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Sharp XL-530H
by smaster I bought this thing several years ago as a little used item, but actually all i got was the head unit (i.e without speakers, power wire, remote and antena). It was quite cheap.... The first problems I had was to find the missing items. Speakers and AC wire was not hard to find, because this model uses regular wire and any ... common speakers will fit this machine. However I have never managed to find antena for this thing, because it has some kind of special plug which is hard to find if you dont have it. Anyway it is just a small piece of wire with a plug at the end, and it can be replaced with anything else, you just need to cover the ends of small metalic peaces coming out of the head unit. Remote - too lazy to try to find it, probably can buy some universal remote and will work fine. Anyway most of the people probably have all the things that i didnt. The speakers I have for it are only 30W speakers, they are old, but .... Anyway the sound coming from them is better than my other minisytem (Sony RX 88) 100w speakers. Thus, if talking about the sound quality - no complaints, only compliments. At first it was a little hard to get used to controls, but later on you get used to it and its all fine. Never used tape, only CD and Radio, thus cannot comment on it. CD and Radio - as I said - no complaints of sound quality, reads most of the CDs even own recorded and little damaged (again my Sony refuses to play a lot of CSs). I wish it had some other inputs - like AUX so I could connect it to TV or Computer, but it doesnt, so it cannot be used as computer speaker system or for TV. A little problem is with moving the thing around, because the CD cover and cassete rack tends to open, so u have to be carefull not to damage them. The display has a nice greeninsh color, so you can easily see everything, but provides only some information, as it is only one or two lines and black letters on green color. Anyway, I am completely satisfied with the device, it gives me good sound, the speakers I use are intended to be used only with an amplifier, but this small sharp handles them very good, so it has enoung power output. Sound is the most important thing for me, the other factors are of lesser relevance for me. Read the complete review |
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Sharp XL-HP 700H
by DrRobert Having seen a rave review of this system in What HiFi magazine (they gave it 5 stars) I decided that I needed a nice little hifi for my smoking den (kitchen). I spent a couple of hours looking for it online, and found that hienergyshop.co.uk (a part of Hydro Electric) had it in stock for 151 quid. Since they were based in Perth, Scotland ... not all that far from Aberdeen I thought I'd order from them, assuming I would get it in a day or two. Boy, was I wrong on that front. It took them about a month to get the bloody thing to me. I can safely say it'll be a while before I order anything from them again. Anyhoo, was it worth the wait, I'm sure you're all wondering. A great, big, fat, resounding YES! I was a little wary when I ordered it, as I remember Sharp stuff a few years ago used to be a bit cheap, maybe not nasty. They always seemed to make stuff with lots of decent features for the price but the build quality seemed to be a bit suspect. I am pleased to say that is certainly not the case with this little beauty. Actually, it's not all that little for a micro system, and it's quite heavy. As for features, it has a three disc CD player, an RDS radio and a cassette player. They reckon it has 100 watts rms per speaker, which seems a bit ambitious, but it is certainly loud enough for my needs. The sound quality is the main selling point here. For 150 pounds this is an amazing hifi. It puts many much more expensive systems to shame. The sound is very full and rich, with bass, mid-range and treble all extremely well defined. There really isn't that much more I can say about this thing other than I really like it. Fantastic value for money. Now that I have lived with this hi-fi for a few months I'd like to add a few more comments. I am still very pleased with the sound quality and the radio is quite good, as I don't have Sky tv I have to rely on the radio for my live football fix and this system is fine for that. One thing I will say about the radio is that I'm not all that sure how good it is at picking up certain stations. For example, I can't get the local FM station and Radio 1 is patchy at times (although that may be a blessing), I realise it may have more to do with where I live than the actual radio. The CD player sounds great, but there is a small but, it's a bit noisy loading the CD and when you have three discs in it and want to play them on the random setteing it can get a bit annoying when it changes discs. As I don't really do that it doesn't bother me, but some people might be put off by it. On the whole I still recommend this hifi for the value for money aspect alone. Read the complete review |
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Sharp XL-70H
