Sony TC-WE 435

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...