GraciosoPortable Cassette Player Recorder with Bluetooth Transmitter, AM FM Cassette Player with Headphone Jack & Big Speaker,Microphone Jack, 2*AA Battery Opearated Cassette Tape Player

This cassette player does everything one could ask for from such a modern device. It plays my old tapes well, can record, and gets AM and FM radio stations well. It also has a very handy Bluetooth feature that I haven't seen on any other cassette player, and it can connect to my Bluetooth headphones well for wireless listening. When I first ordered this item, it played my cassettes slowly, but after contacting customer service at Gracioso I was quickly given a refund and sent a new unit that works perfectly. The customer service representative, Ivy, was very kind and helpful, so I can recommend their product with a guarantee of 100% satisfaction. If you want to listen to cassette tapes on the go, buy this unit!

Was very anxious and spent a day looking at options and landed on this one. Pretty much what you pay for. But, honestly, I would really payed the double price if they made proper device that "would do it all".Bought to specifically record to tape, listen and (if possible) record back from tape to digital.Have a lot of quirks to work around with, but my first impressions are pretty alright for the purposePROS:1) Records to tape from radio/microphone and even if you stick 3.5 jack from your phone (you will need male-male 3.5mm jack cable for this). With blank tapes you can open any music/playlist on laptop and record your own "mixtape", great stuff.(You can even do this on the smartphone, at least on android, but quality really depends on your phone. My basic One Plus Nord N30 recorded much worse than gaming laptop for example. But really it means you do this anywhere). Watch out with volume levels on the device, you have to fiddle with it to find right balance: if volume is too low it's gonna be noisy, if too much it's gonna be overblown (db-boosted clipping and scratchy). I can't yet make it record to PC or phone from the tape without any additional stuff.2) Good reception for FM radio3) Overall decent build quality, could be better, could be worse.4) Didn't had any expectation for speaker, but considering the price range and size I didn't hate it.CONS:1) (Biggest one for me) Could really use timer or any kind of display to see precise time left/played on a tape. Not a deal breaker, but gonna nag all the time.2) For listening you have to use batteries or to PC. Connecting to wall plug introduces very noticeable noise to speaker/headphones on playback and recording.3) Couldn't test BT connectivity, but in terms of PC/Phone it does not even show up in device list.4) No auto-stop, if you forget it on REW/FWD then it's gonna drain your battery. Gonna keep an eye if it affects tape in a long run.5) In-built mic works alright, but catch noises of internal mechanisms. External mic pretty much a must if you plan use it for voice recordings.I really consider it mostly 3.5/5 than 4, due to much of unrealized potential in this. Amazon is full of different players/recorders with samey price (~30$) and features, but next price range is 200$+ and nothing in between. I would give 100$ with same features, little bit better quality and feature set. Only exception I've seen on amazon is FiiO 'Hi-Fi' cassette player for 100$, but it only plays and that's it.

Thank you very much for making this cassette player. It is so awesome. Easy to connect to Bluetooth. Good quality. Most of the cassette player and now broken down. The radio quality was very great. Very good price. But I wish it can be a recharge batteries built-in. But overall is still great. Feeling of nostalgia going back when I was growing up.. thank you so much

Such great advertising for the product I thought I couldn’t go wrong. WRONG.I need to hear perfectly the language learning tapes I have. The tapes play, but the volume of the player just isn’t there. At the same time holding up to my ear the sound is Bass heavy and I can’t make out the suttle pronunciations. The unit has no treble control to compensate. Next, there is heavy background white noise which follows the volume level so you never get the noise distraction away from you. There is also a variable interference buzz that changes depending how you rotate the player. I even walked away from the house into the street and the buzz never goes away.I tried the same language tape in a home player. It was perfect. So nobody can blame the professionally produced tape.My goal was to Bluetooth play in my car on the way to work. After 2 hours in my Tesla I just couldn’t get it to pair. I could get a pairing with my Aftershok headphones except the quality there matched the unacceptable speaker quality. My expensive Apple noise canceling earbuds would not pair either.Now I thought I would try the included earphone. Terrible quality there also.Other things I didn’t like are when rewinding a tape you would let the unit run until end of tape and most units shutoff at the end. But here the button remains down, eats battery, until you physically disengage with the off button. By the way, the rewind and FFW speed seems painfully slow.Yes, used new Duracell batteries. I tried the additional power chord and that did not give more power or make better the deficiencies I listed here.The AM/FM radio seemed ok but you really can’t hear anything decently unless the unit is held up to your ear.Anyway… sending this back as it is a $40 disgrace of time and money.

It fuctions well and the duel aspect of it being a radio as well was pretty neat. I also used it to make my mom feel old and I found it funny. 5 stars!

Back in the day, all walkman that recorded needed to push play and record at the same time to record. This one starts recording on pushing record button. The traditional method protected you for mistakenly overwrite you tape. The record button is next to the play button. You have to be careful not to press the wrong button if you don't want to ruin you custom mix tape.Regarding audio quality, I would say it's just OK nothing remarkable or outstanding.The build feels a bit flaky, thrending to the chip.The recording quality is not the greatest, though it depends on the tape you put in. So I'll give them some space there since I didn't used a very good tape.Overall it plays casettes just ok, records just ok. Build quality, naaah.The record button issue is a bad design.

Very good item,works great.