Walkman Auto Reverse ＆Clear Stereo Cassette Player,Built-in Cool Copper Wheel Movement＆Earphone,Cassette Tape to MP3 Converter with Tape Converter Software,Powered by USB Power Cord or AA Battery

I used this with my 35 year old cassettes and worked like a charm. Easy to use. Look and feel like the age old walk man. Auto reverse function and speaker connectivity (via aux cable) worked seamlessly! For one cassette there was a bit of lag, but realized because some dirt from old cassette got into the reading head. Once i cleaned it worked great! Sound quality was extremely nostalgic like my walkman from 90’s.

Stereo Cassette Player JL-101. Reviewed 02 October 2024. A good player with some minor issues that were easily fixed . I'm happy with this overall after considering that it's a cheaply made modern cassette player. I bought this cassette player for daily listening to tapes and to compare how this performs against the Arsvita walkman and my vintage AIWA walkmans. I did not buy this for converting tapes to MP3 files , so I've not yet tested the USB capture function. I was curious to try this cassette player as it seems to be one of the few modern walkmans currently available that does have a Stereo tape head which enables proper sounding Stereo playback. I bought the transparent plastic model and my experience has been that straight out out of the box, this unit looks great but the sound quality was not good, playback was too fast and the audio quality & volume was very low with a high amount of hiss. After comparing this to my other walkmans , I noticed that the tape head was not going down all the way towards the tape while the play button was engaged, which resulted in low volume and poor sound quality. There was also very high wow & flutter while the cassette player was stationary . When walking around or just picking up the cassette player while playing a tape, the playback quality was worse as it was very unstable and the wow & flutter was very bad. I then noticed the sound improved when holding down the Play button and pressing it down even further. I was able to fix all of the volume, stability and wow & flutter problems by adjusting the azimuth screws and this was easy to do while a tape is playing at same time because the tape player door opens all the way , giving you full access to the azimuth adjustment screws. I'm happy I was able to manually tweak this setting & find that sweet spot where the playback sounded very good but it was a fiddly process that took time to figure out and I'd prefer not needing to do this especially as it's a brand new item. Also the the tape speed adjustment screw is located at the back of the unit just above the batteries and is also easily accessible and can be adjusted while playing a tape. Now my tape player sounds great! I've now listened to many tapes and they're all crisp,clear and loud. The stereo tape head is good and it's noticeable that playback is definitely in stereo. The Auto Reverse function works well, no issues with pressing the Direction button during playback. And the auto reverse enable/disable button also works well. The F.F, REW & STOP buttons are very small, stiff and not ergonomic, I'd prefer that these buttons were more comfortable to use and were softer and not snap back as strong or as loudly as they do after pressing Stop. The PLAY button is a weird design that sits inside the cassette player shell , it feels weak when compared to the other buttons.The plastic outer shell is quite thin where the Play button sits and you can actually see the plastic shell bend and flex when you press down the button.I'd prefer they use just a normal style hard Play button that sits on top of the outer shell. You can hear motor hum and hiss when there's quiet moments in a song or dead air when the song ends but it's very minimal and you definitely won't notice this while music is playing. PROS: It's a Stereo cassette player , the Stereo tape head seems good quality. Metal Fly Wheels. Auto Reverse. Tapes do sound good in this . Works with 2x AA batteries or with the USB cable included & also has a DC 3V 500mh power input socket. Nice design with rounded corners , a small & compact player that's not much larger than a Cassette Tape & easily fits in your pocket, it looks cool. The Transparent plastic model looks good & lets you to see all the moving parts. CONS: Not sounding good out of the box, (Azimuth & Tape Speed needing to be adjusted) Build Quality is not strong ( cheap feeling & bending bending plastic when pressing the Play button) No Auto Stop on F.F or REW. No Radio function. You can hear a bit of motor hum and hiss when music is not playing. The price could be better for what it is. Overall I am happy with this.

