cassette players and recorders

I've owned Sony Mini disc players - the first one I owned had this AVLS - I didn't like it at all and wrote to Sony to let them know. This AVLS feature limited the upper volume of my first mini-disc player. I told Sony that they had no right to "control" my choice of the amount of volume I wanted to listen to my music. The second Sony mini-disc player I bought (the first one was defective) did NOT have the AVLS and I was pleased that they removed this Sony control over my choice. This product (the cassette player) has this Sony "big brother control". I was ready to purchase this product until I saw the AVLS feature. Now I will not buy this product simply because of that feature. I will write to Sony again about this cassette player. Believe me, the highest volume that Sony sets the AVLS at was low, insufficient. It was frustrating to not be able to turn up my volume, especially while I power walk and I hardly think that when I'm at my football games, I would even be able to hear the TV bands at all. The other features are nice - but Sony has lost my purchase due to the AVLS.

I got this walkman about a week ago and I'm loving it. It weighs about half as much as the 12 year old sony walkman its replacing, and the digital tuning is a great feature. I learned to work it easily in about 5 minutes of playing around and mimimal instructions. The tapes load from the back, which is a little odd, but doesn't do anything bad. AM radio works GREAT, FM pretty good, TV good on some stations, and WB not at all, but I don't really need that anyways. The battery indicator is a great feature that they happened to throw in, and all the buttons are in good places and work well. It comes with a case and headphones which both work well, and look dorky. I recomend this cassette player!

I recently purchased this player for my birthday as a gift to myself and I am so pleased with it that I actually just got done ordering another one as a back up, just incase I break my first one.
Very Happy, I love the Auto-Reverse feature because I listen to a lot of tapes at work and it saves me from having to stop my work to flip the tape over when side one has finished.
Wonderful unit, and reasonably priced, Great for the Audio Book fan.