QFX J-220BT Boombox MP3 Conversion from Radio to Cassette with 4-Band (AM, FM, SW1, SW2) Radio with Bluetooth, Rechargeable Battery, Dual 3” Speakers, Built-in Microphone, Recorder, 3-Band Equalizer

This boombox is a fantastic purchase! The sound quality is impressive for its size, with clear highs and a solid bass. It’s easy to set up and use, and I love the portability—it’s perfect for outdoor gatherings or taking music on the go. The battery life is decent, and it charges quickly. I also appreciate the option for Bluetooth connectivity, which makes it super convenient to connect to my phone. Overall, it’s a great value for the price, and I’m really happy with my purchase!

Bought this as a shop radio to play cassettes, and to transfer my music to cassettes. So far im pretty happy. The bluetooth works good and the sound is pretty darn good for it. I have only tried the plug and not the batteries, but i expect no problems. All the tuning knobs work and its just like a oldschool boombox from back in the days. Not quite as nice quality wise but for 40ish bucks I am more then satisfied. The only part slightly lacking is the recording function. I pair my phone with the bt and recorded onto a cheap type 1 cassette. Had quite a bit of white noise and some odd reverb issues when you play your freshly recorded cassette. On the flip side I increased the volume on the radio itself, the phone was already playing maxed out. Made a significant improvement. I expect with some nicer cassettes it would improve. However im satisfied as is. All in all I highly reccomend. I will be purchasing a second one here soon so I can leave on at my shop and one at my house. And probably just buy a third to keep as a spare. Since lets be honest, this isnt exactly a sony or tascam. But if its good enough for me to get 3 i think yall would like it

I would give this a 4 stars because you have to listen very closely while you are rewinding your tape, there is no automatic rewind shutoff. I have yet to finish a tape, though it does say it has automatic stop for finishing tapes. The sound quality for mine is very good, the knobs and radio all work great. Equalizer is very useful and works well. The Cassette player is a bit wobbly, obviously more cheaply made than the rest. And the box it came in completely deteriorated before I could even get it out of the Amazon mail slot– causing it to fall right on the floor upon opening the door. I love the product, but there are a few things to just be careful of. Bluetooth and radio both work great.

Great product great price fast shipping, alot of sound volume in a small package, loaded with options that work well Bluetooth SD card thumb drive cassette tape radio picksup channels easierly. can't go wrong with this power house.

Short version: If you're thinking about purchasing this for it's recording function, don't. The recording function does not work by any acceptable standard.Longer version: I bought this specifically for it's recording function. After fruitlessly scouring Amazon trying to find a tape recorder/player that would allow me to line-in audio to record onto tape, I eventually settled on this, because it had the next best thing: recording from bluetooth. This unit (as well as it's manual) claim that you can record bluetooth input the same as you would record from the radio. I used to record from the radio all the time as a kid on my old (sadly lost) boombox. SO this seemed an acceptable alternative.To say the results were unfavorable would be a gross understatement. Bluetooth playing through the speakers was fine, but the recording sounded like total garbage. It was quiet, garbled, and full of tape hiss. This radio gets LOUD, but if I took the recording I got and cranked it all the way, it was still awful and quiet. I don't know how to better describe it, but it was pointless. It just doesn't record properly.Thoughts on the rest of the unit:The unit itself is not of great build quality. I expected that. Though if you want to know what I mean, it is cheap plastic mostly. Feels like might almost break it by operating it. The buttons actually squeak when you press them.Tape player: Aside from the inability to record - the tape player is fairly functional. I tested it with a Stone Temple Pilots tape I had, and it seemed to be slow on first play. It was the middle of the tape, so I rewound it to the beginning. By the way, rewind is sloooow. Anyhow, hit play, and it actually sounded pretty good. And seemed to work fine. Not sure if the initial slowness was the player or me not remembering how the song sounded. But once I rewound and played from beginning everything sounded alright... gets me to....Sound quality. I noticed a lot of folks on here complain about it. I mean, they are cheap speakers, so you get what you pay for, but it has an eq, and with a little adjustment, I feel like I got decent sound out of it. If you're looking for booming bass -- probably not happening-- but for rock music, it sounded good to me.Blue tooth - Worked for me just fine. Flipped it to BT mode and paired with my phone no problem. Sound quality was as described above.Radio - only had the radio on for half a sec as I was flipping the switch. It happened to be on a station and sounded decent to me. I did not intentionally attempt to tune into anything, so how strong the receiver, etc. are, I have no clue. Only had it on FM. Can't speak at all to AM or short wave capabilities.MP3 playing - appeared to play MP3s from USB or SD card. I don't know who still plays MP3s vs streaming or going back to physical media, but okay. I didn't test cause I don't have a drive or SD card with MP3 floating around.Convert to MP3 - Also did not test, but based on how terrible the tape recording was, I don't have a ton of confidence about it.TL;DR: If you want to record to tape, do not get this unit. If you don't mind the lackluster build quality, this could be a serviceable tape player/radio/bluetooth speaker. For me, the search continues.