Review of Belkin Cassette Adapter

Advantages: Allows you to listen to your mp3 player in your car
Disadvantages: Very Poor Quality Of Sound!

...I wanted to be able to listen to my iPod during car journeys and this adapter seemed the perfect job. Its slick white style compliments the iPod very well, and looks perfect. My friend had bought the very same product to use in her car, and the sound quality was very good! She bought it for £20 in an airport, so when I saw it on Amazon for just £5.00 I just had to buy it... however... The sound quality is unbearable in my car! The continual electrical buzz over the music, and the rattling of the cogs inside the cassette is dreadful. And any slight movement to my iPod produces a terrible loud crackle over the music. When i decided it was too bad to listen to, the darn thing wouldn't eject from my cassette player. Argh! I'm not too sure if it's just the mechanism of my cassette player in my car causing the problems, because this...

evilalarm 19.02.2005 (12.06.2005) · Read review
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Review of Belkin Components Car cassette adapter Colour: White

MP3's through a cassette player in your car

Advantages: Cheap and it easy to use
Disadvantages: A little tempremental

...After my girl friend got the back of her car smashed in to by some stupid guy she had to change cars. Luckily she got a car for free from a friend of her family, unluckily this car is about 15 years old lol. We both have MP3 players and love to listen to music when we drive but this new car only had a cassette player so we were both a bit disappointed. On a trip to our local halfords i decided that i was sick of listening to old recordings of early 90's "music" and got her the Belkin MP3 cassette thingy in the hopes that we could finally listen to some good music. There are some very good things about this product and some not so good things as well. The good points are its a hell of a lot cheaper than getting a new CD player for the car. It also means that you can listen to 10000's of songs that you have on your MP3 player (or if...

Rubeenio 09.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Belkin Components Car cassette adapter Colour: White

Great sounding cassette recorder

Advantages: Great sound quality, good set of features, three heads
Disadvantages: No remote control

...Many people seem to think that cassette tapes, and analogue audio in general, have had their day. For me though, I have so many cassettes that converting them to a digital format is impractical, and buying CD copies or paying to download them, too expensive. Unfortunately, the quality of cassette decks in most mini-hifi systems these days is very poor - the cynic in me wonders if this is a deliberate ploy to stimulate sales of CD recorders and other more "hi-tech" gadgetry. Hence, I bought this machine for the grand sum of £10 second hand. I believe it retailed for under £100 new, though I suspect it has been discontinued now. I will begin with the playback side of things. When I first started using this machine, I suddenly found myself listening to lots of old pre-recorded cassettes I had not dug out for years. OK, so they were...

tcumming 08.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of Technics RS-BX646 Stereo Cassette Deck

Sony TCM-200DV Dictaphone

Advantages: Takes regular sized audio cassettes, double-time recording, inexpensive model
Disadvantages: Needs to be used close to sound-source, a bit bulky for some tastes

...I always wanted a dictaphone as a child. Largely, I admit, for slightly dubious reasons (i.e. I wanted to plant it in my big sister's bedroom and find out if she was talking about me.) Many years on, as a student, I finally received one as a birthday gift so that I could record important lectures. This certainly did come in handy during those classes that, however hard I tried to stay alert, had me head down and drooling on the desk within minutes. The Sony TCM-200DV Cassette-Corder (or 'dictaphone' to you and me) is a fairly basic model compared to some products on the market - but it does what it says on the tin and it does it to a perfectly acceptable standard. The machine is silver (with a charcoal grey back panel and battery compartment) and weighs in at 171g - it's roughly the same size as a cassette-playing personal stereo...

disneyeyes 02.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of Sony Cassette recorder

Who Remembers Good Old Cassettes???

Advantages: Very Strong
Disadvantages: Battery Life

...I have just been deciding what toy's are for the local charity shop and come across the Fisher Price Cassette player and showed it to my 3 year old he is busy playing with it now as I write. It originally belonged to my eldest who is now 13 and I bought it a good 7 years ago now but still as good as the day I bought it. I remember when my eldest was asking for this when we were out one day and I said lets see what Father Christmas brought him and of course it was the Cassette player. He used to love it recording and changing his voice and singing along to his favorite tapes. I know CD's are the way forward but for children they are not ideal tapes are much more sturdy. His favorite and now my 3 year olds favorite is the Robot voice changer really get's them in fits of giggles I have a giggling 3 year old in the corner at the moment...

bazzaoleary77 28.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Fisher-Price Tuff Stuff Tape Recorder with Voice Warp

