Jensen CR-100 Retro Portable AM/FM Radio Personal Cassette Player Compact Lightweight Design Stereo AM/FM Radio Cassette Player/Recorder & Built in Speaker (Black Series)

I did a lot of research and read a lot of reviews before settling on the Jensen cassette player/recorder. I'm glad I bought it! It has a nice, old-school feel to it. It fits comfortably in the hand and is nice and solid. The radio works really well, and the sound nice and clear. The speakers are surprisingly good for such a small device. As for recording, I'm using it to jot down story ideas, and the sound quality is pretty decent. I can't really address whether background noise is excessive since I'm using it in the car while I'm driving, and between the engine and the sounds of traffic, there's plenty of background noise already. But it works well enough for what I need it for.

Simply incredible! Highly recommend grabbing one for such a great price before these disappear from the market.

I got this maybe a year ago 1. it's a pretty good cassette player but right off the bat I was disappointed that it didn't have a clip on the back 2. I didn't notice it before (which is good) but after using a different cassette player with the same tape I noticed the (POT) to control motor was set too low, so it plays and records slow. 3. probably my biggest disappointment was that it couldn't really record the radio too well, I also wish the tuner dial was a big slower. besides those things I've had no problems with it the recording level on it without a 3.5mm mic sounds honestly great and captures the bass better than a line in. it's actually a pretty good cassette player and i hope they improve it, I would buy another one if so also I hope they come out with a 90's/2000's sports style one, I would spend an extra $10 to $20 for one of those.

Works Great Nice Radio

The person I bought it for. Absolutes the radio. Wants another one

I don't just throw around strong words like "junk" haphazardly. But seriously, this is junk. it is plastic molded into the shape of useless junk. I am baffled by the 4 star average on the reviews! I promise you that if after reading this review you still go ahead and buy this, you will definitely remember what I've written here. What's the phrase? Mark My Words. Yeah that's the phrase. Ok - So what's wrong with it? Well, there were 3 things I wanted out of this device. I wanted it to play cassette tapes in stereo (not mono like it's 1967). I wanted to be able to quickly record music ideas onto a cassette. And I wanted to be able to play FM radio. How did it do on those? Fail. All 3. Big time. First of all it's not stereo. If you want to listen to all your tapes in mono, if you want to pretend that you bought this in the 1960's, then buy this. I want to listen to my stereo cassettes in stereo, thank you very much. I mean, it's 2021! Also, the built in microphone is a joke. I was speaking into it from about 12 inches and it couldn't pick it up. There is a mic input, but why would you need to use that when it is advertised as having a built in mic? FM radio? I was expecting a built-in mic. They built SOMETHING into it, but it's not a real microphone. Nope. And lastly, the only way to receive any FM stations is if I hold onto the antenna. As soon as I let go of the antenna the station disappears. And when I say "The Station" I mean THE one and only station that it would pick up. And that station plays music I don't like -- even if I DID want to spend my time holding onto the antenna like an idiot. It's junk. I wouldn't want it even if it were free. And if you look closely, this exact type of cassette player is sold under many other names on Amazon. Right now, I don't see any small Walkman -type player out there that is quality. And so what I've done is I searched Sony Walkman on Amazon and I bought a used SONY Walkman, and chances are it will work just fine. Or it will eat my tapes. I guess I'll have to just wait and see. I wonder why no one wants to manufacture a GOOD portable cassette player/recorder because by reading all these RECENT reviews it still appears to be a very popular item. I have a dozen or more cassette "Mix" tapes that I made back around 1990 and I want to play them in the car because they are the perfect mix of songs and there is nothing wrong with the cassettes. All I need is a small player and a audio cable to go from the speaker jack on the cassettes player to the AUX on my car stereo. Car STEREO. Yep my car stereo plays STEREO! HEll, I think my father's 1970 Datsun had stereo. Anyway, whatever you do, don't buy this. It's junk.

Good sound for the price point. Radio reception was also surprising.

I was so hoping that this would work well but I was disappointed. It recorded very low even when I was right over the mic and to make it worse it recorded the sound of it recording my voice. So all I could hear was my voice very low but it was muffled by the machines own recording sound.

Très satisfaite du son et bon rapport qualité-prix

Muy buena elección y excelente compra

The radio is good, but the tape recoder does not work properly, not as good as the Japanese quality I will not buy again this product

Tape player is mono and not stereo as mentioned. There is a weird phasing issue in the sound as well.

Llego en tiempo y forma, el material se siente débil, falla en la velocidad del reproductor de casette y lo use poco, el radio según lo esperado