Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Hard to believe there are no reviews for this excellent quality, updated boom box, so here goes. When my old boom box with AM/FM radio, CD player and obsolete cassette tape player died, I wanted a replacement without the cassette tape player, since I had long since gotten rid of all my noisy (compared to a CD) and fragile audio cassettes. This Sony unit was perfect. The USB and 3.5 mm audio auxiliary audio input jacks are not important to me, but nice to have. Since a cassette deck isn't needed, this unit is delightfully more compact and lightweight than the RCA boom box it replaced. Audio quality is first rate (as expected), with plenty of volume. The front panel control buttons work fine and are intuitive to use. The AM/FM radio is a true digital tuner, with ten memories for AM, twenty for FM. Sensitivity for both bands seems fine. Beware of other manufacturer's boom boxes claiming "digital," which can also mean imprecise analog tuning merely with a digital readout. The CD deck worked flawlessly (again as expected). The usual options for single repeat/repeat all/shuffle are available. This unit can be powered via the provided 120 VAC line cord, or six C cells. Power is drawn from the batteries only if the line cord is not plugged in. Two negatives, for this vendor, not the unit: First, it's a model ZS-PS30CP, not a ZSPS30CDAUX. Second, and contrary to the ad, it did not come with six C batteries. It did come with the advertised separate blister pack 3.5 mm-to-3.5 mm audio cable, and a Trisonic laser lens cleaner kit. I will definitely buy another one of these, when my other old-style AM/FM/CD/cassette boom box dies. Looks like Sony makes white and slate gray colored versions, too. Hopefully Amazon will expand its inventory to include those other colors.