Review on 📻 Crosley CT100B-SI: Retro Portable Cassette Player with Bluetooth, AM/FM Radio, and Built-in Microphone – Silver by Christine Gauthier

DEFECTIVE. If you listen to AM/WM radio, stay away from this thing. It has more internal (DSP) noise than any radio I've ever held in my hands. Even with fairly strong stations. works as it should, but when you press the << or >> button, the title is not played, but simply jumped to the previous or next title. However, it "remembers" where you left off, so it resumes from there instead of looping back to the beginning of the track. FM is just as good as any other DSP radio (yes, of course it's a DSP, not true analogue). The SW areas are pretty much useless (but I'm sure you'd expect that from something like this). The tape recorder is the same deck that's in everything today (same mechanism). Not great, but it works. Of course there is nothing stereo. Mono head, mono circuit, mono all. You don't want to record tapes on this thing for anything other than playback on it. The chip recorder is exclusively MP3 @128 mono. If you're looking for a hidden band to digit or digit to band this device isn't for you (but I'm sure you knew that), I'll hack it to see if the AM coil leads are in a bad place are , or if I can do something with all the noise, but even if it is; nothing should sell so badly. I knew it was a toy so wasn't expecting much, but AM/MW being so bad is unforgivable. even just for toys.