Dual Stereo Cassette Tape Deck - Clear Audio Double Player Recorder System w/ MP3 Music Converter, RCA for Recording, Dubbing, USB, Retro Design - For Standard / CrO2 Tapes, Home Use - PT659DU

PYLE PT-659DU cassette deck review. Love it so far, played 6 old cassette tapes and it works perfectly. My sound is great, but I’m sure this depends on what you’re amplifying it with and your speakers. My system is a secondary system in my workout room. I’m using a Sony receiver and Klipsch bookshelf speakers and it sounds rich. Love the CrO2 ability, makes my old Maxell recorded tapes (some 30+ years old) sound great. I wasn’t sure how 30 year old tapes might sound but they’ve aged very well. I had to return the first one I bought, it failed at power up? Amazon sent a replacement in two days and all is good. The new unit rocks my old tapes and now I have to save up to buy high bias blank tapes. (Wow! the price of blank high bias tapes has exploded) Overall I wouldn’t hesitate to buy another PYLE unit, it sounds very good for a $200 deck.

I bought the Pyle dual deck model PT-659DU. I have a large stash of cassettes from the '70s - '90s which were recorded off the radio and I want to copy them from tape to CDs. The big problem is that the right-side well plays tapes at about 1.5 times the normal speed. In all likelihood this is caused by the cheap Chinese knock-off Mabuchi motors being used. The left well is perfect! Great, clear sound, especially since most of these tapes were originally recorded on Chrome tape. I registered my purchase on Pyle's website. They offer a warrantee which lasts 13 months, so if anything else goes wrong, I can mail it to them for repair or replacement. Happy so far with the left side of the unit which works great!

I am so happy with this product. It works great , priced right , stylish looking. My old sony duel cassette deck , died.. I have a lot of old cassette music , I was afraid they were gone forever . Luckily I found this one on amazon , plus 2 others . I choose this one for the name , and looks.+ options. I'm glad I did. this does so much more than my old sony. it also looks more stylish. the reset counter lights up digally. the sound is great !! easy to use. very happy ! tim Oshea

I gave this thing the benefit of the doubt. I read through all the other reviews and thought "one offs? "not my unit!" but I should have headed the warnings because everything that has been said about this has come to fruition. My 28 year old Sony dual boy finally went the way of the buffalo and I did not want to spend up for a Tascam or Teac but my hobby of dubbing live shows back to cassette has been consuming me and I needed a deck - I bought this particular one. I will just fire off all the negative aspects of this because the only positive really, really, is that it can play a tape - that is it. I have been trouble shooting for the last 2 days, swapping tapes, swapping wires, cleaning the unit, the unit is already dead. So here are the cons - the biggest - IT HAS CEASED RECORDING PROPERLY (static rumbles to no sound) AFTER 2 weeks - I got less than 14 full days with it - I am throwing it out this afternoon, will probably sledged it actually - junk box. 1) it's cheaply made with thin plastic; I believe I could shot-put it about 25 yds it is so light. 2) There is no auto reverse - this should be a basic function on a modern tape deck that cost 200 dollars. 3) You cannot hear what you are recording if you have an external input plugged in - so you are kind of flying blind, also, sometimes it is just nice to listen to what you are taping from the source. Even the near 30 year old tape deck allowed for this as well as auto reverse. Pyle basically is just ripping people off with this junk, I would put it in the should cost 35 dollar range. 4) Massive amounts of air/tape noise with every recording, joke levels - again, I am comparing it to a 30 year old object that worked up until 2 weeks ago amidst a huge taping project. How has the technology regressed this far? 5) Tape frequently get jammed and you feel like you could break the deck face at any moment 6) The audio meter when recording (blind) from an external source reads at certain levels - upon playback they are hotter and this difference can cause a lot of annoying trouble shooting to get it right. I would say avoid this at all costs - it is not worth it - go to thrift or vintage shops and getting an older model if you don't want to make the price jump to the big leagues, you will regret it - I am an avid music collector and listener as well as a musician, please take my humble word on it - I now regret it.

Simplicity revived. Great recording machine in a day when complication is the norm.

works well and looks very nice with it being a cheaper model i am impressed at the quality of this cassette playe3r

This unit replaced a very nice but inoperative older cassette deck. I occasionally listen to old cassettes and also needed to fill the empty space in my equipment rack. My new deck worked right out of the box and sounds fine, but is otherwise petty bare-bones. There is no headphone jack, there is no Dolby. The only "variation" is settings to play and record CrO2 tape. There is high-speed dubbing, which I haven't tried. After using the deck only twice, I noticed that the tape counter doesn't work for the left deck. I'm assuming that it did when I first tried the deck, but I'm not sure. Bottom line, the deck works and is reasonably priced for a basic deck. I'm glad it's available, because these days there isn't much to choose from. I would probably buy it again, mostly because I can't find a new "mid-range" deck and I wouldn't trust a used one.

Purchased this to convert my sizable tape collection to digital. After finding that after 10 years of non-use my 1990's era Sony and Technics decks no longer worked. Does this have auto reverse? No. Does it have seek? No. Does it have any advanced features that we enjoyed in the 90's? no. But does it offer solid playback? Yes. Well, I think the motors are a little weak, some older longer (120) tapes drag a bit. But otherwise this thing does the job. I've converted about 150 tapes in the last month with it. No real issues. Sounds good enough. Feels like it will last long enough to get through the remaining 250. I used the built in USB to play into Windows, and already have Audacity set up. My workflow: 1 - record tape through USB to Audacity. 2 - save the raw recording as .flac. (Audacity) 1 and 2 are so I can just get through the tapes, and get them digitized. future: 3 - review tapes, edit out what I don't want. Levels, fades, etc. (Audacity) 4 - save result as .flac. (Audacity) 5 - convert to .mp3 as needed for the iPod. (Winlame)

１と月ほど使って，ダビングなどしていますが特に問題ありません。古いカセットはテープが切れやすいので，ダブルカセットは助かります。 注意点としては，ダビングするとき，ダビングボタンも押して，インジケーターを点灯させておかないと，ダビングされない点です。軽くて使いやすいです。マニュアルは英語ですが，特に難しい操作はないです。値段も安いので，壊れても修理しないで，新しいのを買おうと思って言います。

Very good and genuine product I felt like providing some additional information.Recording both normal and fast are fantastic.Those who are lovers of music should buy this stuff.

Love this product- it allowed me bring to life a box of old tapes mostly from the 80's. Easy to use & easy to connect. Original analogue technology for analogue recordings- solid and reliable- great sound through my amplifier/receiver (Onkyo T8140). Highly recommended for anyone who has hidden treasure on cassette

Not UK compatible, requires additional stepdown voltage convertor . Would be helpful to highlight.

No son digitales pero son mecánicas y son de buena calidad y se pueden grabar de caset a caset