Sony DAV-LF1 Platinum DVD Dream System

Shame on Sony

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 6, 2006 | 1 out of 2 found this Sony DAV-LF1 Platinum DVD Dream System review helpful

Pros: looks

Cons: lacks the most basic audio system features

I made the bad assumption that a very expensive system should at least be able to do the basic things any old car radio can do. Wrong assumption. You can not adjust high or low tones. This must be one of the few systems even for sale anywhere that d...on't allow you to adjust sound. So if your hearing of high tones is not so good, or if there is windnoise on a video you have shot, or if the explosion sounds behind you during a war movie become irritating, you are out of luck with your Sony. You can not adjust sound from front to back. A twenty year old car radio lets you do that. If you like to have the noise come only from the speaker right near you so you make less noise late at night and the rest of the family is asleep, that is too bad for you. You can only adjust from left to right. The system is very slow. You can not just turn it on and insert a DVD. You have to turn it on and wait. The wiring is too thin. Sony must know this. The instruction manual tells you how to replace the wiring with a thicker gauge wiring. This is a conversation piece. You can talk with your guests about how beautiful it looks. Don't use it though because they will then laugh at your stupidity for overpaying for something that looks so pretty and does less than a car radio in a twenty year old Volkswagen. Read more Less