I have one of those silver plastic Aiwa stereos in my teaching studio that I picked up at Best Buy for about 120 bucks about 4 years ago. It has a 3 CD turntable, a dual tape deck (recording/playback remember those?) and AM/FM radio. Quite honestly for $120 it is hard to beat. The one problem I found after I bought it is that it does not have a balance control for left to right adjustments. So you can not turn off one channel on play along CDs. I just happened to have an old Realistic stereo remote speaker switch from Gadget Shack (Radio Shack) which I could hook up to it to accomplish this. The unit is about a foot tall and a foot wide and the 3-way speakers are about the same height and only 9 inches wide. It does not have a sub woofer but the bass boost is quite nice. Also the CD player is CD-R/CD-RW and MP3 compatible (whatever that means And it comes with a remote!
Again this is not audiophile stuff here but for $120 what do you expect. Also it is fairly small and fits on a book shelf. The model number is CX-NAJ20. Probably no longer available but I am sure there are similar or better models out there now. It is amazing the quality of these bottom feeder type units they are making now.
For upstairs in our sitting room I have a nice Harmon-Kardon receiver and CD player but that was a bit more than $120!
ken k
B&H imperial E flat tuba
Mirafone 187 BBb
1919 Pan American BBb Helicon
1924 Buescher BBb tuba (Dr. Suessaphone)
2009 Mazda Miata
1996 Honda Pacific Coast PC800
If you have a computer, you can buy some really nice computer speakers for less than $200.00. Your PC can play audio CDs as well as any other digital media files.
Email me for some reccomendations.
No one who tells you what you want to hear at someone else's detriment is acting in your best interest.
Mnay people spend more on their sound systems (I know several who have spent more thran $100,000) than we have on our instrument or instruments. I just point out that expecting a $100-$200 sound system to sound good is about the same as thinking that a $100-$200 tuba will sound good. Then again some people, both tuba players and audio folks, don't have any ears. If you want your sound reporduction system to reproduce a tuba playing in the low register with good sound your aren't going to get it done with a cheap little sub.
Cheers, Phil
And it comes with a remote!
