JVC RV-DP100 Cassette/CD Boombox

Epinions way of finding this stereo the long way is: Home > Electronics > Audio > Stereo Components > MiniDisc Players > JVC RV-DP100 KaBoom! Stereo Boombox. But there is a mistake there. This system does not play mini disc's. I have no idea why they said it does, but it does not.

So I'm at the mall and I walk into one of the many electronic's stores. My eyes fell upon a large object shaped like a cylinder. I walk toward it and start to press buttons. I liked the drum pads, the mixing features, the guitar and mic jacks (even though a microphone), and the rest of the features.

After working many hours doing a job some might call strange, I finally got enough money to buy it. I got it for $309 (Canadian), great value. I set it all up in my room (it took longer to take it out of the box than it did to put it together) and popped in Evil Empire by Rage Against The Machine. The first song has some nice bass so I turned up the subs and enjoyed the low frequency sounds that came from those 2 speakers, my dad didn't like it too much though. I gave it a little volume and continued to enjoy.

One day in the summer I was playing that same CD and was messing around with the mixing features at the same time, with my bedroom window open. My neighbour was outside at the time and he came over and said that he didn't know rage had a DJ. The mixing goes right in with the music that well. You can change the levels so the scratching comes in louder or softer and same with the drums.

One feature I really liked was the sleep timer. I set the timer, put on some music, and fall asleep listening to whatever I wanted. It also has an alarm so you can wake up to music instead of an annoying beeping sound.

The only real drawbacks of this system are its lack of power and a noisy tape deck. I had a small bed room (about 10.5" X 7") when I got this stereo and it was great, but I now have a much larger room and it just doesn't fill it anymore. The tape deck makes so much noise when switching from FF to play or RW to stop or any other combination that my dad could hear it in his room.

I got a guitar a little while ago and hooked it up to this stereo. Well, this stereo definitely wasn't meant to play a lot of guitar. The stereo has no effects or ways to change the tone of the guitar like a real amp would, so you'd have to buy effect pedals to change the sound. The clean sound is pretty good though. One other thing is that the guitar at max volume is much quieter than say a CD would be at full volume. When playing along with a song on a CD or tape, you can have the level for the guitar turned all the way up but you'll still have a hard time hearing it unless the main volume on the stereo is at around 15-20 which is another downfall. I do realize that the guitar was not the main thing JVC was focusing on when they built this stereo, but I think they could have done a bit of a better job with it.