Sony TC-WE 435

The tape player almost feels jurassic when you consider that subsequently the the compact disc the mini disc followed and could arguably be superseded themselves by blu ray audio. However it certainly brought back nostalgia when listen to this cassette player. As people will have noticed already due to the age of this player and due to manufacturers ceasing production of cassette players, it is now only possible to purchase these second hand. This also has it's upsides to as it provides the potential benefit of picking up a bargain for very little outlay. Upon seeing this cassette player again, you are instantly reminded of why in it's heyday it was such a ...  Read the complete review

Although I haven't bought the deck myself, I have assessed it and find that it is another unit that Sony has provided for those of us who want value for money. I was involved in specifying an auto-reverse tape deck for our church to record services with and was wanting to push for this deck as the one to buy. It has all the basic features that a good cassette deck must have i.e. Dolby B&C noise reductionm, Dolby / B&O HX-Pro (which will lead to good-quality recordings), auto-reverse on both transports, AMS function for use in navigating pre-recorded musicassettes, high-speed dubbing amongst other things. I have handled the display sample unit abd ...  Read the complete review

The Sony TCWE435 Twin Cassette Deck hosts a great range of features including many not featured on so-called "top of the range" cassette decks, features such as digital display tape counters on both decks and pitch control which makes it perfect for worn out cassettes which have become stretched with years of use, perhaps in dodgy walkmans with bad drive systems. Both playback and recording sound quality is good and, although cassettes have a limit to how good they will play back anyway by nature, it would be hard to find anything as good as this deck in the average enviroment, which is after all what we are all likely to have. It is also unlikely ...  Read the complete review

Sony's "435" is a mighty fine addition to anyones seperates system. A decent host of features, such as digital display tape counters on both decks and an extremely useful pitch control on deck "A", makes it ideal for all those old tapes which we played to death in the days before we heard of CD's and minidiscs. Sound quality is good and, although Sony produce a more expensive "higher" spec machine with an aluminium front, the only real gains being decorative and different colour finish, the "435" should see you through until your tapes wear out (or you've replaced them with CD's). Smart appearance ...  Read the complete review