Advantages: Powerful & Good Quality Sound at 360 Watts RMS, Perfect Picture, Attractive Aesthetics, Good Build, 5 CD changer
Disadvantages: Costs £430, Honks at high volumes

.... The onboard control too are very comfortable to use as they are very well designed & placements well planned but all you must do is carefully & sincerely read the supplied instruction manual in order to operate the Panasonic SCDV290 hassle free. If you don’t read the manual then you are more likely to get lost ( unless you are me – just kidding ) trying to set the machine in accordance to your need. So a very carefully thought 4/5 is what the Panasonic SCDV290 gets….. ***TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS*** ●5 DVD/CD changer, ●Front loading, auto reverse, twin cassette deck ●DTS/Dolby Digital Surround Sound/multi-channel DSP, ●AI EQ (Acoustic Image Equaliser), ●Super Sound Equaliser, ●3 way bass reflex front speaker... Read review

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Advantages: Many features to enhance sound. Performs well and looks good.
Disadvantages: Perhaps a bit dated these days.

...This is a system I owned a while ago but as I saw an advert for it recently I figured it must still be going strong so I decided to do a review on it. The Technics SCDV290 set me back nearly £300 a few years back but I see it can now be purchased for the much more modest sum of £179.99. This system comes in four stacking parts consisting of the tuner, the tape decks (which are pretty much redundant these days), the 5xdvd player and the Dolby 5.1 amplifier. The system comes with a very simple to understand installation and users guide which makes it very easy to install. The system itself is very durable and both feels and looks expensive, the cables and connections however are a lot cheaper looking and somewhat fragile but in the year and a half or so that I used this system I found no problems with any of it. Installation... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant sound quality
Disadvantages: A lot of trust in electronics

...a station which is broadcasting news and weather on FM, then go back to your music once its finished. This is ideal if you live in a built up city with many radio stations but not so good if you live in a more rural area, although it is only a minor point. Using it is really easy, all of the buttons are pretty much self explanitry, theres just the odd button i have to fin in the instruction manual - it covers all of them. As i said nothing has gone wrong so i maybe i am wrong not to trust electronics, technics does have a fantastic reputation with audio equiptment so its probably very reliable. Its a fantastic piece of kit, its stylish and looks worth more than the price so its something to show of about.... Read review

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Advantages: Low price, quick & easy order, quick delivery
Disadvantages: Long waits for customer service

...Excellent experience, highly recommended store. I wanted to buy a Technics DVD Mini Component System SCDV-290. All well-known stores had only ex-display models whereas I wanted to buy a brand new one. Even on the kelkoo the cheapest price offer was £353.00, but they were offering the same product for £279.00 and guess what only £3.95 for delivery. Wasn't that a great offer? As with anybody, I got confused and went on reading reviews about duck.co.uk and finding negative reviews I dropped the idea of buying from them. But later I noticed that the negative reviews only complained about late delivery. OK, so price is good, product is good delivery is late. Can I live with late delivery if I get the item for £70 less??? Why not? So, I ordered on Wednesday about 4:00pm. And guess what, I got the delivery on Friday at about 3:00pm. Wow... Read review

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Advantages: CRACKING SOUND QUALITY, LOADS OF FEATURES
Disadvantages: SOME COMPONENTS FEEL A BIT CHEAP, SPEAKER CABLES A BIT SHORT

...My old Aiwa HiFi was a great little unit. However, after many years of sterling service (and thumping bass) it stopped spinning up CDs. Silence came. The silence has just been violently shattered with the purchase of the Technics SCDV 290 sound system. This separates system is comprised of four parts - the RDS/PTY tuner, the twin full logic cassette decks, the Dolby 5.1 amplifier and the 5xDVD unit. The system is very easy to install with the separate units linking via ribbon cables. The only frustrating thing is that Technics has been less than generous with the wire on the centre speaker - as a result, I had to rearrange the room to bring the HiFi closer to the TV. The sound is belted out by five speakers - two, large three-way items at the front backed up by three smaller satellite units, providing sound at the rear... Read review

