QFXJ-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

The media could not be loaded. This retro-style radio is everything I was hoping for and more! It has that perfect old-school boombox look straight out of the 90s, with a bold red color that really pops. The design brings back so many great memories, and it’s fun just having it on display—it’s a real conversation starter.Functionally, it works great! The sound quality is clear, the radio tuner is smooth, and I love that it plays both AM/FM and can even handle USB and cassette tapes. It runs on batteries or can be plugged in with a power cord, which is super convenient whether I want to use it outside or inside.Size-wise, it’s just right—not too big and not too small. It’s easy to carry around with the handle, but still feels solid and well-built. Even my cat seems to enjoy chilling next to it when I have music playing!If you’re looking for a cool, nostalgic radio that’s both stylish and functional, this is it. Highly recommend the red one—it looks amazing in person!

The media could not be loaded. I've been looking for a reason to buy a boom box and finally found it. I found a cassette tape of my 6th grade band concert from 1987 and immediately began looking for an affordable player. This was obviously my choice and I'm very glad that it was. Surprisingly, the tape plays great although our band may not haha. I'm very pleased with all of the features it has. The sound quality is not high end but for the price of this unit it's what I expected. The radio sounds great and the reception is good. I find myself scanning the shortwave bands at night and I'm surprised at the broadcasts I've picked up. The rechargeable battery is Great! I've been running for days on the initial charge. I've tested the record to cassette from bluetooth and it works very well. I ended up ordered some maxell blank tapes and am currently working on "summer mix 2025". This was 50 dollars well spent for a 50 year old looking for some nostalgia.

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.

This is well built, fun, and great practicality and retro enjoyment for the price.

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.