This radio gives a ten dollar sound for ten bucks. It must have been designed back in the 70's, and here's why. Sound from the speaker is OK, but when I plugged in my good pair of earbuds I only got one earful. Spent the next half hour roaming the house looking for an old fashioned mono set. Found 9 pair ranging from expensive to ones that I've walked of of airplanes with, but none of them worked. Don't even know where you could find a pair of those things these days. I guess Sony must have found a few hundred thousand of these antique radios stuck back in a warehouse somewhere and decided to unload them at a firesale.