My first had a very strange defect, unfortunate as otherwise it sounds OK, wow and flutter is acceptable, fidelity is reasonable for a mini-cassette although I haven't tested it much due to the defect. I'll try to explain as simple as possible. I have contacted the company about this. When I play a tape in the expected direction-tape from left to right-it only plays one side of the stereo channel, so obviously defective. Here is the strange part- switching to reverse direction-it plays both channels perfectly-but now I am watching the tape going backwards, and as if it is upside down, as if i flipped it to play the other side! I've had alot of tape equipment in my lifetime, but this one has me stumped. I also noticed, once or twice right out of the box new, an odd defect in the mechanism, as if something is not meshing and it skips the tape makes the "thumping" sound I've read about elsewhere. if the manufacturer gets back to me and describes (f there is) a fix to this, or will send me another non-defective one, I will up my review. for now, no. I can only guess that somehow the tapehead itself is wired incorrectly, or just a bad solder connection, as this is advertised a 4-track tape head-stereo tracks in either direction. Update-the seller is working with me and is willing to send me a replacement. I will take a chance a 2nd one will function properly. This is a very good reasonably well-made player and sounds very good-low wow and flutter-if it is truly designed to play stereo in both directions, this is a feature not available on too many of these compact cassette players as this is a true 4-track tapehead-and it is, i can see by the construction and wiring. Adding to this already lengthy review, the seller has been right with me on this and very quickly, thank you. I was correct in assessing the 1st player as defective in the one track, as the seller promptly sent me a replacement which is working as I expected it to. With a good working unit to test, I am very pleased. Stereo separation on this is surprisingly good. Audio quality is on par with my more professional decks which is also a pleasant surprise. Switches direction without a hitch, quality of audio is equal in both directions-again shows good head alignment out of the box. One other impressive part to this design-the belt mechanism. I have replaced belts on older Walkmans and full-sized decks, not easy as most use 2 belts, some even a 3rd for a physical tape counter. This uses only one for all functions, and if it breaks, there it is right under your nose! Somebody put some thought into this, and it has very little wow and flutter, measurable but not much. Only the better older Walkman style units had reverse and fast-forward as this one does and it works pretty well. Not as fast as my big decks but not bad. Overall, and especially if they keep the price down, this is the one to get IMO. Would have preferred a metal shell, but this is pretty rigid for a plastic case. Has a very nice velour protective pouch but I'll be keeping this in a small hard-shell case at is a bit fragile. As always time will tell, but so far I have been very pleased with this one. Physical design, mechanical design, sound quality-stick some good headphones in this, makes quite a difference.

We finally needed to replace our vintage Sony Walkman cassette tape player. In the intervening years USB became a thing. A few weeks ago my wife deposited a group of cassette tapes on my desk to add to our local Apple Music library. After trying to use a normal USB-C to USB-C cable with no success in order to load the music onto my MacBook Pro—USB-C only ports—I discovered that the supplied USB-C to USB-A is specifically for transmitting audio data (didn’t know that was a thing). Anyway, connecting with the supplied USB-C to -A cable to our iMac desktop’s USB-A port worked well with tape player providing a good signal. I did find that the volume on the tape player needs to be turned up even though this is a line source. Anyway, I’ve transferred five tapes with very acceptable results. The limitation is the audio quality of the 30-odd year old tapes and tape players reliance on AA batteries. The player supports a 3v power supply, but none is provided. My four-star rating thus is for the absence of a three-volt power supply to 1) even out the power for better playback and 2) simply to get away from relying on batteries. Without Radio Shacks around anymore, it’s not easy to find such a power supply.

Overall this isn't a bad little machine. It sounds ok, is conveniently-sized, and is kind of cool to look at since you can see the entire tape inside while using it. If you're looking for a basic, simple solution, this might work for you. Ultimately, however, I ended up returning it. The first problem for me was the reverse feature. First off, it does not function as advertised. Both the listing and the device instructions say you can turn this feature off entirely, but you cannot--the most you can do is switch between reverse only once, or reverse continuously. Second, the reverse button is inconveniently placed and has a hair trigger. I found myself constantly bopping it whenever I handled the device. You also can't correct an accidental press by just pressing it again. You have to stop the tape first. Second (and this should probably be expected), this device just doesn't have the quality of a vintage player. It ran modern tapes okay (things from Bandcamp, Etsy, etc), but it couldn't handle vintage tapes. I tried three such tapes from the 80s and 90s, all of which came out warbly. (And no, these were not all tapes I found in my mother's attic thirty years later. They all came from different sources in different storage situations.) I tried playing with the azimuth screws and the speed potentiometer (both easy to access on this machine, that's a plus) to no avail. All three tapes meanwhile play just fine in my vintage Sony walkman, and in my modern boombox, which I bought new off of Amazon just a few months ago. So the problem definitely was not the tapes. I can't speak to the tape to MP3 recording function as I had no need of that, but I get the impression this device was designed more to show off that feature than as a dedicated music player. It's affordable, quaint, and neat looking, so get it if you're only planning to play newly-recorded tapes and don't plan to pick it up much. Otherwise hold out for a vintage machine.

Regardless of what others say, This player Plays great very steady, seems durable, and a great value, may need some break in time for wow and flutter, but works great. I simply just put a drop of machine oil on all moving parts avoiding the belt and pinch rollers. Does appear to be the traditional Tanashin Knock off but works pretty good. Does not have full auto stop though, and volume could be louder.