Customer Reviews

Sony WM-FX488 Walkman Stereo Cassette Player with TV and Weather Channel Reception

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I recently purchased this player for my birthday as a gift to myself and I am so pleased with it that I actually just got done ordering another one as a back up, just incase I break my first one.
Very Happy, I love the Auto-Reverse feature because I listen to a lot of tapes at work and it saves me from having to stop my work to flip the tape over when side one has finished.
Wonderful unit, and reasonably priced, Great for the Audio Book fan.

I am very disappointed w/ the order. The on/off button is in the front of this walkman. Therefore, you could accidentally be pressing or touching the "On" button and not knowing it (since you can not hear any sound without an earpiece). Also the reception is not all that good!

Receiver is cheap, radio stations overlap once I reach the city, from my suburb. apartment. Depending on what direction I face downtown Seattle, I can get 3 or four stations playing at once. This player takes one AA battery, once the battery is low, it will eat your cassette tape. After a month and a half, the fastfoward button is now stuck and prevents the player from turning over to AM/FM/TV/WB, not to mention it drains any battery left in it, and will not play tape in this situation either. If I could find the receipt, I'd return it and seek an apology for my wasted time, money, and damaged tapes! The only good is that it is light-weight, but what else can I use it for? I think I'll take a ride to goodwill and buy three players for a $1.99 each, one of them has to work!

This is a great lightweight cassette player, but if you want to listen to TV and/or radio be prepared to be disappointed. It is not as good as the older Sony model WMFX-281.

very good product. small, and light to carry. Sony has always been number 1 with me.

I got this walkman about a week ago and I'm loving it. It weighs about half as much as the 12 year old sony walkman its replacing, and the digital tuning is a great feature. I learned to work it easily in about 5 minutes of playing around and mimimal instructions. The tapes load from the back, which is a little odd, but doesn't do anything bad. AM radio works GREAT, FM pretty good, TV good on some stations, and WB not at all, but I don't really need that anyways. The battery indicator is a great feature that they happened to throw in, and all the buttons are in good places and work well. It comes with a case and headphones which both work well, and look dorky. I recomend this cassette player!

I've owned Sony Mini disc players - the first one I owned had this AVLS - I didn't like it at all and wrote to Sony to let them know. This AVLS feature limited the upper volume of my first mini-disc player. I told Sony that they had no right to "control" my choice of the amount of volume I wanted to listen to my music. The second Sony mini-disc player I bought (the first one was defective) did NOT have the AVLS and I was pleased that they removed this Sony control over my choice. This product (the cassette player) has this Sony "big brother control". I was ready to purchase this product until I saw the AVLS feature. Now I will not buy this product simply because of that feature. I will write to Sony again about this cassette player. Believe me, the highest volume that Sony sets the AVLS at was low, insufficient. It was frustrating to not be able to turn up my volume, especially while I power walk and I hardly think that when I'm at my football games, I would even be able to hear the TV bands at all. The other features are nice - but Sony has lost my purchase due to the AVLS.