I was the one who reccomended sony, Mainly cause i have been looking into that waterproof setup they have.
I know lots of ppl have bad review's on sony's, but i've had 4 or 5 of them, and never had any issues. They seem to have the features i want, and controls i liked. Only issue i had was an FM antenna tuner dying after about 7 years of abuse. Now, the older ones had better EQ setups, the newer 3band setup they use sucks.
I don't mean to say that every sony is a piece of garbage, obviously many of them work as they should, it's rare for any deck to die I just see it happening to Sony more often, enough to be afraid about buying them. The other products aren't terrible but I find the ones I suggested to be of better quality.