Portable Cassette Player Tape Recorder. Record to Cassettes via Mic or Aux in. Built-in Speaker to Listen to Cassettes. Includes External Mic, Aux in Cable and AC Adapter

Why did you pick this product vs others?: This is what you remember from years ago for a tape recorder/player. Although it does have a microphone that comes with it, which I guess is an upgrade. The price point for this product was great and it’s a good solid good quality tape player. I recommend this product.

My 7-year-old was super excited to get this and record his own tape. We found a stack of tapes that I recorded as a kid back in the 90s, and of course, he wanted to be just like me and record his own. So we ordered this, and away he went. He was so happy using it, and I loved seeing him enjoy something like that. Anything that makes him that happy gets 5 stars from me.

If all you want to do is play back cassettes you've already recorded on another device, this product will probably suffice. But forget about trying to RECORD with it and capture a clean recording. It is terrible. There is a loud HISS sound in the background that obscures much of what is recorded. I tried it with the microphone it came with, and also an external device that can be plugged into the AUX input. The result was the same. Very bad. I suspect this so-called recorder does not come with any sort of noise suppression built in, the result being you will get unwanted, overwhelming hiss and not a clean recording. This is not "normal" tape hiss; this is something much worse. I realize this is a very inexpensive device, but in reading some of the other reviews for this product from people who rave about how great this machine is, I went ahead and ordered one. That was a mistake. I am surprised anyone would think this can capture a good recording without extraneous noise in the background. BTW, I used a good quality, new cassette -- in fact, two of them -- and the result was the same. By contrast, I used an old machine I was getting ready to retire and it recorded beautifully WITHOUT any hiss. (But my old machine has a problem rewinding, hence I bought this one). I cannot in good conscience recommend this device and now if I seek a refund it will probably count against me. But in my line of work I routinely need to record interviews I do and this "Deluxe" recorder will not do the job.

Excelente

The product works great as expected but when it's connected via AC adapter and also connected to my PC via 3.5mm from the headphone port to my PC's mic port I get a horrible buzzing sound that makes the device unusable. A solution was using a ground loop isolator and that completely fixed the issue and it's perfectly silent when I need it to be. It's just a shame because the last one I had that I replaced this one with didn't need this additional hardware.

bought for my mother and she uses this every week somtimes every day and she has had this almost 2 years and still working.

Just received this great cassette player today. I had found an old tape from 1983 and couldn’t wait to hear my kids’ and old friends’ voices from the past ! The price of this item is great and the quality far exceeds what I would have expected.. I highly recommend this cassette player, such a throwback to simpler times long past ..🙂

Functions were good but the quality could be better. It only lasted a couple months and it stopped working so durability was not great in my case

Funciona para escuchar cassettes, el eliminador de baterias es efectivo; el cassette que viene incluido fue usado para probarlo y grabar, aunque genera algo de ruido blanco esta bien para grabar cositas y notas, el microfono externo para reemplazar el integrado funciona de maravilla y el cable auxiliar para grabar algo como radio o audio de celular, el audio debe estar en un volumen adecuado en el externo para que el auxiliar detecte sin problema, el boton de grabar se atora un poco pero no hay broncas 4 de 5 estrellitas yeii :D

mete mucho ruido

Do not buy this product. Squeals on pressing play. Chews tapes and record does not work properly.

No sé si el aparto viene dañado pero el ruido que mete lo deja inusable, incluso empeora si conectas el micrófono. Utilicé la fuente que viene incluida y probé distintos cassettes y siguió igual.

This item’s power plug is 2 pin and is therefore incompatible for the UK.