Love it. Perfect system for my budget (being a college student I was limited to about $200. Good bass, Good treble. I sometimes hear some sibilance, however, I have a feeling it is on the recording and not caused by the speakers. With 100 watts total RMS its perfect for a dorm sized room and has enough power to really bounce things if you feel like cranking it.

Great sound, just as good now 3 years later as it was when I got it.

The base is nice, but could be better

I havn't had any problems with the system at all. I installed the Aiwa surround speakers and I havn't had any trouble (been over 6 months now). Same with the laser, at least for me it reads some cd's that were so scratched I thought would never play at all. It could use a sub, the base is slightly on the week side but certainly exceptable. Price wise, well I got it when it first came out so I paid the full $300, for me its been worth the money.

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Full feature remote control, sync dub from CD to tape, excellent sound, ease of use of all controls, video/aux input is handy

For $180- how can there be

This is an initial report so I cannot comment on the long-term quality of this unit. I just purchased this as a gift for my sister. Her only criteria were: digital tuner, 3 CD changer, 2 tape decks, remote control. After thoroughly research all the specs on more than a dozen candidate systems, I demo'd this Aiwa and the Sony systems mention above. The Sony systems lacked the front panel and remote control functionality of the Aiwa. I used U2's "I still have not found what I'm looking for" disc to compare sound quality. No contest. The dual 35W subwoofers and 15W midrange/tweeter combination produced clear, concise highs that lacked any degrading, sharp distortion. The bass was firm and punchy, and lacked any noticable bottoming out. The remote control is full featured controlling the tuner (presets and seek), CD player (play, stop, pause, skip/search, program, random, etc.), both tape decks (play, stop, FF, rewind), timer, bass boost, volume, power, etc. Essential everything I needed. The system is asthetically pleasing, not bland like the Sony, cheap like RCA or Philips, or masculine like the Panasonic or JVC. Beneficial features include: "Disc change" (change 2 discs while on is playing), video/aux input, four stages of bass boost, timer, and outstanding remote control. I would have liked Dolby NR on the tape desks and auto-reverse on both desks instead of one but at this price level its understandable why these are not present. I purchased the NSXA555 on sale at Circuit City for $180- regularly $200-. Can also be found at Best Buy and online at 800.com, amazon.com, and jandr.com for similar prices. Initially, I rate this a 5. I'll report later on long term use.

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very powerfull i cant believe that its only 100w

i have a 15" JBL and two 12" JBL car subs hooked up to my stereo and it pumps them HARD! my whole house rattles! it has more bass than my dads $1000 home theater system! i cant believe that this stereo is only 100w my freinds have been trying to mach me by buying the newer aiwas but they shut off or dont push neerly as much as this one. i love it. they want to buy it from me but it much rather have mine over the newest Awia

THIS STEREO IS ONLY SWEET IF YOU BUY SOME SWEET ADD-ONS SUCH AS A 12" OR A 15" OR A COMBONATION

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Either the rest of the review-ees have PERFECT cds, or they are all on crack!! I bought this system about two weeks ago, only to find that it won't play cds even with the most superficial of scratches. It seems every other player I own, including my car stereo, will play the same cds with no problem. This player is too picky when it comes to cd condition, and I'm going to take it back real soon. Fair warning to all who are thinking of buying this system...BEWARE THE SCRATCHES!!!

Bi-Amplified speaker system (wow!), good 3CD changer, Nice CD to tape dubbing features, full function remote, priced lower than you'd expect, I think it looks good

Expected more from 6.5 inch bandpass speaker design, mid-high range speaker is kinda crappy, ho-hum dual cassette deck, strange CD playback

