Thursday, 7 April 2011
Waste Of Time And Money - radio
My son falls asleep to cassette recordings from his grandmother.
Well, my ex-wife took his cassette player to her new house and I had to go out and buy one. The only cassette player in the store was Coby. It worked fine for the first two days, then began eating tapes. I couldn't get the tapes untangled and they kept breaking. I finally gave up and figured out how to record the tapes to CD and threw away this piece of junk from Coby. I also had a Coby DVD player as a free giveaway promotion. That device lastest exactly one day. It too had to be junked.
Coby is absolutely the worst manufacturer of any product that I've ever encountered. I really wish Amazon would let us give zero stars. They forced me to choose one. Coby Portable AM/FM Cassette Player and Recorder CX244, Silver/Blue
Bought this unit as a Christmas gift for my adult brother mainly for the cassette unit. The first two attempts to play prerecorded tapes resulted in both of them being destroyed. The only distinction this unit has is to be the first Christmas gift to be discarded!
My bro gave this to my mom as all her oldies are on cassette. It worked for about 5 months or so. I don't recall exactly how many months, but not even a year. It started chewing the tapes. I am technical and tried to see if the rubber was out of alignement etc. I messed with it, and it still continues to eat the tapes. I'm going with a known brand this time thus I'm hear searching for another one, and definetely want to give Coby potential customers the real heads up.
I just needed a cassette player because the new vehicle I just purchased only had a cd player in it, and I have many cassette tapes that I used in my old vehicle. I have a long drive to work, and often listen to books on tape. I thought this would be a good way to still be able to listen to them. It works fine and the sound is very good, and you can't beat the price. NOTE: In amazaon's product description, it says that the unit takes 4 "D" batteries, it actually takes "5".
I received this cassette player and it chopped clean the tape in the cassettes. This pile of tapes hadn't been listened to for a long time so I thought it was my old player. But then it ate a couple including one of my favorites. The player it was supposed to replace was a $15 player that worked for years. Boycott them.
The radio is easy to use! The sound is great and loud for its size. Excellent for hearing tapes of all kinds. One thing that I'm not to happy about is the lack of a LED light for the FM stereo.Great buy, and with dual voltage you can travel world wide!
This is by far the very worst excuse for a cassette recorder. I tried using it to record some guitar chords and all I got was a constant humming during the playback completely distorting the music.
The radio plays fine but if you want to do some recording using the "MIC" please think again. It is a complete waste of money. I wish I could eturn it but it will be too costly. It may make better economic sense to purchase some other brand that can do the job. Sorry folks but my rating is Zero for this product
Got this as a gift for someone of an older generation who have not transitioned to CD players yet. The negatives of it are pretty much what every one-star review have stated: terrible cassette player, eats tapes, poor volume control, eject button malfunctioning. If there's a plus to it, it's that the radio actually works.
If all you want is a radio/tape player this might suffice, as long as you don't want very precise volume control. If you want to record from an outside source, buy something else. The slide controls for volume, function and band selection ate sloppy and the tape recorder buttons fell out the first time I tried to use the recorder. This product is a total waste of money! - Radio'
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