Nice looking system and no complaints about the sound, but what I'd recommend is thinking twice before you buy this if you have small kids or will have it in a rough environment. It's built for style not rigor - in retrospect you can tell this from looking at the construction. My son pulled the cord so it fell off the table from a height of maybe 3 feet and now the CD lid won't shut. It's probably a 50 cent part that needs replaced but for the cost to repair it I'll just buy a new unit. I had an old panasonic box for 15 years that put up with much more abuse than this box.