QFX
$37.99 Price may change
14 videosJ. Lewis
Returned the first one because the left side of the cassette door wouldn’t close all the way. The second one came exactly the same way. The recording feedback is noisy and muffled and the rewind function takes forever. My last try at recording and it ate my tape. Not a good quality product.
The Gaf
Pure trash. I wanted to love this SO MUCH. It has all of the features on paper, but the sound quality is bad in every way.
Terrible sound from speaker, Bluetooth AND headphones. Just so much hiss and squealing. Unusable. Sending it back.
Jaime Estuardo
No solo venía roto en varias partes del aparato, sino que al abrirlo para introducir un cassette, se desprendio la tapadera plástica, quise volver a ponerlo pero como es un mecanismo muy sencillo, se sigue desprendiendo. No me dan ganas ya ni de seguir probando todo lo demás. Un desperdicio de dinero.
cole howard
Showed up broken won't turn on and something is loose inside of it
CONNIE BOATFIELD
This was broken when I took out of the box
Al
Sound is iffy, depending on the volume. It’ll be complete static once i go close to the lower setting. Quality in general is pretty mediocre at best. Does what it is says and is a good size. I wouldn’t spend the amount I did on it again though.
Just Whelmed Buyer
TL;DR: product itself is good. Quality control is not.
Received a total of 8 units after 2 return transactions. Defect rate of 25%.
The product themselves work as intended. Cool retro vibe. Bought them for a cool bridal party wedding proposal idea.
random
This is a cool cheap item. The packaging was damaged. Nonetheless I kept it because it was so amazing. Looks and feels exactly like similar items sold in the 70s. It does everything they did and more. Imagine the unit acting like a blue tooth speaker. It will pair seamlessly with your iPhone and when you play songs on your phone they will play through the cassette recorder’s speaker. If you now engage the record mechanism with a tape in it: voila you are making a tape of what’s playing in your iPhone! You can also control forward, back and pause of your iPhone with tiny buttons on the unit. Just like a Bluetooth speaker. You can also play FM radio and record that. Who the heck listens to radio anymore? Regardless the FM radio gets amazingly good reception! No way of telling which station you are listening to. Allows an external mic 🎤 or a line in from your stereo. I would not hesitate to buy this just for fun. I’ll be interested to hear the quality of a tape made from Blue Tooth, and then played into a stereo through the line out. Will it be high fidelity? Will it have the tin AM radio type sound?: I do not know! Will be fun to play with. In any case buy without hesitation, and then get some blank tapes and 4 C cell batteries while you are at it. One thing it does not do is allow you to listen to it with a set of blue tooth headphones. You would have to use wired ones through the line out. How 70s! Have a blast!
Jay R
Box was clearly used and re-taped and beat up. Tape recorder does not function and some buttons barely move. Rip off. And it took weeks to ship 👎🏻
Tessa Stoeger
If you want to buy it to use where there isn't an outlet like I did DON'T. Batteries don't stay in to work so you have to use plug 😟
COPRESCU
Very low recording quality. The noise is almost at same level as the recording.
Yunes L
The cassette recorder functions excellently, with the FM radio and cassette deck working fine. The buttons also were easy to press and the stop/eject clears it. It has a great design and a microphone with pretty fine quality, overall this is just what I wanted! Also, make sure you know that the power light only turns on when you press play. Additionally, player works fine with Maxell 90 minute tapes.
RealtorAmy
Disappointing is the only word that fits. The tape unit has everything a user might want: USB, Bluetooth, internal mic, even a decent sounding FM radio receiver. The only thing missing is the ability to record tapes that are useable.
With Bluetooth connected and active but idle so far as sending data, there is not a sound coming from the built in speaker. And given that USB is digital, there should be none. But, set the unit to record that “silence” and then play it back, and you get far too much white noise. Record music and the level of background noise is high enough to make the tape unusable.
