Onn Cassette Recorder: Unboxing, Demonstration, and Review! Walmart Deal!

What song is that he plays

I figured that the Onn cassette machines had been discontinued, but since the cassette seems to be making a comeback, I'm hoping that Walmart will come out with a stereo version.

Got one of these for $14 in 2023

Mine won’t close when I put it in 😢

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I would definitely say that is a returned item Walmart has a tendency of taking return items whether if they're broken or not and putting them back on the shelf I don't know why the hell they do that but they do. I would say it's a pretty nice review but couldn't watch all the way through your video just has too much background noise. and then you're playing that cheesy supermarket elevator music in the background or at least that was supermarket music back in my childhood days now these days you walk into Walmart and they're jamming playing popular hits Walmart radio.

I just want a shoebox I don't feel bad cutting up and putting a PWM speed control on the motor to make drone sounds I can record fast and play back slow. This should work just fine.

Thanks so much for doing this. I'm working on a project of making old-style video game music and wanted to record it to take recorder like we would have back in the day. For my use, this will be perfect. Thanks!

In the UK there's no Walmart but Walmart have a stake in ASDA, the UK supermarket. I have seen the ONN brand as you mention, on various products but unfortunately the blank tapes and tape recorders haven't made it to the stores. I pronounce it the way you do. There's a word 'On-brand' meaning - 'conforming to the image or identity that a particular company seeks to associate with its products or services:

Can u transfer cassette to the computer

I saw them dollar tree batterys

Nothing better for dictation than a cassette recorder.

My first car has a cassette player so I wanted to make some tapes to listen to in the car but i don't have the money for a nice cassette deck so I'm looking at some cheap alternatives

Thank you for sharing the review I really like it and I am considering purchasing this item. I was hoping you would try out the AC adapter in this unboxing video. Can the AC adapter be used without batteries?

this was in the mid 2000s

If anybody can help me that would be appreciated, when I was younger, I used to go to Walmart and I used to buy these cassette recorder‘s. They came with a microphone with a stick. On the bottom of the microphone, it was like velvet. The recorder itself was plastic, small and flat, took four AA batteries. On the left there was the power plug, a 3.5m microphone plug a smaller 2.5 headphone jack and then the standard 3.5 inch headphone jack and then the volume wheel and then on the top below the cassette deck were the buttons.

This is the greatest thing I have ever 👀 seen!!!

Sounded pretty good with the 58 and even the mic that came with it wasnt too bad.

could i plug headphones into this and then listen to it portably?

I got one of these as a gift and after a couple days of constant use it broke and shredded right through the middle of one of my blank cassettes. Now not only do I have to get another cassette I have to get ANOTHER FREAKING RECORDER.

I just bought one of these onn type cassette tape recorders.
I can't get it to stop clicking loudly.
It's so loud that the clicks transfer over into the recording.
Any ideas?

They were a dead format, as far as civilians were concerned.

Techmoan explains that one of the reasons cassettes survived to the 2020s (in America, at least) was because cassettes were the only allowed physical music format in correctional facilities.

It will get the job done if you have an old TRS80 that you want to use cassettes with. In my experience, the mic jack was more reliable than the aux jack on a RadioShack tape recorder for recording the computer data anyway.

Well...thats a not very inspiring voice?😏

Mine is a 2011 MCR-976 just like it, a $3 thrift store purchase.

Amazing video, keep doing things like this!

I bought a brand new one. It came in an an hour ago. The internal mic doesn't work. The playback volume is weak at full blast. And, the external mic works sometimes but not all. It's going back. Worst thing I've ever purchased!

I've came here from Saw franchise

Fun fact: the british police still uses cassettes

Only thing that throws me off with this one is over the size I have a RCA Cassette Recorder I got in 2014 and its way smaller then this one is.

can you record something from your phone into a Cassette with this unit?

I want one!

I just got the Onn Cassette Recorder for $5! Just had to get for the price alone! (6/12/20)

Does Walmart still sell cassettes and VHS?

I have one and it sounds terrible imo and it's mono but it works

Walmart has discontinued the Onn cassette recorder. If you want one, check Walmart online and see if any of your stores still have the clearance models in stock. The clearance price was shown as $15. Prices for the other cassette recorders using the same design (Jensen, GPX, Sylvania, Coby) seem to be going up, perhaps due to increased sales (this is a very tiny market with few competitors) and maybe to increased import tariffs on Chinese goods.

How much does it cost

I want to buy a cassette recorder sOon as this quarantine stops I've been so inloved with cassette tape recorders, walkman and stereos!

Man, I bought one of these and was pretty excited to record, but the first time I turned it on it started making a really loud humming/screeching sound out of the speaker. :(

Cassette tapes aren't dead, they're just not as commonly used anymore.

Thank you for a nicely-prepared video review. The biggest advantage of this unit, which uses the ubiquitous Tanashin cassette mechanism, is that it is brand-new. Quality control is not a strength of units like this, but purchasing the higher-quality cassette recorders of the past may entail investing some time and funds into fixing problems like worn-out belts or a dead motor.

question. Is the microphone input a mono jack or a stereo jack? if I used a 3.5 to rca connector can I access both left and right tracks?

I bought one in saturday prety good

I have a couple of questions for you,
1- Does your tape recorder still works till today?
2- Can the tapes be played on a Walkman?

For what it does I like it. And my wallet seems to appreciated. As of today (April 25). Walmart posted on their site that is out of stock. I hope they put it back in store soon.

ONN is a Wal-Mart store brand. I have a suspicion that most of Wal-Mart's store-brand tech is just rebadged Chinesium, much like anything is these days. This happens, and companies are questioning why consumers aren't trusting them anymore...