All components functioning just fine. Unit is turning the heads of passersby. Sound quality excellent. Everything I wanted for the absolute lowest price I could find anywhere. Plus free shipping, AND it arrived within 48 hours. Glad I was willing to try it despite the negative comments I saw here.

I had high hopes for this item. It had the possibility of being battery powered, and was perfectly powerful enough for an apartment. Having had reliable performance from a modest 10 yr old JVC single CD-cassette-radio unit, I expected JVC to continue to be of high quality. I was VERY disappointed. This unit will drain top quality rechargeable batteries within 1 hour if you play a CD at low volume. Also, I have had to take it in for repairs only 2 months after purchase since the CD player is malfunctioning. A CD placed in tray 1 seems to play OK, but CDs placed in trays 2 or 3 do not. They skip, stall, or simply won't play. The technician at the local JVC repair shop said it might cost nearly as much as the unit was worth new to do the repair (though parts are still covered under warranty). I regret having bought this, and should have paid more for a Bose or similarly well built machine. A message to JVC: please return to your high quality roots. People would be willing to pay more if you made the same high quality of 10-15 yrs ago. Ignore the big box, low ball price, and low quality culture that your competitors have embraced, and go for a high end niche instead.

I ordered this product from Amazon a couple of weeks ago and returned it last week. During the first day of use, it SEEMED ok, the sound was decent, and i was fairly happy with it. But on that first day, i only accessed the first CD tray (it has a 3-CD changer...) Then during it's second day of use, when it tried to access the 2nd CD tray, it began to skip tracks, also would return to the first track on that CD... A total malfunction. I did try different CDs but all produced the same problems. And all of those CDs were commercially produced. It is Soooo annoying to spend so much time surfing and researching a product only to find it is defective from- well, ok, Day TWO!!!
I was downright shocked that this piece of garbage did not work... Bottom line- i wouldn't go near this product, and me- i'm not touching any other JVC products either w/ a 10 foot pole!

This is the only multi-CD player I've found that runs on batteries. I've been using it for at least 2 hours every day at a swimming pool (hence the requirement for batteries) for several months, in general changing the CD for each song. The batteries last 7 hours.