Complicating it further, though the computer’s sound volume is set to 75% of maximum, the volume of what’s recorded, when played in my car’s system is significantly quieter than it is when switched to the radio, or disk player (a JBL speaker system in an older Toyota Avalon). That is not true when playing a tape created on some other system.
In fact, with some of the tapes I recorded you can hear speech in the background that obviously is bleed-over from the unit’s FM system, which was been switched off when the recording was made. And, in the background of a tape that recorded only silence is a rhythmic thud.
And if that weren’t enough, the unit ate two of my tapes, which were pulled behind the transport drive and crumpled.
It’s a nice unit, and I want to like it. But somewhere in the chain, someone screwed up.
D. Richards
POWER LIGHT WILL NOT BE LIT IN TAPE MODE UNTIL YOU PRESS RECORD/PLAY, etc. Recording voice? Slide button on side to 'Tape', press 'Rec/Play', speak, 'Rew' and 'Play'. I almost gave up and returned it-- so glad I didn't. AWESOME SOUND QUALITY AND OVERALL PRODUCT! My mom bought it for my son and he's recording stories on it. He loves it! Retro goodness. 😊❤️
anthony t. wright
This is a decent, portable tape recorder with microphone. The playback speaker is a little tiny but after years of digital playback sounds you get a little choosy. The control buttons are made of very flimsy plastic not what I would expect. My memory tells me that similar items purchased during the 70s had a lot sturdier plastic buttons. This tape deck is very nice for the price.
Zak Parrish
Buttons broke on first use. Had it for 2 minutes and it's a doorstop. Avoid.
Josh
I was very excited as soon as I got this today. I put in a tape and hit play and I heard that horrible noise. It IMMEDIATELY ate my tape up! Very annoyed.
villana santoyo
About 6 or 9 months after I bought it, the wire connector didn’t work, and the only way to get it running was to bend it. But it broke the whole adapter/connector. Also, the batteries don’t work for me, but I think it’s only because they aren’t alkaline.
Austin Schaak
It's actually really good! It features a good amount of stuff. The bluetooth works nicely too. The overall sound quality is nice. Additionally, it's quite rigid, and it is overall very good for the money.
L. Sanchez
I've been using this thing for awhile now and my only gripe would be that it plays a little faster than usual, but I've used it for hours and hours on a road trip and it didn't eat any of my newer or older tapes, plus the playing speed begins to normalize as the c batteries begin to go flat. Don't expect for this to play normally using the power adapter though, that one will run it faster no matter what
Kimber miller
It ate the first two tapes I tried. Put in a brand new tape ate that one also. The buttons are wonky and sit offset when pressed - disappointing
Elijah
Jonatan
For about 35 dollars its what you'd expect for the quality.As you can hear the sound isn't exactly top tier but its acceptable.As someone trying to get into cassette tapes this retro shoe box recorder is something I would recommend for beginners before buying a real vintage recorder or a cassette deck
Laurie Freitag
It takes C batteries but I can’t get them to fit. Not happy.
Kobe Hawkins
I guess you get what you pay for
this thing destroys tapes
very disappointed
Sharon
The universe tried to do me a favor by losing the first order. I just had to submit a replacement order. The "Stop/Eject" acts like the "Play" button and to eject a tape you have to press the "Play" and "Rec" buttons at the same time. Extremely disappointing.
N
i wanted to record my favorite albums for fun and i didnt expect much because i knew i wasnt paying for a fancy tape deck but i adore it and the charming imperfections of the analog effect. here’s an example of something i recorded using an aux cable and my laptop.
Wes
It does its job, and it does it well. Haven't tested out the USB functionality yet, but I don't think I'll be using it much anyways. It plays tapes well, It records tapes well, and while the internal microphone isn't the best thing in the world, you can understand speech in it Just fine, the compacts cassetes original functionality.
Jeremy Hall
Was fine for a little while then all of a sudden stopped working. Very cheap.
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