- 40W Ultra Slim Wall Mountable Design W/ Power Sliding Door
- IPod Speaker Docking System
- Compatible With IPod And IPhone
- Advanced Bamboo Cone Speaker & Dual Passive Radiator
The slim and compact design of the SC-HC30 is best matching for your room. It can easily be installed in limited places, like a small bedside shelf or your desk in your home office. Also with a wall-mountable design, the SC-HC30 lets you choose to place your audio system the way you want, to stylishly match with your interior. More rigid and lighter evolved bamboo cone material has been adopted for speakers. With the new bamboo cone speakers the sound becomes much more responsive. Vocals are more pure and clearer, and the dialog being crisper and easier to understand than ever before. Simply dock your iPod or iPhone, or insert the CD and enjoy your favorite music with high quality sound.
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List Price: $ 149.95
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July 16, 2010
#1
Review by Mike B
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I purchased this sleek Panasonic Stereo System primarily to use with my IPOD and the IPhone that I have pre-ordered. I am using it in the kitchen and it takes up very little space on the counter since it is only 3-4 inches deep. For it’s size, it produces a rich sound and the clarity of the speakers is superb. It has a full-function remote with buttons for many features that I’m sure I’ll never use that others might appreciate. In addition to the remote, there are buttons for the main functions on top of the system that can be easily memorized (by placement) and accessed.
After attaching the AM and FM antennas, the various stations were easy to preset and sounded good. I have yet to play the CD player, however with the IPOD, I don’t really plan on using it much. The system can be mounted to the wall if you want to put holes in your walls and have the power chord hanging down from it, however it takes up so little space, I didn’t really feel the need.
The system looks high-tech and it sounds great. The bass sounds much better than you would expect given the slimness of the speakers. It has an AUX-In port on the back of it if you have an MP3 player as well. The only minor negative is accessing the IPOD dock. The first thing you need to do is hit the IPOD button which slides the front panel to the right exposing the IPOD dock. Once open, it has a lever that needs to be pushed and then it tilts out toward you for easy removal. While not difficult, it all takes time which I’m a little concerned about when I get my IPhone and I hear it ring. If you leave the IPOD dock open the silver CD portion of the front panel covers more than half of the right speaker and there is a noticable difference in sound.
All in all, I’m very happy with it and when not in use, it just sits there and looks cool! If you are only concerned about the quality of sound, I’d suggest a boom box with larger speakers such as the Sony MHC-EC69i Mini Hi-Fi Shelf System which is much cheaper, has an additional 60 watts and has a deeper bass sound that fills up a room (I have one of these as well).
July 16, 2010
#2
Review by Douglas Tessier
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I bought this unit for my girlfriend so she can have a good platform to play her Ipod from. I just went over and took a look at it for the first time. I am very impressed. You can access the playlists and song titles and info and it just looks great. The sound was impressive from such a small unit. it seems very sturdy and is stylish and classy on her mantle. Thumbs up to panasonic for delivering what I hoped was to be a good looking good sounding product. I am not disappointed in any way. Now I am going to buy one for myself!
July 16, 2010
#3
Review by Tzigane
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We were looking for a compact CD/Radio player for our bedroom that also had and Aux. channel for our XM radio unit. After looking all around our small town we came to the conclusion that what we wanted was either priced too high or was not in stock (which happens a lot here) we found this system on Amazon. The company offered a fair price and great shipping. The stereo was shipped right away and when it arrived, we found that the sound quality was excellent. It also comes with a remote and a “sleep” option of 30 minutes or 60 minutes or longer, which is great for the bedroom. It also comes with a wall mount if you want to use it, although it doesn’t take up much room on top of a dresser. One other great feature is that the display lights can be dimmed down so if you are bothered by lights in the bedroom, you can turn them way down. (We have an alarm clock that has display lights so bright, even on the “low” setting, that I swear you can see them from outer space.)
July 16, 2010
#4
Review by blissninny
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It is a beautiful design, great sound for a little unit, convenient that it plays radio, CD, ipod, etc. and love that it can be wall hung – pretty and discreet for a bedroom.
BUT! I purchased this to replace a CD/clock radio alarm unit, and would have liked to have known that this unit DOES NOT display the time! You can use the remote to display the time, and it will momentarily display the time when you turn it on, but once you’ve stopped listening, i.e. turned the unit off, there is no time display, which means that you can’t use it to see the time in the middle of the night/early morning. This seems like a huge design oversight on the part of Panasonic – most portable models even 20-30 years old routinely display the time.
Also, Panasonics customer service cannot tell me how to turn the alarm OFF if I want to sleep in! This seems like it should be very basic to figure out from the manual, or an easy question to answer for a tech rep, but no….30 minutes on the phone, and then disconnected with no answer. I am a university professor and am fairly adept at reading the english language, and the manual does not contain this basic information. Still deciding whether to return it or not (I purchased it elsewhere). Maybe someone out there has figured it out?
July 16, 2010
#5
Review by L. Schmitt
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For the money the Panasonic SC-HC30 is a very good buy. The sound is very sharp and clear. What I especially liked was I could mount it on the wall very easily. The IPOD mounting dock is a very nice feature. My kids like playing their IPODs and I use it to play my CD’s.