When I compared it to my inexpensive portsble CD player, the superior quality of my player was significant.

I liked the sound quality on the boombox the most

It won't provide excellent sound quality, but I didn't expect it to for the price.

Sound quality is lousy

Very poor quality, the cd player skips and if you bump it it stops playing.

Not the great quality you'd expect by today's standards :)

The sound quality is fine - for the price.

Simple with good quality is what I was looking for, albeit in a four decades old technology.

I obviously expected it to be a better quality

it is very good quality.

This fulfilled the requirement of a working CD player, but the sound quality of the tape player is horrible

I am telling you that if you want to use this for the cassette player, DON'T! - get a higher priced, better quality model for that