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- Compatibility: iPod mini; iPod nano 1G, 2G, 3G; iPod classic 4G, 5G
- Stylish desktop design with high-end metallic front panel
- USB Direct connection for portable USB MP3 players
- Play MP3/WMA-CD, CD, and CD-RW in the slot-loading CD player
Product Description
Philips DCM230 iPod Docking Executive Micro system allows you to enjoy your Ipod music in HiFi sound quality. Stylishly designed with a cool metallic finish, sleel system features smart functions and boasts total 30W RMS power for truly dynamic sound. Play and charge your iPod. USB direct connection for portable USB MP3 players. Play MP3/WMA-CD, CD amd CD-W. Digital tuning for station presets. Dynamic Bass Boost for deep dramatic sound, Digital sound control for opt
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This is a great little box in almost every way, and so it is more useful, I think, to say what the downside is.
The CD player remembers where it was only during the pause-state, and the pause-state doesn’t last very long. Turn it off, and you’ve lost your place. This is a minor issue, because a small pad and pencil an resolve it.
Considering that the external FM antenna, in my location, does not have to be extended, it would have been nicer to have an FM antenna built-in and just have the external antenna for those of us far from a signal source.
Other than that, my wife has been delighted to be able to listen to any kind of current CD, her iPod, or a USB flash drive with music files on it (the drive has to be formatted as a Windows flash drive, which can be done on an OS X Mac as well as on a Windows PC), or listen to the radio.
The sound is very pleasant to listen to and is high quality considering the size of the speakers. In fact we intend to get a second one for another location in the house.
Rating: 4 / 5
Better than average sound for the money. Great options included ipod,radio,cd, and aux. Nice volume for main source in a small room, or for background music in a larger room. Good option for the pricey Bose system plus more features.
Rating: 5 / 5
I was looking for an all-in-one micro music system / boombox, and Philips DCM230 provides everything I wanted. Many systems I searched around had one thing or the other missing. Some didn’t have a USB port and others didn’t have the Aux audio port.
I am going to give this to my parents. I can just drag and drop some MP3 songs for them on a 2GB USB stick without needing to burn the songs on CDs. My mom and dad (they are old school) can just plug and play. The Aux port was needed for using Ipod Shuffle. And of course, there is the Ipod dock (which I will need whenever I visit them), CD Player and AM/FM/Clock.
The sound is very good and the system looks slick. I’m seriously thinking about buying one for myself too. Overall, it’s a good value for money.
Rating: 5 / 5
On the surface this looks like it could work as a clock radio, but the description of this as a speaker system is more appropriate. For that purpose its great. The unit feels expensive and solidly built.
It also has great sound for its size. The CD player is a bonus that adds flexibility.
The system does not work as clock radio or alarm clock for following reasons:
- the clock is only visible if unit is playing and for a few minutes after play stops. Then it goes dark.
- has a feature that kind of works like an alarm, but not really. There’s also no snooze feature.
Rating: 4 / 5
I loved this player for all the reasons the positive reviewers mentioned, and even now I like the parts of it that still work.
However, after several months — long enough for the unit to go out of warranty — the CD player stopped accepting CDs. It ejects all CDs — not only defective ones, but ALL. There’s nothing in the troubleshooting documentation or on the Philips website that deals with the problem. A properly used CD player should last more than nine months, I would think.
Rating: 2 / 5