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My initial impression is that this is a high quality unit that does great things, not only for CD albums, but for all those treasured cassettes you used to use in your car until your new car came with a CD player.

Now you can bring both of those formats out of the car, now that a hot summer is just around the corner, and enjoy them inside using earphones or as input to your stereo or home theatre system.

My greatest surprise is how good the cassettes sounded in this player. I never remembered them sounding this good! Possibly the player does some audio processing above and beyond the call of duty. Anyway, I love the sound, features (it records to cassette from CD or line input), and the general quality of the unit.

It may be considered expensive compared to the many cheaper CD or cassette players flooding the market. But this is a quality player. Recommended.

Unit has great sound production and thorough instructions; basic operation and hookup was easy and didn't require much research.

My wife brought many music cassete tapes from Japan when we moved here years ago and her old player died recently.. I started looking for a new one and found it to be difficult to find anything of quality. I finally found the Teac and she is ecstatic over the sound quality. We had never heard her tapes sound so wonderful! And, the Teac can also copy a cd to cassete if she needs to.