Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It's decent. I've read some of the negative reviews and can respond to those. First off, I'm an audiophile and have never had less than 7 speaker systems in my car(s) and currently have 9 speakers in the car I drive now - self installed. The last 2 I added for imaging purposes; I like my music to sound AWESOME. This portable ION box has an 8 inch woofer and about a 1.5 mid/tweeeter and sounds absolutely fine for what it is. Not too tinny, not too bassy, etc. Nice tonal quality. Someone said the Tuner was weak - not true - I dialed in a classical station that is always a little fuzzy, down low on the FM dial, and it sounded better than I expected. So I'm pleased with the tuner. Someone said the telescoping handle was weak and flimsy and that's just the way they're made. The one on my high end Jensen tool box was the same way, as are the ones on our luggage; so pleased again. "Professionals" of the spoken word, or musicians who weren't pleased got what they paid for and should have known better than to have boughten anything other than a mult-channel, full blown PA with seperate speakers. Something in the $400-$600 range. Something from a store in which you could have tested it for your needs - pscht! Someone said that the microphone is junk - it is. I can tell just by holding it. If it was worth anything it would have come in a padded zip-to-close case and weighed 5x as much as it does. Regardless, I plugged it in and gave it a try - it's junk - lol. Someone said that the unit begins to distort around half volume; it does begin to distort but at 3/4 volume rather than half. Any amplifier is going to eventually start clipping as the volume (amplitude) maxis out... unless you have some sort of limiter circuit. Which brings me to my final point. The JVC Kaboom boxes are the loudest, best sounding, most dependable portable systems I've ever used outside of a full blown PA and the Kaboom boxes have a limiter that controls distortion levels - nice... but the JVC product is also another $80 - $100. Anyone within 30 feet of this ION box will be pleased, AND it has it's own rechargable battery - very cool. Enjoy