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Advantages: Smooth Drive, Service Warranty excellent, Comfortable and the engineering is top notch
Disadvantages: Interior a bit plain

...As I have had a few criticisms over my opinion on the Aston Martin Vanquish, I thought that I would write a comment on my own car. I have had this car now for 10 months, and have had a great time with it. I had previously been working overseas and had to use many cars, as my travelling was extremely extensive, approximately 1500 miles per week. I had used many standard cars, such as Ford, Chrysler and Toyotas, however I had constant problems with technical faults on the dashboards due to heat. The main problem was overheating. I got speaking to a long distance lorry driver and he advised hire a Mercedes and you should halve your problems. So I did and the only problems I had were several punctures and a cracked windscreen, which was down to the roads that I was travelling on at certain times. When I came back to the U.K. I bought... Read review

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Advantages: Looks Fancy, Great Sound, Home Cinema in a Space Saving Hifi, Lights Up Like an Xmas Tree, Good DVD Picture Quality, Feature Rich, Fantastic DVD Audio Reproduction
Disadvantages: No Dedicated Subwoofer, Cannot expand system with further stack, Confusing Remote Control Structure,

...User Profiles you can configure, customize and save - now if that's not a player that doesnt allow a tailor made dvd experience, i dont know what is! DVD Audio is handled very well indeed, there is support for Dolby Digital 5.1 Decoding and DTS, as well as Prologic II for those stereo dvds that randomly appear from time to time. there's also a Technics Super Surround Mode and Digital Subwoofer Bass Boost that can be used in conjunction with the official soundtracks. Reproduction is flawless, and bass is deep and called upon correctly on dts streams. Dolby 5.1 streams do come to life, and THX tests do show all channels behave correctly so no worries there! If you're really fussy, there is also a Subwoofer Output on the back of the hifi if the digital subwoofer from the two 16cm bass drivers on the front speakers dont quite provide enough... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent quality throughout
Disadvantages: No digital input

...be accessed from either set of buttons, and the intuitave use of a shift key keeps the remote control simple and well laid out. Initial setup of the system is aided by the colour coded wiring and intellegent use of the manual to explain everything. All in all setup should take around 20-30 minutes. The remote control is solid and immediately feels of the high quality that you would expect from a brand like technics, buttons are clearly labelled and are well spaced even for my fat fingers! the remote takes 2 x AA batteries and they have an excellent life even when used constantly. The remote, i am told also has an extremely good range however i have not tested this for myself as the room that my unit operates in is rather small. The manual that is supplied with the stereo is nothing short of excellent, with clear, simple easy to follow... Read review

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Advantages: Plays DVD-RAM, 5.1 output
Disadvantages: Expensive

...DVD player in the kitchen, which we use to watch "grown-up" programs while the kids watch their cartoons). As this was the most expensive system we had bought (we got it when dixons were selling them for £400) and cost more than our hard drive recorder, we were worried that we would'nt be getting value for money. However I think both myself and my technophobe hubby agree it was one of our better purchases. For those that have panasonic dvd-recorders, the technics is actually made by panasonic and uses the direct navigator function that you would be familar with when playing DVD-Ram... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent sound quality and adjustable graphic equalizer providing depth to the bass surround sound. Compact system with DVD out.
Disadvantages: CD/DVD changer is slow to function and the hand control looks a little complicated wth a shift button.

...After some hours researching, reading and listening to various mini stereos at the normal high street stores I came across this Techics system. My previous system was Technics so I knew the quality would be good. (Didn't realise that Techincs and Panasonic are the same though!). My requirement was for a system with a good depth of sound and adjustable graphic equalizer, which can be hard to find on midi/mini systems, which looked good and reduced the space taken up by my old seperates system. The system contains: Surround Sound Graphic 5 DVD/CD changer Programable Radio Double Tape Deck The sound is superb with various surround sound options and speaker configuartions. The bass also has 3 levels of setting to allow your neighbours to have a rest. My taste, not everybodies, is thrash metal, and there is no distortion... Read review

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