Portable Cassette Player Tape Recorder with Stand-Alone Microphone & Built-in Speaker, External Sound/Tapes Convert to Digital Format, USB Disk Audio Player, Retractable Handle, Headphone Jack

Great item. Easy to use. Good sound quality

This recorder is much the same as the one I used 40 years ago BUT the sound quality is rubbish, the recording capability is reasonable, the functionality (terrible word) is ok, the sound playback is like sitting in the middle of a four lane motorway on a Friday home day in Los Angeles. Extremely poor recording and playback capability . Really annoyed, as I prefer cassettes to tape all my love letters on . DO NOT BUT THIS ARTICLE.

Perfect for my job at the Magnus Institute. Records very well.

Cassette record poor, playback of old tapes good, recording using usb very good.

Perfect for retro computing as it has the required input and output (mic/ear/remote) but if you're looking for hifi quality then look elsewhere - modern cassette mechanisms just won't cut it. One thing to note is that it does not come with a power supply and it requires a decent usb power supply capable of supplying a couple amps (the listing says 1 amp but i found that to be inadequate and resulted in poor performance, or no performanceat all). I've not tried the battery power option so can't comment on that.

Works perfect

In my experience the worst reviews are no at all true. But it's a little disappointing for two reasons. Here is my overall experience so far: 1) The price needs to be watched. I bought it at a higher level than the price has been since and there is an additional voucher today. It is a pity and I would have waited had I realised how the pricing seems to work. 2) There was an initial issue and I couldn't get it to record and couldn't try again until tonight where it has recorded by the look of it, but it won't play the on the more recent Media player. That is a disappointment. 3) When I asked about the problem I was told (as confirmed by at least one review) that I could download a different media player, but I am sure no specific player was mentioned and an specific option would be helpful 4) The second disappointment has been the volume level on the recording. Much quieter than I expected and a surprise because the actual play back has generally been excellent and as good if not better than the basic players I used for many years. Perhaps a different media player will work better - I will have to see, but as a player it is fine and it does record but the volume is a disappointment - I can hear it, but my wife will struggle with that. A shame TBH Oh, and unless there was something wrong with the 4 new Duracells the battery life is not long. I'll see what happens with another batch, but although the supplied USB wire is OK and can naturally be used with a USB to socket adaptor, I was hoping to use batteries for some of the copying

Got this, very pleased with its functions and accessories, plays tapes and USB sticks well but... The recording on both the internal and lav mic isn't consistent, first recording was very quiet so I unplugged the mic and tried again - both mics were good so I did a final test recording only to find it was quiet again on both mics so it had to go back. I might have just got a bad one but will go for another model just in case. p.s. Having looked for 'another' model it seems that for this format of recorder you can only get this type under different brand names, a bit like living in the old Soviet bloc where you could only get one brand and that was it, not exactly a great choice unless you want a recorder with a radio or radio and CD player which I don't want.