Philips AZ1030 Cassette/CD Boombox

Pros: low price, quality, good sound
Cons: no remote, inadequate display, few extra features

Philips has set the standards for portable CD\Tape systems for many years now, and although they aren't anything special, they deliver descent sound and functions for a very low price. My experience with this stereo in the past 3 years has been very ...

Pros: good sound, simplicity of function, low price
Cons: works only on 240 V

This unit is definitely good value for the money. I purchased the system for two young boys for their bedroom desk, for about 80 dollars Canadian, from a store in the Czech Republic. We have had the system now for five years, and it works as well as it did the day we purchased it, after very intensive usage.

The best feature of this product is simplicity of use. There is nothing sophisticated about this product -- very few controls, and very few optional features. So if you just want to sit back and listen to music, of surprisingly good quality actually, then this is the product for you.