QFX RETRO-39 Portable Shoebox USB to Cassette Tape Recorder, Analog Cassette Tape Deck with Built-in Microphone, 3.5" Bluetooth Speaker with FM Radio

It has the best sound quality ever! You can record Bluetooth to cassette, which made me be able to make a mixtape from songs online. I love all the great features it has, and it is the best tape recorder ever.

I'm old and I got a desire to play a cassette tape that I had, and after looking around I settled on this. I really like it. I like the ka-chunk buttons, the styling, and I really like the heft of it when it's full of C batteries. The speaker is small but I like it too. It's nostalgia overload for folks of a certain age.One thing to be warned about, it's not designed for recording mix tapes and things from the external line in. The record function only works through the integrated microphone, so the record function is really for recording dictation and the like, as the old versions were. You will need to acquire a tape deck that can record from a line in in order to make your own mix tapes. But as a player with line out, bluetooth, and USB support, it's a surprising amount of modern stuff built into an adorable package. If QFX made a modern retro tape deck that could record from an external source, I'd have bought that too!

I purchased this to use with some other music production equipment and wanted to record some sounds from phone to tape loop cassettes and add a lo-fi background sound. I've tried via the line in connection, through Bluetooth and via the built in microphone. Every try results in a horrible hissing white noise sound and the recorded audio is drowned out by this noise. I've tried multiple Cassettes and every one has the same result. I've also tried from pc and tablet and also tried recording from a mixer and directly from instruments. It's all garbage. If you're looking to record anything on this "recorder" it will not work. Also, when ejecting my first cassette, the door shattered. The buttons are super flimsy and probably won't last long. It's pretty much unusable for what I was wanting to do. If you have a pre-recorded cassette it might sound fine but if you're looking to do ANY recording on your own avoid this unit at all costs. It's a shame that Amazon allows such horrible products to be sold on its site.

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.

This is a cool cheap item. The packaging was damaged. I wish Amazon would put it in an outer box. 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!

Once you get it to work, it's a nifty cassette player, with good, better than expected, sound. The problem is to get it to work. There are 2 problems, and once you solve them, the device will work fine.(1) Battery compartment: it's almost impossible to get 4 batteries to fit into it. And when you do get them in, the cover won't fit over the batteries. The solution is, spend a lot of time jiggling them around and pressing here and there until you get them to stay in. As for the cover, just throw it out. It won't fit. tape the top layers of batteries in, which will hold the bottom layer in place.(2) No sound came out. Simple solution: the selector switch says, basically, on and off (in fancier language). It won't play with either setting. But there is a MIDWAY sweet spot BETWEEN these two settings, and then the player works perfectly.Too bad such a nice tape player causes such frustration due to a poorly designed batterly compartment and poorly labeled on/off switch.

Exactly as advertised. Straightforward operating cassette player/recorder

I think the recorder is nice.