Bought a http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/a/az1816_55/az1816_55_pss_aen.pdf Philips az1816 about 6 months ago-it's a nice USB/CD/Radio portable stereo.

The DBB bass boost feature works nicely, as do playing music from a USB device.

Playing music from a USB stick is something it took the manufacturers a while to adopt.In the past year or two,we've also been seeing more aux-in ports on portable boxes.It would seem that the popularity of docking stations has caused the manufacturers to expand the capabilities of regular boomboxes.This is a good sign as inputs were a core concept of the original boombox.As a collector of old boxes,inputs are a top priority on my checklist!

...a small sample of usb equipped portables.

the second one down is very cool, it can play usb from pc and the remote will skip tracks from usb, it also has a bass radiator and pretty decent watts too, but the best bit is it has an oldschool style vu meter only one but its a start.

i had one for a while good sound still lacks in the highs though very cool looking with loads of dials and stuff on show

I like my AZ1816 as it has a line-out jack, as well as a headphones jack.

I think it sounds very nice-the speakers are quite loud.

Also, I got a service manual for it and Sanyo makes the CD mechanism used in the AZ1816.