Customer Reviews

JWIN JXR16 Voice-Activated Micro Cassette Recorder

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Awkward clunky controls make this a poor choice for someone who wants to use the product regularly. The VAS and general recording is also clunky, because it takes two seconds for the first sounds to get recorded. You need to take a deep breath after you push RECORD and then stay the same distance from the microphone, or else you'll get a choppy recording. Worse still, the unit MAY NOT RECORD if the case is not closed in a certain way. It looks like it's recording, but then doesn't record. What is the point of a tape recorder if you can't trust it?

I finally got sick of the thing and bought a Sony M-470. It was a few $ more but well worth it. My favorite all-time recorder was my old Panasonic RN-305, but after 5 years of continuous use, it broke. Luckily, the Sony is almost as good.

This item is used to record lectures and is working very well. I'm able to review the material covered much easier as note taking was not nearly fast enough.

it records but not by voice activation and there are no instructions for trouble shooting. Okay if all you want is a small recorder.

I have fifty or more micro cassettes in a box which contain tons of creative material that I have logged over the years. My old Micro Cassette Recorder no longer qualifies as a Micro Cassette Recorder so I needed a new one so that I could listen and evaluate all the old brain droppings from years past. As it is 2009 I currently have a digital micro recorder whose contents I can dump into my computer, but that's another story. I needed a reasonably priced device which would allow me to listen to all this junk. the JWIN JXR16 was equal to the task.

This microcassette recorder was very inexpensive, and I definitely got what a paid for. Construction quality feels cheap, but most importantly, the sound quality is awful. I thought perhaps the tapes I ordered were the problem, and ordered higher quality tapes. It made no difference.
Don't waste your money on this product. I gave it to my daughter to use as a toy, as it is usless to me. I would not recommend.