This is a cassette player and converter that just passed my hands and returned back to the shop bought it Lidl at a price of 22.5 euros ....
Anyway i made a very short check very carefully without opening any plastic paking in case i cold return it back.
The casete player can be easily removed from its foam wrapper by carefully detaching the scotch tape
This is the picture of the player with the cover closed .....
and here witrh the cover open!
and here with a tape for minimal test
Here are all the playback control buttons . ON top are the direction button , playback , FF (fast forward), REW rewind , the playback button and the stop button
and aboveare the controls for volume , USB earphone and eject
and here is how compares with my Aiwa tape player
As you know Lidl chain of supermarkets every week they offer news series of products that are recycled every half a year. Same happens to this nice and tiny cassette converter . Hoping that this small gadget could fulfill my interests in converting several cassettes I bought it with the hope that it could fulfill my interests : including a internal memory so that recording could be off computer . It was a specification not noticed in the box , so it was the only reason i boght to check into the users guide
Anyway i made a very short check very carefully without opening any plastic paking in case i cold return it back.
Just opening its box the following items were included:
A guide (easily unpacked from its wraper ) , the player , a USB cable , earphones two batteries and a CD called Audiolava that is the real time converter
Unfortunately no information was available for internal memory ! that means the converter can only convert on trhe fly with computer via the USB ... Gosh , it was not my intention ... so is the reason to return it back...
The casete player can be easily removed from its foam wrapper by carefully detaching the scotch tape
This is the picture of the player with the cover closed .....
and here witrh the cover open!
and here with a tape for minimal test
Here are all the playback control buttons . ON top are the direction button , playback , FF (fast forward), REW rewind , the playback button and the stop button
For the sake of the review i did a very short audio test by installing two batteries from my collection and used a company tape (original commercial recording )
The SKD required at least two times press PLAY so that it can start play . Otherwise ti seemed as 'dead'!
Sound: sound is great ! (used the Sennheiser earphones for the best possible audio ) and compares with the also great audio from Aiwa with little more higher tones.
As Aiwa is quite old (13 years after the purchase) that possibly means that the speed is somehow slower than the nominal. Checking the speed pf Silvercrest over Aiwa , foe at about one 'hash' over (Mi note shifts to Fa in silvercrest )
While changing direction on Silvercrest and changing tape, the direction remains the same . That means if the tape is played in the reverse (the B side while the normal side is in A )and you change the tape , the tape is played on the reverse side !
Maximum volume is relatively low. compared to Aiwa's at least 25 db ! Its sound is still comfortable with the Sennheiser earphones
If the player had an internal memory i could keep it . Otherwise it is very good though with relativity low though sufficient volume.
