Pyle Dual Cassette Deck Stereo - Hi-Fi Sound, Compact and Portable Tape Recorder Player with Digital Professional Noise Reducing System and RCA Cables, Record & Play Audio and Music - PT639D.5

Awesome tape deck

I bought the Pyle PT639D cassette deck to make a tape, as my 40-year-old tape deck did not want to work. I found a cassette tape still wrapped in its original plastic, removed the plastic from around the case, opened the case and pulled out an unused tape. Placed the unused tape into the player and started to record using a stereo system I had never made a tape with. I did not like the results. I moved Everything to another room in the house that had my old stereo equipment set up in. I fully rewound the just opened and slightly recorded on cassette tape and with no inputs hit record to erase what had just been recorded. With out checking my recent work I started to record again. Once that was completed, I wanted to check the quality of my work so rewound the tape and hit play. At first it was very soft and then got loud as the most recent recording came across the head. Realizing that the soft volume was my first original recording on the tape, I decided I would record nothing on the tape multiple times to see if that would erase the unwanted starts. It could not erase what it had previously recorded. Not only was the tape deck unable to erase a tape it had recorded, when the record and play button were pushed there was a lot of give in them as if the support was going to bend in. Another telling sign is there is a card enclosed with it that says, “REGISTER WITHIN 7 DAYS TO CLAIM YOUR 1 YEAR WARRANTY AND *FREE HDTV CLEANING KIT +CABLES” This cassette deck is not only a waste of money but also a waste of natural resources.As others have said: use a boombox. I put the above-mentioned cassette in my twenty-year-old boombox and pressed record with no inputs and it erased the tape just fine. The Boombox also did a better job recording than this cassette deck.With so many proven designs from over the years this cassette deck is a total disappointment. They decided to take a wheel and draw an equilateral triangle that just touches the outside of the circle and market the triangle as a wheel. This Pyle product is a waste of natural resources. I looked at other cassette decks and their performance specs (dynamic range, etc.) were all the exact same lousy specs compared to that of the forty-year-old cassette deck I had. This led me to believe that behind the face plate, these new ones are all essentially the same product regardless of the name, and therefore I chose the cheapest one. IF this product had worked as well as my ancient boombox, I would not be returning it.So as others have said skip this Pyle of c*** and use a boombox.

Bought for my FIL and he loves it. I did have to hook it up and now he is so happy he can listen to his old cassettes.

This is one hot mess of a unit. Now I normally don’t write reviews but there were so many issues with this and I just had to share my experience in hopes that I save someone the aggravation. Now I was just looking for a simple tape deck to play music at my desk through my speakers so when I saw this pop up on my search and saw the price, I though could it be too good to be true? Yes, yes it was. Here are my issues:1. The buttons are really hard to push down, same as closing the tape deck. I figured that they might loosen up over time but was really surprised at the resistance.2. The left deck worked fine, I then tried the right deck. As I was playing my cassette, I noticed the right side of the cassette was not rotating. I stopped the playback and sure enough, my cassette was getting eaten. Luckily I stopped it in time and was able to save my tape.3. Tried it again, made sure both sides were spinning and they were this time but the music was sped up, slightly. I stopped playback, put the cassette back in deck one and it was normal, put it back in deck two, same results. The music was playing faster.4. Another note, the gray label in the deck that sits in the back and allows you to read the tape length more easily was crooked and it wasn’t even close. Quality control?5. Finally, it says PylaUSA but the back of the unit says made and China… trust me I could tell without even looking.Look, you can do better, take the money you were going to put into this unit and pay a little more for something with better quality. You want to enjoy your music, not hassle with a subpar unit.

...I'd love to rate this cassette, as My Harmon Kardan finally died (FOR GOOD ), but I still have no deck/cassette player. Promised by the 7th, then the 9th, and still nothing. I aint expecting wonders from entry level deck, but mmmmm, oh It's still not here! PEACE EVERYONE GRD... finally got the re-ordered deck, the sound is better than expected, the buttons,(manual) need alot of force, but work nicely, for the $ I'm very impressed. I've owned 5-6 home decks and several car ones, again the sound is very good. Glad I waited! PEACE GRD

cassette deck is hard to load a cassette to play section and if you are not careful when you start it the machine will eat your tape, had a fleetwood mac cassette destroyed due to this. when you start to play a cassette you better ckeck that both spendales are turning, if not you better pull it out and insert it again. i am not sure if i am going to send this back yet and i am being very careful to insert it correctly. sometimes you think it is in correctly and then it is not. so be careful with your cassette tapes as they are a treasure.

That it’s worth the price and it plays and sounds very good 👍👍👍👍👍