I think my dad got this system for around or under 200 bucks. For the price, it has some really neat features that'd you'd expect with more expensive systems. The Bi-Amplified speaker system is nice in theory since the lows and mids-highs are handled by seperate amps. It's CD to tape editing is also quite nice, but a bit complex and useless unless you need to make cassette copies on the go (I just grab a few CD's with my portable). It also has a host of other features that are standard on most systems of this kind, so this review will concentrate on the sound aspect and the Bi-Amped speaker system (rare on a system priced like this one).
As I stated earlier, a bi-amped system like this one has seperate amp sections for the bass and mids to highs and usually sound better (for reasons best left unexplained in this review because it would take too long). Unfortunately, the speakers that are included do not do this system justice. Though they do play clean and loud, they limit the full potential somewhat. The 6.5 inch woofer is housed in a bandpass enclosure that looks much too small to allow it to reproduce deep bass. It does have a nice tight and punchy sound, but none of the deep rich sound you'd hear from a regular set of speakers with 6.5 inch woofers. It's mid to high range speaker is a mediocre 4 inch paper cone. It has nice mids, but I find voices are overly pronounced, with only OK highs because of the lack of a tweeter. Testing the system with a good set of headphones, I found the sound quite full and clean, so I know the electronics sound good. While testing with headphones, I also noticed that when a CD was played, a few seconds or so of the song is cut of from the beginning and the end. Though most CD's do have silence there, I find this kind of playback annoying since some songs do have material in those few seconds. I'm not a fan of EQ and bass boost settings, but the ones on this system are nice and not overdone like others. T-Bass really works on lower octaves without making the sound too muddy. I wish the EQ was user adjustable though.
Ok, I admit I'm being a bit analytical about the sound of this system. After all, it was never meant to compete with real Hi-Fi setups. This definitely has a place insmall rooms and the such. For the price, it's a great little system that's easy to use with looks, features and sound that will satisfy many people. If they include better speakers and improved the CD section (heard of horror stories where the cd changer would drop the cd inside the machine!), this system would be a killer bargain.

Full featured remote, price

Lots of them. Mainly lousey sound! I would not buy it!!

I have heard some bad sounding systems. However I have seen the price range from $150 to $200 for this unit. I used to sell them. I felt guilty because it was junk. it always broke down. If you are going to by this unit, get the service contract. You will need it. Consider the Magnavox that I mentioned above. It is much more worth your while.

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Nice display, makes great cassette recordings, nice bass

Cd's can get caught up in the back ofd it

This is a very nice stereo for its price and class, and with a THD of less than .1% who can complain. Anyway IF A CD GETS STUCK IN THE PLAYER THAN TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN AND SHAKE THE CD OVER THE TRAY, THEN WHEN YOU FLIP IT IT WILL FALL ONTO THE CD TRAY AND YOU CAN GET TO IT USING DISC CHANGE. Many aiwa multidisc units seem to suffer this same problem, oh well I can still crank this bad boy up and piss off the neighbors. And by the way, if you want to hear how much base this system can create, disconnect the speakers but not the subs, hehe then turn it up to the max with some bassic stuff like Smashing Pumkins 1971, if you stand in front of it you'll get sick...HEHEHE!

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Sharp crappy tape deck

Radio sounds clear

CD's skip, tuner is to slow to tune in channels not already programed in it. Stuid "Good-Bye" signal when turning off

I own a company in Santa Fe Srings CA, and my shipping clerk, who is a DJ during the weekends, bought this unit and brought it to work. When he 1st brought it in I looked at the quality and saw all the cheap plastic and asked him how much. He told me the price which now I forgot, but once he told me, I knew the saying "You get what you pay for" was going to come true. I said to him "I will give it 3 months for the 3 tray CD player to skip or to mulfuntion." Sure enough, 3 months to the date this cheap over grown Boom box skips half the time or repeats sections over and over again. One day when my shipping clerk was sick and I had to ship a few things in his place, I wanted to listem to either Jazz or Classical music. It was hard to fine the "On" button, I had to take off my glasses and read the fine print...there it is...off to the left, what a strange place to put a "On" button. Then there is no normal tuner dial, but had a "skip-forward button" that takes forever to change channels. A person has to program this unit in order to make it funtion correctly, and it is not easy for just anyone to quickly find and adjust it. Why make it so difficult for such simple buttons? Then when I turned it off, the unit had this stuid "Good-Bye" flash on the dial screen. Why can't Aiwa take this funtion out with a few other funtions, and put the money into a better CD player? Ratings: (4) for the sound of the radio, (1) for the cheap plastic, (2) for the 3 tray CD player that skips, (1) for the over programable but not easy to 1st use funtions. (4+1+2+1)/4=2