Make this your last tape deck! (Sony TC-WE 435)

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Product:	Sony TC-WE 435
Date:	17/01/01 (449 review reads)
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Advantages: Good sound quality and looks

Disadvantages: some design flaws

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 (I think this looks better than the top of the range models Sony do, although that's a subjective issue).

The only points in which the unit is let down is the shorter than normal (by that, I mean in comparison with other Sony seperates in the "intermediate" range) mains lead and naff mains plug (smaller than other Sony's - petty, I know) and the amateurish, flimsy mechanical eject buttons. What the designers were thinking of cannot even be guessed at.

Within a few years, cassettes will be "obslete" but this deck should see you through many years of use, so add this piece of kit to your stack.

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