Great mini hifi! (Kenwood XD-552)

Member Name: bytelive

Product:	Kenwood XD-552
Date:	17/11/06 (799 review reads)
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Advantages: Good sound, plenty of features.

Disadvantages: The inability to remember discs when put in standby, and cannot override power saving.

I have this quite a few years now. It has been a fantastic hi-fi from Day one! Everything works like it should. It is pretty robust also. I like the dot matrix display which makes letters look more realistic than units that show square letters.

It is 2x100 watts RMS, and has fantastic sound. There are preset equalisers, and options to add 2 Custom presets, which is rather handy!

The CD carousel works well and allows for CD Text, as I'd expect from Kenwood, though sadly its downfall is that it doesn't remember what discs were in it once the unit is put in standby.

The tuner works grand also, with RDS EON, which is handy when scanning to see the station name on screen.

The tape decks are grand also with auto reverse, etc. Of course, tapes are near a thing of the past now, and I haven't toyed much with the decks, but it plays tapes well.

Overall, a grand unit, and definitely better than some of the stereos about nowadays in regards to reliability and quality.

Summary: Great unit for the price and apart from a few small niggles, its durabilty is superb.

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