QFX J-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

I’m absolutely! In love with the QFX radio, and the value. The quality of the radio, and sound is amazing. I love the nostalgia, and how it’s also modern. The portability, and ease of use. The QFX radio has so many options for the value, and it brings back memories. The QFX radio was packaged very carefully, and delivered very quickly. The battery life is long lasting, it has three ways of use (rechargeable battery, a power chord to plug into an outlet, or you can use batteries so you’re never out of power.

Don't go expecting to blast or make big booms from this radio and you won't be disappointed. If you want an affordable retro radio that plays music loud enough in a moderate sized room to be annoying to your parents, spouse, or dogs and cats, then this is for you. I have used the radio (FM) and the Bluetooth and have nothing bad to say about either. Oh yeah, one thing it has that wasn't clear to me when buying it: it does have a 110AC plug in that comes with it, aside from the option of using the 4 D batteries it does mention. Reception of FM sigal is very good with the antenna deployed or not.When it arrived (via the Amazon van) the box had been beaten up and taped together. I wasn't happy about that, but the good news was that the radio was not broken in any way inside or out.

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.

The retro look is very accurate! Looks like something straight out of the 80s/90s. The quality is pretty good for 40$. I love how it has a rechargeable battery, and it comes with the cable. The design is really nice, and it’s true to its size. I mainly got this for Bluetooth and it works good. It doesn’t go TOO loud though, so it’s not a radio I would suggest for a big outdoor event, or an area with lots of noise. Very good for just listening in your room or kitchen, or maybe a small outdoor function. I love the 3 band equalizer too. The main reason I’m giving 4 stars is because I haven’t tried out the radio feature so I’m not too sure on that, and I don’t use cassettes so I’m not sure about that either. But I definitely think it’s worth 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.