Our Overall Score:
9.4/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SONY CFD-S70 Boombox review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SONY CFD-S70 Boombox is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Radios category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £64.99
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SONY CFD-S70 Boombox. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sony or alternative products in the Radios category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SONY CFD-S70 Boombox
SONY CFD-S70 Boombox scores 9.9/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Radios. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SONY CFD-S70 Boombox, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SONY CFD-S70 Boombox and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Radios, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Radios? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SONY CFD-S70 Boombox scores 8.3/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Radios category was £920.40, whilst the cheapest we found was £2.97 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SONY CFD-S70 Boombox down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Radios category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Radios category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SONY CFD-S70 Boombox.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Radios category. This was £98.70 from the 101 products we found in that category. So SONY CFD-S70 Boombox actually comes in below average at £64.99.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £920.40 and the least expensive, which was £2.97. In total we found that of the 101, 51 were more expensive and 47 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SONY CFD-S70 Boombox.
Prices of products from Sony
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sony. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sony, which was £453.54 of the 318 products we found. So SONY CFD-S70 Boombox price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sony was £6.99 with the most expensive coming in at £9999.00.
Prices of products from Sony and in the Radios category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sony that sit specifically within the Radios category.
For this we found that the average price was £64.11, making SONY CFD-S70 Boombox at £64.99 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £129.00 with the lowest priced item being £24.99. In total there were 2 items that were more expensive and 6 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SONY CFD-S70 Boombox
SONY CFD-S70 Boombox scores 9.9/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SONY CFD-S70 Boombox is.
Overall score
SONY CFD-S70 Boombox scores 9.4/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sony so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SONY CFD-S70 Boombox by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SONY CFD-S70 Boombox
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: CFDS70
- CD / cassette player30 presetsMains / battery poweredUp to 23 hours battery lifeAux-in
- EAN: 4548736026582
- Description: Top features: – Enjoy rich sound with MEGA BASS – Connect your smartphone and listen to your portable music collection – Find your favourite stations with up to 30 presets – Listen to your classic albums with built-in CD & tape players Enjoy rich sound Enjoy rich stereo sound fuelled by Sony’s MEGA BASS sound technology that brings your music to life, whether it’s from the radio, CD player or songs stored on your phone. Connect your smartphone The Sony CFD-S70 lets you listen to music stored on your smartphone, tablet or music player in stereo sound. Simply plug in your device using the audio-in jack and enjoy sound more powerful than your mobile device’s speakers. Find your favourite stations The CFD-S70 FM/AM Boombox features 20 FM and 10 AM radio presets, making it easier to find the stations you want to hear. Listen to your classic albums The portable unit neatly conceals a CD player so you can enjoy even more of your music collection. With batteries inserted, the radio provides up to 10 hours of playback. Don’t stash your old cassette tapes away just yet. In a tribute to boombox music players of old, the CFD-S70 features a built-in cassette player letting you relive memories of bygone musical eras.
- Product ID: 3596438131
