| Sony TCWE475 Dual Cassette Player / Recorder |  | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $180.00
Buy New: $111.81
as of 9/9/2010 22:08 CDT details
You Save: $68.19 (38%)
New (9) Refurbished (1) from $89.95
Seller: Electronics Expo
Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,111
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10.8
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 17 x 4.8
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: TCW-E475
Model: TCW-E475
UPC: 027242584419
EAN: 0027242584419
ASIN: B00005T408
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Dual auto reverse | | • | Dolby B and C noise reduction | | • | Dolby HX Pro circuitry | | • | Auto record Level | | • | Multi-AMS track search |
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Product Description
Sony's TC-WE475 Cassette Player/ Recorder is packed with great features for a superb listening and recording experience. Utilize our Dual auto reverse feature as you listen, and hear the difference that Dolby B and C noise reduction makes as it suppresses high frequency noise. Also featuring Dolby HX Pro circuitry, Auto Record Level, Multi-AMS track search, Relay Play, and Full-logic feather-touch transport controls, the TC-WE475 is a treasure.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 51
 Excellent choice for reviving your cassette collection September 1, 2010
E. M. BAGBY (Atlanta, GA)
This is not a Nakamichi Dragon or Sony ES Series, but it does a respectable job for the price range. I was surprised that mine was built in JAPAN. The quality of the deck is superb. I paid 150 shipped from J & R to replace a Yamaha K1000 who's capstan motor died. Rather than paying that much to repair it with used parts, I opted to replace it. Let's face it, cassettes are dying, there are so few choices on the market unless you go professional (Denon, Tascam, etc).
Performance is quite good. It reproduces very well, I cannot tell the difference between it on playback than the old K1000 which was quite a bit more than this unit. It's controls are easy to use, and while a real time tape counter would be nice, it's not a deal killer. The pitch control on deck A is GREAT for playing back tapes recorded on other decks that are either too fast or slow. Music search works well. No it is not a 3-head with 20-20,000Hz response, .004% wow and flutter and an 80db S/N, but it certainly sounds better than any of the cheap junk from China being sold with a USB output. I have been using mine to digitize my tape collection (over 400 cassettes) and the sound quality is wonderful. Relay play is nice, it will play both sides in one deck then play the other in succession automatically.
To those who are complaining about the remote, or lack thereof. If you own a Sony receiver, you CAN interface the TC-WE475 with a simple cable and control it from your Sony receiver remote. I have a Sony STR-DE615 ProLogic receiver from 1997 (a GREAT unit BTW) and it works just fine with the included remote.
If you can find one of these and still use tapes, grab it while you can. This is a keeper. A great deck for under $200 new. I've seen them on Ebay for less.
Great Replacement July 19, 2010
Magali Rojas (Caguas, P.R.)
I replaced my 19 years old Technics cassette deck (which stopped working) with this Sony. It's okay with no remote for me. I started to play old cassette tapes and record them on the Teac CD recorder. I was able to do the setup because I have a 19 years old Technics detachable equalizer with extra inputs. To my surprise the recording was clean although the cassettes were 19 years old also. Thank You Sony, the quality is still there.
Sony TC-WE475 Duel Cassette Deck. June 25, 2010
David Wayt (Minnesota)
It is a very good machine. It has features ( continuous play, duel tape play )that make listening to the cassette tapes more enjoyable than my old machine. The sound is also very good. I rate it 5 stars in sound and ease of play.
Great deck, ready and steady, requiring no maintenance, but a bad tape finished it. May 20, 2010
Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States)
I've had this deck since it first came out almost ten years ago and have transferred hundreds of hours of tape to computer with it. Not only does it have auto reverse, but you can choose to have it play and reverse two tapes in two different decks. Pitch control has also proven a marginally useful feature (to my perfect-pitch sensibilities). And the AMS (automatic search feature) was effective and frequently useful. I'd hazard to say that Dolby C is no longer relevant (remember Dolby DBX)?), and some of the settings on cassette decks merely duplicate all that can be done with the sound file once it's been converted to digital. Nevertheless, pause control and headphone monitoring were useful and effective as well as auto record levels. But above all, the deck continued to look and perform like a mint-condition machine despite the miles of tape I had run through it.
Everything was fine--until I played a defective tape that snarled and jammed the capstan mechanism, bringing the machine to a sudden halt along with the dreaded LED read-out: "E" (for "error," as though I needed to be told). I shut it off and on, petitioned it with a few of the Shinto Japanese phrases I remembered from a crash course I'd taken back in 1990--until, after exhausting every trick I could think of, I saw no recourse but to gently pry the door open with a nail file and go after my jammed tape with a tweezers.
I salvaged my tape (most of it) and was able to open the door. Unfortunately, in the process I broke off the little piece on the inside left that serves as a latch holding the door shut. So with miles yet to keep (i.e. boxes of cassette tape awaiting conversion and disposal), and with the cost-prohibitive rates of repair, I've opted not to keep running the machine through the use of adhesive tape as a door latch. I'm primarily annoyed at myself (and the defective cassette), though it also seems to me that the machine either should have been able to handle the unexpected little bump in the road or made it possible for the user to administer some sort of productive first aid in instances when the dreaded "E" makes its appearance. Of course, there's always the possibility that, had I kept the user's manual, or sought to download it from Sony, I would have found a solution in a troubleshooting section of the manual.
So mine is a recommendation with a minor reservation (admittedly, it would be a major reservation had the problem occurred shortly after purchase). Since Onkyo has a comparably priced machine that matches my Onkyo amplifier, I'm changing horses, though I wouldn't be surprised if after another fall I re-order this Sony.
[I now see that Amazon has the User's Manual on-line. Leave it to Amazon. Even with the market in a free-fall, I'm not selling my Amazon shares even if I wash my hands of this Sony deck (there was nothing in the manual's trouble-shooting section about the problem mentioned above). Nevertheless, this may be the #1 selling cassette deck on Amazon for good reason. I'll let you know after I've spent some time with the Onkyo.]
wonderful April 24, 2010
Misstyblu (Randallstown, MD 21133)
It is a wonderful product. I am very pleased with my purchase. I purchased it to convert tapes to cds. It works well.
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