Cassette Decks

"Bring your old music collection into the 21st Century with this cassette-to-PC recorder." Review details: Single Test   → Test results

"The digital media revolution has impacted heavily on the music industry, and not only with the profit losses that come courtesy of illegal file sharers. Indeed, in its digital format, music has become truly portable, easily editable – and rather difficult to tangle. But however hastily we'd consign our old Jason Donovan audio cassettes to a life gathering dust at the back of a drawer, there are some tracks that we'd hate to lose in the digital takeover. It is still possible to buy cassette decks, of course, although you're likely to pay much the same price as you would for Ion Audio’s Tape 2PC. And while we've covered digitising vinyl and audio cassettes using your existing equipment before in PC Advisor, it's never been quite so easy to turn cassette to MP3 and add it to your library." Review details: Single Test   → Test results

"We recently looked at the Plusdeck 2c, a device for converting old cassette tapes to MP3 files. We complained that, while it was easy to use and produced good results, the setup procedure was needlessly complicated by the fact that it used outdated cabling. Now along comes the Firebox USB Cassette Deck, which does exactly the same thing, but doesn't require taking your computer apart to install it, and uses an easy USB connection." Review details: Single Test   → Test results