Customer Reviews

Casio AS307RB Personal Cassette Player

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I'm supposed to walk a lot for health reasons; I decided to start getting books on tape to pass the time while I "stroll" so I needed a basic cassette player. I didn't need all the fancy stuff, just a basic unit with auto-reverse. I checked many offline and online stores and this unit seemed to have all the right features and a good price. I have been pleased with its performance. It is light, buttons are well-placed, headphones are comfortable and clear. All-in-all, a terrific value.

There are 3 things to say about this device: 1. It works just fine. 2. It is incredibly easy to procure thru one-click from Amazon.com. 3. The price is right.

P.S. I am not an employee or stockholder of Amazon.com!

On the cover of the packaging for this item is a skateboarding kid attempting a 360 aerial maneuver. Good thing he doesn't have this cassette player clipped to his cut-offs and the headphones strapped to his head, or the outcome would be seriously in doubt. But since there's no built-in speaker with the unit, the only possible use I can see for it is to motivate aerobic activity--jogging if not skateboarding. Problem is, it's fairly bulky and is closer to a full than the advertised half pound.

I got the item on a Friday Sale, so the cost of returning it would be close to my original outlay. I'll probably just keep it and use it for walking the cat. Or when I get time, I'll sell it on the internet at cost so someone gets some use out of it. And to be fair to the Casio people, who generally offer a lot of product (in this case, too much) for the money, I see that their model has smaller dimensions than comparable machines from Phillips and Panasonic.

The button to flip to the other side is too easy to tap inadvertently. I use the cassette player for language learning tapes while jogging and find this button to be a problem. I'm sure there are problems with all tape players but this one is rather annoying. Other than that the player has been quite good. The sound is especially good considering the importance of nuances needed in language learning. I'm sure acid rock sounds great!

The auto-reverse gets jammed on mine. I stick in a tape, and in the middle of the tape, the player auto-reverses back and forth, back and forth for no reason. Other than that, I guess it works fine. But of course, the only reason to buy this is for the auto-reverse, which doesn't work.

Bad product- stay away from- tape buttons don't work-put a tape in for the first time and it fast forwarded, stop button did not work and play did not work, could not get tape to stop- had to take batteries out to get my tape back. I had to send back. If I could have given this a negative star rating, it would have gotten 5 NEGATIVE stars.