ONKYO CS-210 Executive Series Stereo Mini System REFURBISHED

by Onkyo

Product Details

• Item Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 30 pounds
• ASIN: B000BK81BY
• Item model number: CS-210-R
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #137,042 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 18, 2005

Product Description

Stereo Output Power: 20 watts/Ch

Integrated Single Disc CD Player

AM/FM Tuner with Automatic Precision Reception (APR) system

2-way, Bass Reflex speakers

1 Optical Digital Audio output, 1 Analog Audio output

1 Analog Audio input

4 Step Acoustic Control

RI Compatible Remote Control

Discrete Output Stage

Low Impedance Drive

Subwoofer Pre-out

Up to 30 Radio Station presets

Automatic & Manual Tuning

Single-bit DAC

Peak Search (DLA Link 2)

Frequency Response: 50Hz - 40kHz

7/8" Dome Tweeters

4 13/16" OMF Cone Woofers

Sleep Timer

Headphone Jack

3 Repeat Modes

Memory Reverse

20 Track Random Track Memory

Shuffle/Random Play

Direct Track Access

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars So-so value compared with MC35TECH, April 7, 2004

By 

unclemat (United States) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought it few days ago. It's back in the store now.

First, Onkyo naming is little bit confusing. CS-210 is the symbol of the set. It consist of R-305TX receiver with Onkyo speakers (D-N3, I believe).

It's not a bad sounding system for the price but compared with the bigger Onkyo minisystem, especially PS-509 (R-805X receiver + CD changer + Polk RT-105 speakers) which I have, it just does not cut it.

Sound is clear but it lacks the image and punch. I thought the problem is with the speakers, so I hooked up Polk RT-105 speakers which came bundled with my PS-509 (well, actually RT-105 are not real Polks, rather Polk-Onkyo joint-venture) --- better but still noticebly inferior to the R-805X(T). Also, I hooked up the speakers that came with CS-210 system to my R-805X receiver - the sound was better than with R-305TX. So it's the receiver that is weak point.

Conclusion: not worth the money if you can get refurbished MC35TECH with speakers for $250.

Other complaints: cheap remote, no way to adjust treble and bass (possible in R-805X), noisy CD player motor, lame timer (same in PS-509/MC35TECH).

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprise! Surprise!... Impressive and NO plastic!, July 13, 2006

By 

The California Consumer - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

Bought this unit for my wife's study. All we needed was something small, decent sound, plays CDs, reasonably priced, and won't fall apart in two months. Guess what? This unit is perfect and quite impressive in performance for its modest price.

This Onkyo CS-210 is my first venture into "consumer-grade audio" in years. I'm familiar with upper-end audio and have a really good notion as to what sounds good and bad (livingroom system: Arcam Alpha9 CD, Arcam FMJ tuner/pre, Spectral amp, Synergistic Research active cables, Transparent Cable interconnects,Joseph RM-25si speakers).

The reciever/amp/tuner is in a metal case as it should be. This unit has a single drawer CD which is always superior to those junky multi-drawer units, i.e. "less complexity means less problems". Controls are nicely laid out, no bass or treble knobs though. There's a "presence/tone" button, kind of funky but this is $169.00 system after all. Not a huge amount of power but for small livingroom or a bedroom, very adequate. I'm really surprised at the quality of the sound. I checked out a number of these budget systems at a lot of stores and they were either all plastic and sounded awful or hideous and cheap looking and still sounded awful. Onkyo and Dennon are probably the last "decent consumer grade" audio equipment companies out there. Everything else is trash and pretty much a waste of money. That's why I was so surprised that this unit was available at this price point. A definite pat on the back to the Onkyo guys for maintaining a little integrity and not making overpriced throw-away junk like 95% of the other consumer-grade electronics companies.

Very surprised that the speaker enclosures were not made out of plastic. Very interesting, the Onkyo guys obviously looked at some of the higher-end speakers as references to copy. Dimensions very similar to Paradigm, Dynaudio, B&W speakers. The speakers are actully fairly articulate; defined highs, smooth mid range and crisp bass. These are in no way anywhere near upper-end bookshelf speakers but they're light-years ahead of most of the "consumer-grade" garbage you find at the local membership warehouse store, chain audio/video stores, or department stores.

If you want to improve the sound of your speakers, go to an audiophile store and buy good quality speaker cables, it's not cheap but the difference is like seeing the world in color for the first time. Add speaker spikes to the bottom of your speakers, this will clean up the muddiness in the bass and give much more deffinition. If you really miss that bass punch, buy a powered subwoofer, there's a preamp out for the sub on the back panel. You can also hook up an Ipod to this unit. Head down to RadioShack and get a 1/8" plug into two phono-plugs audio cable and plug it into the aux input on the back panel and you've got a killer mp3 amplified system for about $5.00. I have a 1 gig memory card loaded with music in my Palm TX and it sounds great plugged in to this Onkyo system.

For the money, this unit is worth it. It could use more bass but that would mean a more powerful output stage and that means more money. The bass is actually more than adequate. Am & FM tuner works fine, iPod compatable, well made and very user friendly. Onkyo makes more expensive mini-units but for basic music listening, this is really hard to pass up.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW WOW WOW amazing sound, December 16, 2003

By 

T. Plunkett "vt_tj" (va,usa) - See all my reviews
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I bought this for an x-mas gift. My wife wanted something for the living room and I looked at the Bose wave radio but those are big $$$ for what you get. So I started reading some reviews. I came across this Onkyo system. I being a Onkyo fan decided to give it a try. I was mainly looking for the best sounding CD package that 300 bucks could buy. I found it for under 200. I never thought I would own something that sounds this good. It doesn't have the MP3 ability or DVD but man does it play a CD like nothing I have ever heard before. Initially I was pretty upset after ordering it since I could of saved another 30 bucks but after hearing the sound I just didn't care. If you don't need MP3's then buy this system. You will love it. It also has plenty of hook ups on the back for add ons.