By jeff from long beach, ca on 7/10/2007

this little stereo is very nice, compact and well laid out. I have hung the speakers in the corner of the room, it sounds really good with the speakers positioned with about 3 inch clearance to the walls and ceiling. Good price, i have actually bought a second for my daughter's room, cheers

Awesome unit. I have an older JVC mini cd system that has served me well and this new unit blows that one away. The sound is excellent from such small speakers, the dvd player provides very high quality, and the unit itself looks good and "feels" good. I bought one for my other tv shortly after hooking this one up. Works great for music and watching movies on your second set.

Great little system, especially for the price. The remote seems inordinately complex for a stereo so small, but it's ok when you get the hang of it. Nice sound, nice look, nice price...

This is a product that will not surprise you.
Look: 5
Function: 5
Sound quality: 3.8

Sounds great. I was worried there would be a "CD spinning" noise, as others had reported. But I don't hear anything like that. If I have the volume on almost zero, there is some noise, but the disk spins, so how couldn't there be? Anyway, no issue to worry about. Secondly, and I'll be honest, I was actually a little worried that by buying the unit for a LOT less than the major retailers were selling it for, maybe it would be fake or broken or something "grey" like that. Nope. Original packaging, everything. Overall, a nice stereo that fills my small apartment.

I wanted a small sound system that was AM & FM and played CDs. The fs-y1 is the closest thing to perfect I could find. It does include a few features I will never use such as playing DVDs and JPEGs, but overall it is a very good system with really nice sound. Johnny Cash sounds mighty fine!

I use this system primarily as a desktop radio and CD player at the office. I wanted something that looked good, played CD, and MP3, and that had reasonable quality speakers that could be seperated for better sound. This unit does exactly what I need. The fact that it is also a progressive scan DVD player is a nice bonus, but I am not currently using that functionality so I cannot comment on it.

Pros:

* Excellent sound quality. Sound is crisp and clear with good lows and clear highs at default settings. I am in an office environment and do not listen loud often, though the sound quality has held up at louder volumes the few times I have cranked it up.
* Good looking
* Compact
* Plays every audio format that I need
* Rear auxiliary RCA audio input (I use mine for my PC but it could just as easily be used for a portable media player)
* Component, composite and S-Video outputs, RCA and optical audio outputs (I don't currently use these but may in the future - having the choice is great)

Cons:

* You must open the CD panel to plug in headphones
* You cannot cycle through radio station presets without the remote. It would be nice if the track forward and backward buttons did this when listening to the radio.
* The remote is probably an ideal DVD player remote but is not great for primarily audio functions. All of the functions for radio presets are behind the sliding lower panel of the long, thin remote.
* The FM antenna jack is not a threaded coaxial jack to fit aftermarket antennas. It's a non-threaded smooth plug (like what television rabit ears use) that my Terk antenna would not fit on. The included FM antenna is just a wire, so I had to rig something up to get FM reception.

Overall, I am very satisfied with this unit. The cons I listed are minor things, and are just my opinion. The pros of the unit are the reasons that I bought it. I would rate this 4.5 out of 5 for my uses.

It is great small system. I use it in bedroom as radioclock, to wakeup me in the morning, sometimes as CD or DVD player - to listen relax music before sleeping. Sound is much better than from another cheaper radioclock. But standard radioclock has bigger displej to show time and it is powered by battery.
I have also JVC EXD5. Both systems are very similar (sound, functionality), but FSY1 is much cheaper. EXD5 has wireless, I use it to listen radio from Internet through PC.