Advantages: Easy to copy tapes, nice bright sound, easy to use Disadvantages: Sounds notably flatter than cd players, tapes have been phased out, quite noisy
The tape player almost feels jurassic when you consider that subsequently the the compact disc the mini disc followed and could arguably be superseded themselves by blu ray audio. However it certainly brought back nostalgia when listen to this cassette player. As people will have noticed already due to the age of this player and due to manufacturers ceasing production of cassette players, it is now only possible to purchase these second hand. This ... ...benefit of picking up a bargain for very little outlay. Upon seeing this cassette player again, you are instantly reminded of why in it's heyday it was such a popular product. First of all, we have the sturdy rugged built design which means barring accidentally dropping this on the floor, it is definitely built to last. Secondly the attractive feature of this is the twin cassette deck facility which allowed for the easy copying of one cassette to ...
grandchamp 15.09.2009
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Advantages: Number of features Disadvantages: Only single deck record, and pretty noisy
Its true, I don't think anyone really uses cassettes anymore. But a cassette player was the only device missing from my hifi set up, so when I saw this in my local town I thought I might as well get it...then I could listen again to all those dusty tapes that were now packed away in a box.
The good thing about this device is it has two tape drives. This means that you can copy from one cassette to another. Handy if you have a recording of a radio ... ...out. However, you can only record on one of the decks, not both. You eventually get used to this though, and its rare that you need two copies of the same thing anyway.
Each deck has an electronic counter that is easy to reset whenever you want. The rewind feature can also be set to stop rewinding when the counter reaches zero. This is very useful when you don't want to go right back to the start again.
For some reason there is a speed control ...
03bintls 06.08.2006
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(+) high sound quality, diverse functions, record to tape mode, record from tape mode (-) usless instruction manual, useless recording programme, not all cables supplied
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