Pros: Good sound, much less likely to have CD changer jam.
Cons: Size and look of main unit and speakers.
The bottom line: See it in person before you buy. If you like the looks of it, then it is a good buy.
Bought the CD-MPX850 refurbished through ebay. I've only had it for a few days. It is large and doesn't look good when compared to other shelf units such as the Panasonic SC-PM19 I had before.

But on the other hand, it will probably last longer. The unit holds 5 CDs, but only lets you handle one CD at a time--- so there's much less chance of the unit jamming. Over a few months, the Panasonic jammed twice.

Before buying any of these small units that hold more than one CD vertically (no turntable) look for reports of jamming.

At first, the CD player made an unpleasant sound when it was playing, which could be heard at low volume. Fortunately, that went away after a couple of hours.

The sound is fine and is very clear.

AM and FM reception using the supplied antenna wires was very good--- much better than the Panasonic unit I had. However, I could not plug the Cable TV line into the FM antenna --- may be a problem with this particular unit.

A bit old fashioned with 2 Cassette decks. Having the 2 Decks meant that the unit had to be 2 Decks wide --- which made the whole unit wide. The 2 Decks are a bit weird. It is usual to have only 1 of the decks record. But Sharp has cheaped out on the non-recording deck because that deck does not support FF and Rewind. Would be better with only one deck.

The radio supports 40 Presets, any of which which can be AM or FM. Easy to set up. However, you can't go directly to a preset --- you have to press next or previous until you reach the one you want. But that is easy to do. The instructions imply that there is a capacitor that stores presets and clock time for a few hours in case of a power failure.

One of the nicer features is that you can easily tune the radio up or down the dial.

The alarm function looks nice. It lets you specify the function you want --- CD, Cassette or Radio. What's nice is that you can store the volume you want to wake up. You can go to sleep listening to a CD at a low volume and wake up to a radio that is much louder. Haven't tried that yet.

I use the sleep function. With my Panasonic, I could push one button on the remote, in the dark, and reset the sleep function. With the Sharp, it takes a few pushes and you have to look at the screen.

Speakers normally light up to match the sound. I don't like this feature. However, that feature is linked to dimming the control screen. My solution: don't plug in the wires used to light up the speaker.

The remote isn't laid out as well as it could be.

CD indicators on the screen can be confusing.

I haven't tried the MP3 display information function.

The auxiliary input (called game input) is at the front of the unit. There's 2 plugs for RCA cord input and a plug for Video which can be passed through the unit to video output jack. The use of RCA plugs seems standard with these units. It would be nice if there was a stereo mini-plug input so that you could simply plug in a male-male (extension) cord into your MP3 or ipod at one end and the other into the Sharp.

Instead, you need to plug an RCA cord into the Sharp and an adapter into the other end. The adapter is female RCA on one side and male mini-plug on the other. I got both at a dollar store.

I don't particularly like the look of the unit or the speakers. There are certainly others that look much nicer. If I had seen it before I bought it on ebay, I might not have bought it. Someone younger probably would like the look of the speakers more.

If you like the look of the unit, then it's a good buy for the price.