Effective and simple to use

Excellent piece of kit. I bought this as am new to playing the guitar, and used it to tune both an acoustic and electric guitar in less than 2 minutes each. You can either hold the guitar next to the onboard mic and tune, or plug in via an input jack - either way the tuner works fine. It also makes it easy to tune your guitar up or down a step too as the display simply shows which note you are playing (including flat or sharp), and a little needle hovers around the display and centres when you are exactly 'on' that note. Highly recommended.

Mum loves it!

I bought this for my mum for Christmas (although I got the red one!) - she thinks it's absolutely fantastic! Particularly the pause button so she can phone up Radio 5 Live say her piece & then listen back to herself - bless!!
The sound quality is superb even in an area with fairly weak DAB coverage. She's going to buy herself another one for upstairs!!
Faultless.

Sony Excel yet again

As always Sony excel with this system! Excellent crisp sound, more than ample power to fill any room. Very modern slimline styling. Plays CD-R's, CD-RW's, MP3 format, all sound great! Shop around and you can pick this neat little system up for a bargain price as i did.

For Small But Not Narrow Spaces

This player was bought for the kitchen, so sound quality - within reason - was not a priority. It is sold as a compact model, so as compactness was an issue it was chosen.

The build quality is perfectly good for the money and the range of features fit for purpose. The sound quality is reasonable, if a bit top-heavy and lacking in subtlety. Both CD and cassette playback are OK. The FM tuner is OK, but locally Radio Three is a little weak and it can't receive in stereo without high levels of background noise. It is nice to note that it retains Long Wave, something vanishing from cheaper models of this type.

So why only three stars? It does everything well enough except the one thing it is sold on - space. The player is certainly smaller than many other similar players. But the AC/Mains lead supplied sticks out of the back and is so large it needs an extra 8-10 cm of space on a shelf, thus ruining the units compactness. If the lead had come out of one end it would have been capable of going into narrower spaces.

So overall, for the money it is reasonable value and providing you don't listen too closely, it makes a happy sound. But allow some space wherever you put it.

Excellent but expensive

It's a Roberts - that's like saying it's a Honda i.e. maybe not stunningly exciting but reliable and quality.

It's easy to tune and compact as a radio. Picks up every (analogue) station you will ever want if it's in range. The only omission is long wave (whihc i admit is a letdown for me). The sound is acceptable from such a small box and the battery life is reasonable. It's great if you listen to things like world service on SW or even MW stations. FM has the benefit of RDS too.

It's expensive, but excellent quality. If you want a radio that's easy to tune and light to carry then this is one that should be considered.

Don't confuse the Roberts product with similar looking (cheaper) products by other companies. I have compared and you really do get what you pay for. In particular, Steepletone used to do a lookalike as do a company called Eton - I feel that these are inferior products and you should buy the Roberts one.

Early thoughts on this card

Although easy to set up, the channel search was slower than I expected, and the supplied mini aerial found nothing at all (yes, I do live in a poor reception area of Kent). The device appears work better when connected via XP Media Centre than with WinTV. Picture quality is reasonable with no breakup.
The instructions are a little vague, (you can probably download them direct from Hauppauge to check).
I only purchased this for use when on holiday, where there is no digital TV, so it will do the job if there is a reasonable areial available.
There is no remote control with this model.

Disappointed

As a woman living alone, I bought this, and was so pleased with myself that I put it together and got it to work - however, there is less than 5 feet of wire to the speakers - which meant the unit and speakers would have to sit virtually shoulder to shoulder - I wanted one either side of the hearth - and approx 2 feet above the floor - so would need at least 10 feet of wire. (allowing for a 2 foot drop to the carpet, then running under it, then up 2 feet to the shelf the other side.

Regrettably - it is waiting to go back. A friend offered to extend the leads, but I'm not sure how competent they were, and I gather I would invalidate my warranty if I did that.

Probably excellent if you are au fait with electrics. - I'm not!

Great

i bought this about 2 weeks ago and the sound quality is awesome!!!
the volume you get from it is incredible makes my house shake with the sub
great for parties.

Carefull what you buy

This is a brilliant little tuner with fantastic sound. Digital it isn't !
Sony call this a Synthesized radio so if it's digital you want, this really isn't the one for you. If it's a small personel radio you want I would recommend this one. However eighteen months ago I paid about £80 for it I'm not sure I would have paid more.

works well and good design

Looks good, buttons in right place to operate the machine and so far everything about it is sweet! Mine was black not silver so I was extra happy.

hmm...not too sure about this one..

First of all it doesn't look like any of the images on the web, so was quite dissapointed when i received it.

-Looks more plastic then anything and at almost 3cm thick the player is bulky(due to the battey compartment at the back)
-Same applies to the inline remote which has the radio built into it,it's not the easiest thing to clip on.
-biggest dissapointment was the radio its self.The reception isn't good even if i'm just listening to it at home and its terrible on the bus

I bought it because its a hi-md player, and a bit of a novice at these mp3 things so i liked the option of recording from a hi-fi. Really wanted to like the thing but in the end wasn't happy with its size, style and radio reception so had to return it. Now i have to start looking for another mp3 player and already my head's hurting from all the choice out there, especially reading all these differnt reviews!

Hope this was of help.