Aiwa XD-DV 370 > Reviews > Excellent value but not excellent sound quality

Author's product rating:   

Picture Playback	Excellent
Sound Level	Very Poor
Range of Features	Average
Durability	Very Poor
Value for Money	Very Poor

Advantages:	Good price, good - looking machine
Disadvantages:	Problems with playback of soundtracks

Recommend to potential buyers:

no

Full review

Having reviewed all the options open to me for a DVD player under £250, I decided on the Aiwa XD-DV370.

It certainly looks the part, plays multiregion CD's (See Slinky Steve's review for the hack) and is intuitive enough to use for a mere beginner like me. However, the specific player which I have purchased has a habit of skipping about every 10 minutes. This affects mainly the sound quality - it sounds like a record jumping.

This is a shame as the whole point of owning a DVD player is the excellent quality sound and visual playback! This fault is indiscriminate across CDs and DVDs, which play back perfectly well on other people's players.

I am currently battling to exchange this product with the reatiler I purchased it from (who do not agree with me that it is faulty). Therefore as it stands I'm afraid I can't recommend this player - it cost me £200 and is currently worthless to me!