Aiwa CA-DW538 Mini Audio System
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- Number of Discs: 1
- Functions: CD Player
- Output Power: 10 Watt
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Rock And Roll!
Pros
Good sound system for the price.
Cons
No tape counter, Dolby B NR, Norm/CrO2 switch or stereo input.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Great system unless you require such features as a multi-CD changer, aux input, Dolby NR and Norm/CrO2 tape switch.
This is a good sound system for a pretty low price. It is versatile-it can be battery-powered and taken on the road, or it can be hooked up to AC power and used as a home stereo system. The speakers are detachable from the main body of the unit so they can be moved farther from each other for a bigger stereo effect.
Playback of CDs and cassettes sounds great. Has a 3-mode equalizer (Rock, Jazz or Pop) and Quasi-surround sound mode.
Radio sounds good for the most part but some FM stations always have an annoying hiss in the background no matter how hard you try to orient the antenna.
The CD player is single-disk and features repeat play and shuffle play (same track over and over/tracks on disk in random order, respectively).
The dual cassette decks are bare-bones, like all modern boombox cassette decks they lack features considered basic 20 years ago, like Dolby B NR, a tape counter, and a switch or automatic detector for CrO2 tapes. Please note this observation is not meant to knock this model because all similar sound systems also lack these features nowadays. This one does have high-speed dubbing, but the quality on the dub is very poor, with badly distorted high frequencies. Normal speed dubbing produces good-quality copies, though. The cassette recorder (Deck 1) can record from the microphone input (see below), the radio tuner, the CD player, or the cassette player (Deck 2).
The included remote control is nice. It can easily operate the radio and CD players, but it cannot operate the cassette decks.
The console has a microphone input on the front, but it's mono, even though the system is stereo. It lacks an aux line input to route sound from a source like a VCR or turntable through it. The microphone sound can be recorded alone for a live voice recording or mixed with sound from the tuner, CD player, or cassette player (as in karaoke, for example).
This Aiwa sound system is fairly basic, but it produces good sound for a low price and would do well as a stereo system in a medium-sized bedroom or other place where a full-fledged stereo component system would be overkill.
Check out the website I set up with several of my friends at http://sphs.angeltowns.net/index.html
Playback of CDs and cassettes sounds great. Has a 3-mode equalizer (Rock, Jazz or Pop) and Quasi-surround sound mode.
Radio sounds good for the most part but some FM stations always have an annoying hiss in the background no matter how hard you try to orient the antenna.
The CD player is single-disk and features repeat play and shuffle play (same track over and over/tracks on disk in random order, respectively).
The dual cassette decks are bare-bones, like all modern boombox cassette decks they lack features considered basic 20 years ago, like Dolby B NR, a tape counter, and a switch or automatic detector for CrO2 tapes. Please note this observation is not meant to knock this model because all similar sound systems also lack these features nowadays. This one does have high-speed dubbing, but the quality on the dub is very poor, with badly distorted high frequencies. Normal speed dubbing produces good-quality copies, though. The cassette recorder (Deck 1) can record from the microphone input (see below), the radio tuner, the CD player, or the cassette player (Deck 2).
The included remote control is nice. It can easily operate the radio and CD players, but it cannot operate the cassette decks.
The console has a microphone input on the front, but it's mono, even though the system is stereo. It lacks an aux line input to route sound from a source like a VCR or turntable through it. The microphone sound can be recorded alone for a live voice recording or mixed with sound from the tuner, CD player, or cassette player (as in karaoke, for example).
This Aiwa sound system is fairly basic, but it produces good sound for a low price and would do well as a stereo system in a medium-sized bedroom or other place where a full-fledged stereo component system would be overkill.
Check out the website I set up with several of my friends at http://sphs.angeltowns.net/index.html
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