Move to music and more with Sony's WM-FX488 Walkman Digital Tuning TV/Weather AM/FM Stereo Cassette Player. The new slim design will slide right into your pocket for awesome audio anywhere. Featuring a TV Tuner and Weather Band for TV channels 2-13, and up-to-the-minute weather, a Digital Synthesized FM/AM Stereo Tuner, Digital Auto Preset Scanning, 40 Station Preset Tuning (7TV/4WB/24FM/5AM), and up to 35 hours extended battery life (during continuous playback), this player performs. Auto Reverse Tape Stereo Cassette Playback provides nonstop cassette play as you enjoy the Mega Bass Sound System. Also utilize AM Wide Band Tuning, and the FM Local/Distant (DX) Switch. The WM-FX488 fits listening into your lifestyle!
Sony's WM-FX488 stereo cassette player is portable enough--and, at under half a pound--light enough to go anywhere. In addition to playing tapes, the Walkman offers drift-free, digitally synthesized FM stereo and wideband AM, TV (channels 2 to 13), and weather band (channels 1 to 7) reception.
The player's automatic volume limiter system (AVLS) maintains an even volume level, guarding against unintended level increases and evening the output of musical passages that vary widely in level. Auto-reverse lets you enjoy uninterrupted listening to both sides of a cassette with no need to open the player and turn over the tape, while Mega Bass produces deep, rich bass tones.
For the radio, 40-station preset memory offers one-button tuning to your choice of seven TV stations, four weather-band stations, 24 FM stations, and five AM stations. At the press of a button, the "digital auto preset scanning" feature plays a few seconds of each memorized radio station, in sequence, to help select stations for listening and to determine which to set into memory. An FM local/distant (DX) switch improves reception of fuzzy stations.
Supplied MDR-027 over-ear headphones offer wide dynamic range and clear sound, and the unit also comes with a carry case and belt clip. A single AA battery provides up to 35 hours (maximum, using Sony Alkaline batteries) of continuous tape playback, or up to 40 hours of FM radio reception.
1 AVLS
I've owned Sony Mini disc players - the first one I owned had this AVLS - I didn't like it at all and wrote to Sony to let them know. This AVLS feature limited the upper volume of my first mini-disc player. I told Sony that they had no right to "control" my choice of the amount of volume I wanted to listen to my music. The second Sony mini-disc player I bought (the first one was defective) did NOT have the AVLS and I was pleased that they removed this Sony control over my choice. This product (the cassette player) has this Sony "big brother control". I was ready to purchase this product until I saw the AVLS feature. Now I will not buy this product simply because of that feature. I will write to Sony again about this cassette player. Believe me, the highest volume that Sony sets the AVLS at was low, insufficient. It was frustrating to not be able to turn up my volume, especially while I power walk and I hardly think that when I'm at my football games, I would even be able to hear the TV bands at all. The other features are nice - but Sony has lost my purchase due to the AVLS.
2 Easy on my eyes, wallet, and muscles
I got this walkman about a week ago and I'm loving it. It weighs about half as much as the 12 year old sony walkman its replacing, and the digital tuning is a great feature. I learned to work it easily in about 5 minutes of playing around and mimimal instructions. The tapes load from the back, which is a little odd, but doesn't do anything bad. AM radio works GREAT, FM pretty good, TV good on some stations, and WB not at all, but I don't really need that anyways. The battery indicator is a great feature that they happened to throw in, and all the buttons are in good places and work well. It comes with a case and headphones which both work well, and look dorky. I recomend this cassette player!
3 I'm Happy!
I recently purchased this player for my birthday as a gift to myself and I am so pleased with it that I actually just got done ordering another one as a back up, just incase I break my first one.
Very Happy, I love the Auto-Reverse feature because I listen to a lot of tapes at work and it saves me from having to stop my work to flip the tape over when side one has finished.
Wonderful unit, and reasonably priced, Great for the Audio Book fan.
4 Great cassette player, but poor TV reception
This is a great lightweight cassette player, but if you want to listen to TV and/or radio be prepared to be disappointed. It is not as good as the older Sony model WMFX-281.
