Lauson Woodsound NXT564 Boombox with CD Player, MP3, Portable Radio, Stereo with USB, CD Player for Kids, LED Light Function, 3.5mm Headphone Jack (Green) Review

Reception was incredibly poor - I have an acceptable signal on a small 4" x 7" handheld weather receiver and much better signals on all the other boomboxes in the house. This thing is useless as an FM radio, except maybe for a very strong signal or two. On my particular machine, the power cord didn't fit properly into the outlet on the back of the machine and the power kept cutting out. I don't know if it's just an issue with that, but it looks like it's a design issue with the base not being…

Pros: Small and compact Bad: Difficult to open - no precise open/close button. The hole at the top often gets stuck and the only way to open it is to pull it, so we ended up bringing it back. It also doesn't always play when you press the play button. It takes a few tries by pressing the button before it works. Sometimes we just had to walk away from him and come back because he just wasn't playing. Conclusion: I bought this for my daughter to listen to audiobooks and CDs - we never used the…

Here's how it works: The multicolored lights in this CD player/radio seem to follow a random pattern to me, and the same pattern whether I'm listening to Lawrence Welk or Def Leppard. The light not only shines on the edges of the speakers, but "penetrates" the slightly translucent plastic housing, bypassing the shadows of tangled cables and other things inside. The speakers themselves are recessed into the cabinet behind metal grilles, are about 2 inches in diameter, and appear to have some…