Retekess TR630 CD Cassette Player, Boombox CD Player AM FM Radio, Recording Transcription, USB, Micro SD, LCD Display, for Family

Love this thing. Small for a "boom box", which means easily portable. I mean not "great" sound, but what reasonable person would expect great sound out of a small, multi-function device? Sounds fine to me. I like that the controls for volume and tuning are manual, and therefore don't have to be reset after a power outage. Has cassettes and CDs and USBs. Tried recording to USB feature just to see if it works, and it does, but it seems a little fussy on the order of how you do things. I'm sure if you took 5 minutes to figure out the exact sequence, it would work fine. I don't care; I just want to know it is available if I need it. Other than USB recording, the controls are pretty standard. Overall, I think it's very nice for the price.

I bought this battery/plug-in /cassette/CD boombox/am/fm/remote control player to use when traveling in my car and for overnight stays. Today's vehicles have no way to play cassette tapes, mp3, CDs, etc. and the remote control is nice for evening use along with a jack for earphone for privacy or remote speaker for higher quality sound. This device seems to fit the bill so far. While I like it fine, I would like an upgraded version with all-digital controls for volume, tone control, frequency selector, and have all controls in one place in the front of the box, rather than on the sides. However for the price it fills most of my needs.

This is a top quality boom box and works well. The size of the box is compact and needs only a small area storage.

I love my new CD/Cassette Player, the CD’s play so clear and great and so do the cassette player and the Radio, and I love that it comes with a remote and Amazon had an $8.00 off coupon that you could use at checkout.

Sounds good & works well

This is a revised version of my earlier review. This time my tests and test reports are more detailed, and the review is hopefully more objective and less subjective.Retekess had a great idea. A device that could play AM, FM, cassette tape, or CD, and record onto USB drive or TF card, and several additional functions. In some ways this boombox is good, but in some ways it's confusing and even disappointing.There are many combinations of functions. I did not try them all. The things I tried are detailed below.Let's start with the good. The CD player plays commercial CDs, computer-recorded CDs, and CD-R discs with MP3 files. They play in stereo on the speakers or on the 3.5mm headphoneOne reason I tried this boombox was to copy a CD to digital files on a USB thumb drive. (It claims to also copy to a TF card, but I didn't try that.) The user manual gives only sparse instructions, and the display has only 4 digits, so it's hard to tell what's going on. One time when I pushed the RECORD button, the display started showing time in seconds and minutes, but nothing was audible. After that stopped, I tried again; this time I could hear the entire CD playing. When I got to the end of the CD, I examined the thumb drive in my PC. There were 23 tracks, one for each CD track and an extra instance of the first track. Sample rate is 44.1kHz, same as CD standard. Files are stereo MP3 at 128kbps, which is OK for music, although not CD quality. Plenty of headroom, no clipping. I found all the files in a folder named RIP. File names start with TRK1.MP3 and go sequentially from there, plus one files named TRK1~0.MP3. Date on all the files is 1/1/2000, times start at 12:38AM and then every few minutes after that. If I were to look at these files at a later date, I'd have no clue as to when they were created. Of course I could rename them with my PC; but if I had a PC I could have done all the conversions on the PC in the first place.Then I tried playing the MP3 files. I already had some other audio files on my thumb drive. Of course with just a four-digit numeric display on this boombox, there was no way to tell what folder I was in. I pressed play and one of my old files started playing. But when it ended, the boombox played parts of two or three other files, before settling down and playing another file correctly. I have no idea what file formats, bitrate, etc. are acceptable for this boombox, so I'd say it's unpredictable and unreliable.Next I tried the cassette player. Much to my disappointment, although there are two speakers, and a jack for a stereo headphone, the cassette player is monaural. There is also a noticeable hum in the background. I noticed a digital counter running on the display, but this is NOT an indicator of tape position; when I pause tape playback, the counter continues counting. Then I tried to make a digital copy of the cassette. This is why I bought this boombox ... I have a collection of old stereo music cassettes that I wanted to convert. Unfortunately, as I said, the tape player is NOT stereo. (IMHO there's no good reason for this player to be mono; the stereo cassette format was in use by 1964.) At any rate, I tried to convert the cassette. The instructions says to "Long press record button" but it doesn't define the word "long." I held the button down for about five seconds, but the display never said "REC" so no recording. I tried again a few more times, same result. Then I tried a very short press ... 1/2 second or less ... and the REC display turned on, so apparently I was recording at that point. I let the recording continue for about a minute, then "Long press" to end the process. I found the file in a different folder, named "REC." Same date as the CD files, and the timestamp on this file is *earlier* than on the CD files. Roughly the first 30 seconds of the cassette is missing from the file. The level of this cassette file is about 6dB louder than the CD files, and the cassette file does have some distortion in the louder parts. For some strange reason, the bitrate of this file is 192kbps, theoretically capable of better fidelity then the 128kbps CD transfers, although tape cassettes have worse fidelity than CDs; this makes no sense.Finally I tried the radio. It's impossible to tune it, or to tell what station you're hearing, because the numbers are painted around the perimeter of the tuning knob, which is roughly one inch diameter. To make matters worse, I could hear the same station at two or three different dial positions. Like the cassette, the radio is monaural, not stereo, but in this case it doesn't matter because the sound is terrible and tuning is awful.At this point, because of the cassette problems, I knew I didn't want to use this, so I didn't try any of the other functions, so I can't comment on anything else.Admittedly this is a very inexpensive boombox. It would be very optimistic to expect all the included functions to work perfectly, or even well. It's fine for playing CDs. It will copy your CD to a thumb drive well ... you just need to rename the files later so you know what's what. If you have a USB thumb drive with just one folder of files, it probably will play them well. If you have a monaural tape (speech, or a really old music recording) it will play that adequately, if you don't mind a little hum. It might copy a tape to a thumb drive, although the sound may have some distortion. Note, too, that the function switches are big plastic ovals protuding from both sides of the case ... it's not hard to imagine those breaking. The English part of the manual is roughly three pages of very small type. All in all, it's a strange combination. Perhaps to some people it is worth the price. Personally, I'm disappointed. I would have paid more IF it did everything well.

Radio sound is good. I purchased this unit especially for transferring tapes to SD Card. Record button intermittently DOES NOT work and difficult to use. Most of the times I lost 20 to 25 seconds of sound from the tape. Most probably I will return this unit.

This boombox has a lot of sound and even bass. Easy to use and has a cassette player built in (can record). It’s compact to sit in small spaces , has remote. Love it. Gave previously purchase CD Player to someone else, didn’t want to return it. I’m happy 😃