RCA - Refurbished CD/CD-R/RW Cassette Boombox with AM/FM Radio - Black

I was looking for something that a 97-year-old, nearly blind personcould use. The screen is big enough to see what is playing, especially on the radio. The sound is not too sharp. The machine does not feel durable when I push the different buttons. Still, in this age of mp3 players, I was happy to find something retro.

I bought this for an inexpensive boombox for work, and was surprised to see it offers a cassette deck, along with a cd player (can play CDRW) and line in audio. I've found that I can't get a local AM radio station that I used to listen to on a similar product, plus the tape player is inconsistent with the playback speed. Also, the player won't play the first 2-3 seconds of my burned CDRWs. I've learned to live with these shortcomings, but I'll buy new next time, and not RCA.

This is definitely an item for the dinosaur cassette collector. It has a cd player as well as an audio input for the ipod/mp3 player. This is where I say the old school meets multimedia. I was disappointed in the cd player drawer mechanism. It's not solidly built. Otherwise it's good.

I bought this specifically for work and wanted radio presets. Its very easy to program the presets and you can go up or down thru the preset buttons. I did not realize it had an auxilary in jack for my ipod so that made it an even better value (you will need to buy the cable to connect). I have not used the cd or cassette so I cannot comment on them. It also has bass boost for different genres of music which does make it sound better. Its not an extremely loud radio so not sure how it would do outside but for an office its perfect.

Tab for playing the tape does ot stay down. You have to press many times. I mainly purchased the radio to play my tapes. Would like to return, and would like to return to a store.

Overall I like my little radio. But I had to adjust when I received it cause the case was not screwed in properly and caused cd player to be stuck. Once I figure that out it now works like new!

I think I know what refurbished means-I could be wrong-but it means fixing something to nearly new condition-or has been checked to make sure it looks and works properly as new as possible. My refurbished boombox was clearly and visibly broken(the antenna) that is-Since the antenna was broken-their was no need to go further with anything-I would have loved to keep it-the appearance was awesome other than the antenna-and I basically bought it for our customer service room-there's just a few of us-and the room is small-the size and also the radio being all digital was a plus because you don't lose the station as fast. Sorry it didn't work out.

It didn't play CDs unless I pushed the CD bin door up while playing. Definitely defective. Also the volume in any setting was soft. It wouldn't even play at moderate volume level - soft only. I can't see why anyone would want this, even at the low price.