought it. CD playback was fine for a month or so. Then, it stopped playing certain CDs entirely. Others certain tracks would reliably skip. These are not CDs I ripped but CDs I purchased from stores. All of these CDs play flawlessly on an old 90s era under cabinet mount CD player clock radio that we have in our kitchen, so the CDs are in good enough shape to play on other devices. Honestly, none are significantly scratched or anything. So, I contacted Sharp about the issue and they said the unit doesn't support MP3 file formats and thought the issue was a file format incompatibility. Well, all of these CDS are purchased from stores and presumably NOT MP3 files, nor are they Apple music file formats. Besides which, after resetting the unit one of the CDs that refused to play before the reset played back flawlessly. But then within a few days it no longer played back at all, once again. That is not a file format issue - there's no way resetting the unit could have made it suddenly capable of reading file formats that aren't supported only to STOP reading those formats a few days later. The CD itself...the file format isn't changing. So, it's some other problem. Anyway, it does play most of my CDs flawlessly. Others there's some minor skipping on certain tracks, or it just won't play certain tracks. Others it will detect the CD well enough to count the tracks but can't play a single note of music. And then there are CDs I insert and it says "no disc" so it isn't reading those at all. I'd guesstimate that it fails in some way to acceptably play about a quarter to a third of the CDs I try to play. I've heard that CDs are starting to come back as a popular music format...well, based on my 0-2 experience with recently purchased players I have to say consumer electronics brands are going to have to improve their quality by leaps and bounds because a music format can't come back into vogue if the players they build to play that format won't. So, I give it 2 stars based on the sound quality and the fact that two of the three functions work fine, but really, it shouldn't be this hard to find a decent quality multi disc CD player in this day and age.

Bought for my wife & she LOVES IT ! Great sound & so far so good ! It can get LOUD !

I was glad to find a system that had all the features I need. Of course it won't be perfect as CD players are not a home sound system priority for electronics companies to make, but it does the job--CDs and Bluetooth and the very occasional radio reception--just fine. But I've had to unplug it because the display is non-stop even when the device is "off" It's like Times Square, don't have it in your bedroom at night if you like any level of dark. Houseguests sleeping in the living room can see the movement of the display bouncing off the walls of the adjacent room where it's located. A minor issue but if you like your music in the dark in your room it might cause a problem. Times Square I am not exaggerating (that much)!

This SHARP CD stereo player is awesome, and sounds GREAT. I wasted over $700 on a Bose sound wave and it can NOT do the SIMPLE task of playing a compact disc.

Great compact stereo system; sounds really good with the extra bass and when I turn it up, I can hear throughout the house, very happy with my purchase!

Nice compact, great sound, easy to use/understand.

Great size , excellent sound! I love that it holds 5 discs

The unit is the perfect compact size I was looking for and simple to use. Thank you

Love that it holds 5 CDs. It has a great sound. Loved playing my Xmas CDs.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS - CHEAPLY BUILT IN MALAYSIA BREAKS PERMANENTLY!! I purchased this unit on Oct 9, 2024 and it came with a year warranty plus another 3 months when registered. At the 14-month mark, the unit became very erratic and would only play the occasional disc from only two of the CD trays. I tried various fixes, but noticed when I tilted the unit, some plastic pieces fell out from the CD exchange unit. I finally contacted Sharp on 2/23/2026, but they refused to honor the warranty, saying I had contacted them too late, even though the problem had appeared within the warranty period. DO NOT BUY - It's always a bad sign when a company doesn't stand behind a product that breaks permanently after 14 months. My previous CD changers would literally last decades without any problems.

Great cd player with trays for five cd’s. Everything we were looking for!

The sound is excellent for its size and price. I ran one speaker on longer wires to the opposite side of the bookcase with great results. The CD player is finicky. Let it take its time to warm up and slowly read the disk, and then it works.

I was replacing another bookshelf system and Oh My Goodness this one is soooo much better. The sound quality outmatched my old one by far. I love the remote control and just the quality is well worth the small price

Great sound, it's nice having the ability of having 5 disc slots.

I found it Easy to set up and has great sound for being so small.

Excellent audio quality, easy to use with multiple CD options. Compact system.

I have only one complaint. There is a shuffle option on the 5 disc player. However it only shuffles within one disc instead of between all 5 discs. If I wanted to listen to one disc at a time, I don’t need to shuffle it. I wanted to listen to a different disc for every song. Shuffle option should be noted on description or packaging as per disc.

does what i want and does it well. easy to put together and get to play.

I wanted a small system with quality sound -- the Sharp 5-Disc Micro system gave me that and more! I have turned off my TV except for a few select programs and turned on my Sharp 5-Disc system. Nerves improving thanks to great sounds/music coming from my Sharp! I'm more than happy with my purchase.

I use this in my garage to play my cds great sound from the speakers easy to use