Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It's not easy to find a reasonably priced and simple CD player with built-in speakers, but this looked promising. We purchased for a Christmas present - the extra features and compact design were nice. Unfortunately, it completely died a few months after the 90 day warranty expired with gentle daily use of primarily the CD player. Also, it doesn't have shuffle mode for the CD. As per the warranty PDF our only remaining option is to contact Spectra and send it - prepaid - to them for repair, at our cost. For a ~$40 CD player that died so soon, we decided to not even try that. Instead, we're pulling an old boombox CD player from a family member's garage, dusting it off and using that - apparently that can last decades instead of months. As to how it died, first the CD player stopped working sporadically - it would read the CD and show how many tracks but you couldn't do anything; powering it on and off again until it worked seemed like a stop-gap resolution. It then died completely a month after with the same symptoms. After that, the rest of the features stopped working - the radio does nothing, the Bluetooth does nothing and the aux-in doesn't work. We're now left without the CD player and with a piece of landfill that lasted less than a year. Maybe this was a lemon, maybe not. I hope other buyers have a better experience.