Jensen Portable Compact Lightweight Slim Design Stereo AM/FM Radio Cassette Player

I gave this five stars as it is the only inexpensive unit I found with a "Line Out" jack in addition to a headphone jack, not because it sounds great. The others have only "Headphone Out" jacks. For connection to powered speakers, a home stereo unit, or for mp3 conversion, etc., on a PC, "Line Out" is superior to "Headphone Out" since line out is a straight unaltered signal. The "Headphone Out" is affected by the amplification/volume control to run headphones and adds extra noise to the signal and potential distortion and coloration. Although let's face it, these aren't high enough quality units to probably make much difference if you know what you're doing. Cassette players aren't what they used to be, and all these different brands are exactly the same things made by one manufacturer marketed under different names with different external appearances. Fortunately, I have an old Teac deck for my higher quality cassettes. I bought two of these Jensens to convert my massive "home-made" cassette collection to .wav files on my PCs using a couple of DigitNow! USB audio capture devices and free Audicity software for later conversion to CD or mp3. They work fine with the "Line Out" jack. The quality of the Jensen to .wav file is perfectly acceptable. One caveat is that there is no rewind button on the Jensen, only fast forward. That is something of a pain in the a** since you have to flip the tape over to rewind it using fast forward, but for the most part, I'll live with that since it has a "Line Out" jack. I'll use my other machines to FF/REW the tapes to discover what's on them.

Excelente walkman por el precio. Resulta funcional y útil. Lo que más me gustó, es que está correctamente alineado el cabezal de lectura y reproduce cualquier cassette con un excelente sonido estéreo, aunque la radio FM sólo es mono pero tiene buena recepción y sonido. El AM también excelente. Les recomiendo usar audífonos buenos, mejor si son de estudio, para captar bien las bondades de este producto. Lo único que no me gustó, es que no tiene botón para regresar la cinta, pero me conformo.

Great for when you dont want to splurge and buy an authentic walkman

SOY LA ENVIDIA!!! gracias por este producto retro,me lo quieren comprar, jaja, lo disfruto al mil, gracias de nuevacuenta amazon y al vendedor, solo calidad, en amazon.

Very disappointed. It broke the moment I put a tape in it. I had to return it and now I am trying another one.