sound ok, mechanics poor First I'll say I bought this for playing MP3's in the car, and it works well enough, adn I'm happy with it. The sound is reasonable to good* for this kind of device. However, it doesn't work (mechanically) in my hi-fi cassette deck in the house. I think it's because it turns too stiffly, and the deck hasn't the welly to drive it. The result is that it stops playing before it even starts. The cord-tidy mechanism is very useful, the reason I chose this model. I wanted the wires well out of the way of the... more info
This is awful I bought this because of other reviewers and though it would be OK. How wrong I was, the sound is awful. Firstly my tape player only plays it for a few seconds before stating there's a tape error. The sound quality is really really bad, it's not even bare able for the few seconds it plays. Don't buy this one! trust me spend your money on a Sony or Maxwell they are much better although a little more expensive.
Not worthy of all the good reviews on here I recently purchsed this item as a replacement for my Sony CPA-9 Adaptor, which after 3 years of solid use finally died as the wires snapped because they had been wrapped around the tape one too many times - the easiest way to store it. The Sony wasn't perfect so I thought I'd see what alternatives there were and stumbled across this. After reading the mostly positive reviews and with a little hesitation I decided that for how much it would cost me it was worth trying it. Having used this for 2 weeks... more info
Better than you'd imagine, but not that durable I was admittedly dubious this would work well, but I was very happy with the quality of the sound - as good as a real cassette would have been, frankly. So, in terms of bang for your buck, excellent. The only thing that loses a star will be the fact it broke after about 4 months wear and tear. But, at the price, that's acceptable and I'll be buying a replacement for the next four months!
