SHARP XL-B517D(BR) Micro Hi-Fi Sound System Stereo with DAB Radio, DAB+, FM, Bluetooth, CD-MP3, USB Playback, Wooden Speakers, 45W – Brown

I used have a similar CD player with Sony. I had left it with my parents for them to use it further as I was moving more towards digital music. Several years later I found a box of old Audio CD's and fancied a player. Here are the issues with this product:1. I set the date and time and the stereo is connected it to power all the time. However the date keeps changing from today to last week, to a future date and so does the time. It rarely shows the right time and date.2. The pins for power and speaker are similar. One can accidentally plug the power plug into the speaker.3. The CD tray ejects and stays out without going back inside - in Sony it would auto-close after 30s4. Once you load the CD into the tray, you cant play directly. You have to press the eject button for the tray to go inside and then you have to hit play.5. IF you power off with the CD tray in ejected position, the stereo turns off. The Sony-would pull the tray back in.6. The remote control is not all that great. In fact, I trashed it after few tries because it had to be operated from a particular angle.However,a) it does a decent job of playing music. It is compactb) it was at a price that you can affordI am a music lover, so for me this is a trial with CD's and if it works, I will upgrade in a few years to a bigger player. It is a compromise till then.