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Review on 🎧 Sony Walkman Digital Tuning Weather FM/AM Stereo Cassette Player - Silver (Discontinued) - Improved SEO by Ben Demers

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Cassette players are an endangered species

Portable cassette players are an endangered species. They're hard to find now and most of them don't have a rewind button (why?) . That's why I relied on this Sony Walkman as it's the only player so far with a rewind button, which I think is essential. I use it to listen to books on cassette. Cassette players are smaller and easier to carry than portable CD players. Since I only use it to listen to audio books, I've never listened to the radio or the weather channel with it, so I can't comment on these features. Since I don't use these features, the device is more expensive, than I want to pay for a plain old cassette player. But it's the only one I could find with a rewind button that you don't have to pay crazy money for, and so I have to accept other features that I don't even use. This is my fourth Walkman of this type. The previous ones ended up with either a dead battery compartment or the wheels that turned the cassette stopped working, either spinning too fast or too slow making the spoken word on the cassettes unintelligible. The battery compartment is very poorly designed and cheaply made; The battery contact is located directly on the door. So if it breaks or even comes loose, the device will not hold the battery. The case breaks very easily. The advantage is that it only uses one AA battery. I only give this player an average rating; I just have no choice but to take this if I want something that plays cassettes,

Pros
  • Up to 35 hours of playback on a single AA battery
Cons
  • boring packaging