Sony CD Radio Cassette Recorder CFD-S70/BC Bundled with AC Power Auxiliary Cable for iPods, iPhones, Smartphones, MP3 Players, Xtech CD Lens Cleaner & HeroFiber Ultra Gentle Cleaning Cloth

I've been looking for an 'old school' style boombox, but didn't want to buy an antique used one. This Sony unit has everything I was looking for, built with current technology... decent AM/FM radio, CD player and the bonus of a cassette player. I use the Mega Bass sound enhancement, which adds some rich overall EQ, and CDs sound especially good in this thing. The cassette player is as basic as they get - no counter, making it necessary to guess where a particular cut might be, but the sound is good and it's fun to listen to old cassettes. The unit is compact and amazingly lightweight, even with batteries. I sometimes play music with my Android phone plugged in (with provided cord) and it works great for that purpose, too. Comes with good instructions and accessories. Way back in the day, I had a Sony boombox that lasted for decades, so I hope this one will continue Sony's tradition of making excellent audio products.

I bought this boombox because we just had a two-day power outage and I had nothing to listen to but a tiny Walkman portable radio, and I don't like having to use headphones when I'm trying to make and eat my supper. I needed something small and lightweight, which could use batteries, because I am storing it on the top shelf of a closet until the next power outage. For something so small, and it is really small, it sounds great as long as the bass boost is on. The volume will only go as high as 31, which does not compete very well with my air conditioner, but it is only on a few classical CD's where the volume seems a little low. The volume for the radio is excellent. It has a wonderful feature in that when you hit the stop button, it will stop the CD and return you to the beginning of the same track when you hit play again. No need to keep the CD spinning endlessly on pause. I sure wish my Sony CD changer did that. My only complaint is that the headphone jack is on the back!

I was looking for a product on which I could play CD's outdoors when I work outside. There are so few products made anymore to do this. The SONY unit has everything anyone would need to listen to music in any format from tape to MP3's. The most surprising element was when I first listened to it. The sound was actually good! I was expecting a tinny boom box sound delivery and instead got a better than decent sound with do-able bass and treble control. I payed a good price for a good product which gives me better than good results!

The CD cleaning kit with instructions really helps in keeping the CD playback reliable. Other portable CD players have failed when I get problems with skipping or the CD's not playing. The others didn't explain much about how CDs should be cleaned and inspected to prevent skipping. After months of moderate usage the Sony CFD-S70 CD Radio-Cassette-[re]corder works as good as new. Some have complained about sound quality, but I think the speaker size is kept somewhat small so the wattage is minimized to enable longer battery life. I think the sound quality is very good considering that it's a portable system that can run on batteries.

Product great, but was NO MANUAL IN& since the presets were no atypical set ups was NO WAY TO GUESS THROUGH IT! The manufacturer responded promptly,but only with a email of the manual.hense, EVERYTIME need to set up systems on radio-clock, presets, timer, cd& radio functions, must go to email on phone-with EXTREMELY TINY PRINT- & enlarge a portion at a time just to be able to even read manufacturers manual. A beyond annoying situation, which they choose to ignore,I did ask them to mail that TINY MANUAL-can you image trying to read even a line on a smartphone-you have to do to understand how ridiculous, like a bubble gum wrapper. I did explain& ask them to mail,but they ignored request. I pay the postage if that their problem. No product should come with NO INFORMATION,as this one did,is it really so hard to put the manual in a envelope& mail? Things go wrong,I get that,but why not send what I paid for- I send a paid self addressed stamped envelope if they would send me the dam manual- does little good what I can get scrolling thru email copy sent cause print so tiny! And of course printed on every inch space front& back! Multiple combos required to use system,so manual IS IMPORTANT, not to mention what other paperwork that wasn't there that probably should of been.LITERALLY NO WRITTEN INFO, if not for amazon following up, I didn't even HAVE ANY CONTACT INFO FOR THEM& STILL DONT. Again, could you please just MAIL manual that should of been with radio& any other information,since got NOTTA, what if warranty needs to be registered? Cause I wouldn't know- NO PAPERWORK OF ANYKIND IN BOX! Amazon's order info was in outer box, but just order form. You try reading manual you emailed on a smartphone screen! How hard is it to put in mail? I will pay postage

Purchased in 2018, worked for 3 years and then started to have trouble reading CDs, even brand new ones, completely quit being able to play CDs and then suddenly completely stopped working even for the radio. Typical Amazon Made in China junk. So disappointing!

This unit was purchased to replace a beloved 22-year-old Sony boombox that finally gave up the ghost. In many ways, it seemed like an improvement: it plays most formats of music files on CD; it looks compact yet has good sound. However, we miss the old one's ability to show the band in play. And a CD recording functionality would have been desirable. Even worse, after a couple of months it started skipping in CD playback. We immediately started to back up our CDs into cloud storage to protect ourselves against losing them to potential playback damage in this player.