Aldi Specialbuys - Cassette Boombox Review (8 Jun 17)

The Aldi supermarket chain (including online) in the UK is selling a new 'boombox' for fathers' day 2017. For £29.99 you get a cassette recorder, MP3 player, Bluetooth speaker and radio....but just how good (or bad) is it?

Extra Info -
1) Extra Testing revealed this to be a Mono device. Both speakers function, however they play the same audio as one another. All the recording and playback features are monaural (including through the 3.5mm headphone socket).
2) Music File Types- The files I tried were 320Kbps MP3s.

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[TheBitGuy]

It looks like this is just a mabye slight improvement over the boombox I tested on my channel last year. It was also mono just like this one, probably made by the same company in China.

[Techmoan]

There's a bit of information in the video description text box you may find useful.

[Hster]

Big fan of the show...I am an actual Aldi Store Manager and I saw this product in store today as I was walking the special product tables. I hate to sound like a corporate cliche but I feel cool as hell you showing one of our products on the finest tech show out there. Good on you TM. I am ashamed to say however, we dropped the ball not selling cassettes to go with. We'd have sold the lot! TAKE IT APART! TAKE IT APART! TAKE IT APART!

[Nostalgianerd]

When you said "piece of plastic" for that portable cassette player. I was fairly certain you were about to say "piece of sh*t".... would have been apt in either case.

[RoyStricko]

Recording off the radio! don't you know that Home Taping Is Killing Music...

[usagijojo]

That tape player would be good for Halloween music. Make it extra creepy and spooky.

[fellipec]

Looks like something my dad would use to play music while making barbecue.

[KamZero]

MONO!!??!! With 2 speakers, would it have been too hard to do stereo FFS?

[aurelioemilianomaltesmunoz]

It is weird watching instant videos of techmoan

[AndersEngerJensen]

Haha, wow! That was quite a surprise. My cassette should not sound like this no, but glad to see that it kinda re-adjusted itself after a while. :)

And thanks, I've just sold out the remaining ones today, great advertising. 😃👍🏼👍🏼

[Spodlude]

I live next door to an Aldi in the UK, just popped in and picked one up, good for BBC radio 4 in the kitchen!

[advancedflea]

I will admit that I chuckled a little too much when he called the BBC "Gits" lmao

[impossible]

It's wholely bizarre and mediocre, but somehow attractive. Like my last blind date.

[hifismiffy]

There's nothing like quality and here it is - nothing like quality !!

[paulgascoigne]

I was half expecting the 'crinkle crinkle squeak.. chew chew chew' which usually follows the wow and flutter. in my head I was cast back to the time in my teens where you leap up from the bed to hit stop and save your cassette before its ruined lol

[zacharywolf]

There was so much flutter in that recording that I was expecting it to sprout wings and join its butterfly brethren

[VonGwinner]

It's interesting to see companies coming out with new cheap shortwave radios.... it can be a fun diversion as a hobby despite the internet giving you access to most of the stations. It's nice to see that it looks to be better than the super-trashy QFX boombox as well.... if these came to the US I would probably pick one up for fun.

[tassietv]

Love the new outro, really shows new viewers what techmoan is all about. Best channel on you tube!

[cjc]

At first play, cassette sounds like the wow/flutter from old 1970s educational films!

[stevemaherart]

Your idea of "rushed" is way above the level of other youtubers, great video. So spoiled with 3 techmoan videos in one week.