by sandrabarber (Note: This op is actually for the Sharp XL-3500H, not the XL70H, and will be moved a.s.a.p.) One thing I really love is to have an early night and lie in bed in the pitch dark, listening to some of my favourite songs. Oblivious to the world, my sense of sight cut off, I can just lose myself in the music. Another thing I love is ... to listen to something upbeat and fairly loud while I'm at my dressing table getting ready to go out. To indulge in these two favourite pastimes, I need music in my bedroom. And my good hi-fi is downstairs in the front room. Tired of lugging an old ghetto blaster around my bedroom, I decided that it was high time I got myself kitted out with a spanking new music system for my boudoir. I had 3 main requirements: + It had to cost no more than £100 + It had to have the best sound I could get for the price + It had to fit on my bedside table (excepting the speakers) So, after a bit of research on the web, which just overloaded me with choices and left me none the wiser as I really needed to see and her the things before I could make a decision, I trotted off to Comet. Size wise it had to be a micro-system, which I love anyway because they're good looking and unobtrusive, so I headed straight for that aisle where there was a choice of about 20 different systems ranging in price from around £40 to around £400. Staring at the selection at around the hundred quid mark, my eye was immediately drawn to the Sharp XL-3500H, a compact system in light wood, clear Perspex and silver. It was different than all the others in that it had no cassette player, but was just a radio and CD player. As I don't like tapes anyway, except in my car, and have a facility for taping on my main hi-fi, this wasn't a problem. The Sharp XL-3500H was also different in that it wasn't designed in a 'stack' arrangement. Instead it had more physical depth and width than othe r micro systems, but less height. It's higher at the back than at the front, and is curved. (God, this is SO hard to explain!) Almost the whole of the front lifts up and you place the CD on a nearly vertical slanted slot. The whole lot is illuminated in a gorgeous and adjustable shade of neon blue. Below this is a silver panel that you can slide downwards to access the buttons - a nice touch as it means that the system looks very neat, and the controls are also kept clean. Looking back at the other systems in my price range, I saw that the Sharp was also giving me more power and loudness for my money. Whereas most of the systems had a total wattage of 20, i.e. 10 watts output per channel, the Sharp was offering 50 watts total output. More than enough for my bedroom, in fact. The radio was the standard 2 band AM/FM and comes equipped with RDS, which for those who don't know allows you to set it to receive things like newsflashes, traffic updates and more from stations who put out this information on a specially designated frequency. This is particularly useful when I'm getting ready for work in the morning, as the local traffic news bursts in every 20 minutes or so. The radio is easy to tune, either manually or automatically, and can handle up to 30 presets. The speakers are 2 way and have removable nets. There are separate bass and treble controls, and a 'surround sound' system which you access at the press of a button on the remote control. using the surround system gives the music a much 'fuller' sound. Ah yes, sound. Taken me a while to get to the crux of the matter. The Sharp XL-3500H sounds very good indeed for a £99.95 50 watts machine. It can get very loud, and at every volume level (except very low) you can pick out all of the instruments individually. It has a nice deep bass, but this does not come out muffled or shake the floorboards. Instead it underpins the music with a satisfying boom. Other features are a clock, a timer (which means you can use it as an alarm clock, or set it to switch off after a certain time period), an energy-saving standby mode, headphone jack, an optical digital output for MD and CD-R, the ability to play CD-R and CD-RW, and a fully functional remote control. The remote control is, in fact, the only thing that lets this system down. The style doesn't gel with the rest of the machine (it's black and silver), and the buttons are very small and difficult to use if you've got long nails or fat fingers. However, that is a small quibble. I am very impressed with my new machine. It's not the standard I would choose for my house's main hi-fi, but for my bedroom it's superb. Setting up the system physically was very quick and simple. The instructions were clear and there are few spaghetti wires to bother about. Tuning the radio and setting the clock were equally painless when following the instructions in the excellent handbook. Overall, I think you'd be hard pushed to find a hi-fi any better than this one for under a hundred quid. Indeed, a search on the web after I'd bought it revealed that I'd got it at a very good price at Comet as other sites were selling it at up to £130. So well done Comet, well done Sharp, and well done me for making a good choice! I'd like to give 4.5 stars, because of the poor remote and lack of tape deck, but as I can't I'm being generous and giving 5 stars for what you do get for the price. Read the complete review |
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