You would think that by now Sony would have gotten all the kinks out of its cassette tape decks! It makes a loud racket when each deck switches the cassettes sides and starts playing in the other direction.

And It also only records on one deck.

Otherwise it's a good unit. Works reliably and easy to connect.

Make sure your stereo receiver has a "phono" jack or that you have a pre-amp. Otherwise you will not get audio.

Plays continuously from bothe sides of both tapes. Repeats that 5 times and then stops.

Labels on front for functions should be larger and perhaps luminescent. Many don't have brightly lighted cabinets.

But I'm happy. Playing all my tapes from the 80's especially the ones I recorded in Ireland in 1988 from a local pirate radio station there - TTTR or Treble T R as they called it. Great Irish and US country music. Interesting that they played many US country songs that were not so popular in the US - often the B side of the record.

Great to hear the commercials like selling tickets to a Johnny Cash appearance in Dublin and the commercials. Also the news.
You would think that by now Sony would have gotten all the kinks out of its cassette tape decks! It makes a loud racket when each deck switches the cassettes sides and starts playing in the other direction. And It also only records on one deck. Otherwise it's a good unit. Works reliably and easy to connect. Make sure your stereo receiver has a "phono" jack or that you have a pre-amp. Otherwise you will not get audio. Plays continuously from bothe sides of both tapes. Repeats that 5 times and then stops. Labels on front for functions should be larger and perhaps luminescent. Many don't have brightly lighted cabinets. But I'm happy. Playing all my tapes from the 80's especially the ones I recorded in Ireland in 1988 from a local pirate radio station there - TTTR or Treble T R as they called it. Great Irish and US country music. Interesting that they played many US country songs that were not so popular in the US - often the B side of the record. Great to hear the commercials like selling tickets to a Johnny Cash appearance in Dublin and the commercials. Also the news.