Customer
2025-08-16 15:34:40
First, if you want true high fidelity sound, perfect tracking of your cassette tapes, flawless sound reproduction and total control of bias and tone, this is not the equipment for you. Spend more. But if like us, you are blessed with a library of old cassettes, CDs, have not lost your hearing completely and want to reminisce over the oldies, this is a good value. The seller is somewhere in California, and their option to ship was by Amazon USPS slowest method. It still got here a day early. Packaging - bless our buddies at Amazon, the packaging is double wrapped, very secure, and pretty wasteful. But the product is intact, and there were other reviews that really diss this machine. It arrived with no damage. The volume and tuning knobs are a little bit cheap, and you will need to reattach them. Use a little double-faced tape on the knob shaft. Radio quality is just fine. It is as good as whatever your local broadcast stations are. No, it is not a digital tuner. Too bad - you'll get over it. Like I said, spend more if you need those features. We tested it immediately, and I have some old, slightly damaged tapes, but they sounded "okay" - the machine is not going to fix the fact that the cassettes were sitting in a hot car during the summer. CDs play fine. The controls are very basic. If you want, you can take it to picnics, run it on batteries, run it off a generator. You can put it on a shelf, in a stereo cabinet, detach the speakers and set them apart. They're not high end speakers, but they'll do just fine for the average sized room. Definitely not for a concert hall or a large reception area. The connectors are basic mini-phone pins. There are some other features, like a USB port for MP3 files. Sorry, again - no aux input ports, if you need a phonograph, there are other models to look at. Overall, you will be very happy, as we are, with this purchase, and Amazon will do right by you if you are dissatisfied.
Annetta
2025-03-11 15:21:30
The volume know was not on the stereo system. I had to look got it and it was in the bag. The cassette eject button came off and I don't even use the cassette. I'm using it at work so I'm not returning it. But if it was a gift, I would have been livid. I don't recommend anyone buy this trash
Darryl Higel
2025-01-13 17:57:51
Great way to listen to music!!! easy to use, perfect size for jamming outside, long battery life, what a boombox for the buck, great value!!!