Advantages: Good quality chassis, good sound quality, does everything for the price, looks nice. Disadvantages: Inbuilt handle could have been better, silver version better than white -preference.
I needed something to listen to while I worked at home, in the garden and in the office and I needed it quick. Paying a quick visit to my local Bennets I picked up the AZ102N, a CD/Radio by Dutch manfacturers Philips.
Because I wanted something cheap and cheerful that would be subject to a few knocks I picked up Bennet's own brand £19.99 stereo which had unfortunately sold out, this was the next cheapest thing but I am glad I picked a reputable brand because it fulfills all of my needs as a radio and CD player.
It was very well packaged with a power cable, instruction manual and cardboard packaging (very environmentally conscious there). The picture for this review is silver, mine is light blue and white which does not help with dust or grime. I feel the silver version would have hidden day to day scratches and dust better.
The stereo ...
Theavens2005 04.05.2009 (05.05.2009)
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Advantages: Reputable brand Disadvantages: Limited range of features
The PhillipsAZ 1004 is a very basic portable stereo with a radio, cd, and tape facility.
The design is quite standard for this type of portable stereo, with a speaker on each end, cassette section in the middle at the front and the Cd player on the top in the centre. It has a large foldable carry handle and a small aerial. Phillips should note that this is probably the wrong way round, it should be a small carry handle and large aerial, not the other way round.
The radio is only two bands, FM and MW, and is manual tune only, it is not digital tuning. The reception is not really up to much on this model, so I find it best to listen to radio stations that have a pretty good transmission power. As a general rule of thumb, if you don’t get a reasonable reception for a particular station on a good stereo, you will have ...
tokenboy 31.01.2005
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Advantages: Pure, True Sound, Very easy to use Disadvantages: Having to listen to inferior systems when not at home
Being a very busy person at work, I like to relax by playing my guitar, often along to the radio. My brother told me about the DAB CD Radio he had bought just after Christmas. He had bought a Philips DAB CD Radio and he said it was great. With my brothers usual conservative nature, I was quite surprised at his enthusiasm. This was something I had to find out more about.
I bought the same system a week later at my local Argos store. To be honest I dont know the first thing about all this 'Digital' stuff, but my brothers recommendation simply could not be ignored!
So, disguised as a present for my wife, I opened it up and started to 'show' her how to use it. Sadly I just about managed to turn it on before having the feeling that I should really read the instructions next, so as I started to read the fairly flimsy Manual, My wife ...
the_hendon_lad 20.03.2005
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