Laptop the size of a VHS cassette

Advantages: Small, cheap, small, fanclub, small, upgradeable. Oh and its very small
Disadvantages: Slow and old, 2nd hand only, reliability a factor with age

...The Toshiba Libretto is a fantastic mini laptop from the late 90s. The word 'Libretto' come from Italian and translates directly as 'small book'. The Libretto is about the size of a VHS video cassette, this very small size makes working on a plane actually possible even in 'economy' class! HISTORY There are many models of Libretto, most not officially imported by Toshiba into the UK. I believe the first was the 1995 20CT which had an old 486 processor, the 30CT followed in 1996, but the first one to come to the UK was the 50CT in 1997. It featured a Pentium 75 MHz processor and 16Mb of RAM (Oooh I hear you say. NOT). I owned one of these for a while, during which time I skipped the 70CT (P120MMX) model, finally upgrading to the one I have now, the 100CT (P166MMX). The 110CT (233MMX) was the last one to be officially imported to...

peteshone 03.07.2005 (05.12.2005) · Read review
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Review of Toshiba Libretto Series

A cheap and cheerful solution lacking in quality

Advantages: An easy and very cheap solution
Disadvantages: Poor quality, poor sound quality, dated technology

...Since all of my music is now in MP3 format and contained on my I-Pod I wanted to be able to listen to my I-Pod in my car through the car speakers and not through headphones. There are fully integrated package solutions available, such as the Denison Ice, but these are very expensive to buy and require specialist installation adding to the expense. I also noted that this solution is permanent and does not allow it to be changed between cars, this in my opinion, is a major disadvantage. I remembered the in-car solutions for personal CD players that consisted of a cradle to hold the CD player, often made out of a bit of flexi steel with a platform on top of it and Velcro stuck to that. To get the CD playing through the car speakers there was a cassette tape with a wire attached that was plugged in to the CD player headphone socket...

yackers1 04.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Belkin Components Car cassette adapter Colour: White

The Very DAB

Advantages: Inexpensive, decent output for a bedroom or smaller room, mp3 capability
Disadvantages: No good for a larger room due to the 5 watt output per speaker

...her a DAB radio, hopefully with a CD player built in, and once again the internet was my friend as I did a little research on the subject. I discovered that I was going to struggle to find a decent boombox style DAB with CD player, and quickly realised that given the price and output level of some of the smaller DAB radios with CD players that I would actually get more bang for my buck if I bought a micro system. Eventually I decided to go with Sony?s CMT-EH45DAB system ? being attracted by the fact it was on offer in Comet and therefore available for the not too bad at all price of £79.99. The price has however now reverted back to £99.99. The Features This is a nicely compact little system and it has a DAB radio tuner, FM radio tuner, CD player and cassette player. You can also play your mp3 player through this...

rosebud2001 19.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony CMTEH45DAB DAB/FM Micro System with Cassette

Mmmmm, sopa de fideos *

Advantages: A good balance between the bare essentials and some wider, useful vocab
Disadvantages: the 'interactive' dialogues are useless, and waste precious minutes

...a whole <><> Although it's not the most swish or unique pack out there, I quite like the Berlitz approach to learning presented here. I think the phrase book and cassette complement each other well, as you can learn the basics at home and then take the book with you for a top-up while away, or to learn extra vocab you may need (if you need the phrase 'where can I find an English speaking Rabbi with a temple in a fortress' for example). The transcripts of the cassette dialogues are a definite bonus, and I like the sensible way the tape teaches you things you actually need to be able to say when holidaying abroad, unlike Mr Michael Thomas. I like the way you don't learn bad Spanish (by listening to 'students' on the tape make 'mistakes' and be corrected) and the lack of repetition on the cassette - it's only 90 mins long so they try to pack...

zoe_page 12.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Berlitz Spanish Cassette Pack

* Walk to the music *

Advantages: Available in grey and blue, listen to radio and tape, good quality sound
Disadvantages: The price in the online shops

...and give the listener comfort. There are two options with this, Normal or Limit. Normal is for when you don't want it and Limit is for turning it on. Then you have a green circle where your headphones plug into. Then there's another slide button above that, to have control if you listen to the FM radio or your tapes in Stereo or Mono sound. Then you have the tuning dial for the radio. With this dial, it's easy to pick up the exact radio station you want to listen to as when you move it, it only moves a fraction. Then above that there's the volume dial that of course regulates the volume. The volume on this walkman can go quite high so even people that are sitting next to you can even hear the song. On the right hand side, there's a small groove so you have open the cassette player easily. When you open it, it looks pretty much like...

galaxynicole 21.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Sony Cassette player