Sony Walkman WM-FX290 Personal Cassette Player

Another Fine Sony Product

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Pros: Battery efficiency, tuner quality, size/weight, low price

Cons: Useless weather band, fiddly radio presets

Bottom Line:
For this middle-aged listener this has been an excellent purchase with great sound quality to boot, and very battery-efficient Read More

The Sony WM-FX290- Good Things Still Come in Small Packages.

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Pros: Small size, long battery life, lots of features.

Cons: Consolidated buttons/features.

Bottom Line:
I definitely recommend the WM-FX290. It’s lightweight, reasonably priced, and affordable to operate. I slip mine into my jacket pocket each morning and enjoy it on my daily walk. Read More

SONY Walkman WM-FX290 Works Well, Some Useless Features

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Pros: Pretty good design, nice style, main features work well

Cons: It has a bunch of useless features

Bottom Line:
Nice simple product for Walkman fans at a reasonable price. Read More

Good Player

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Pros: nice size, good features and the battery lasts

Cons: not the same layout as the old Sony FX281 Read More

OK

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Pros: best mechanical non-auto-reverse player

Cons: bad tape window, odd door opening, some periodic cellphone noise Read More

Sony WM-FX290

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Pros: Not many to be found. The audio is good.

Cons: Two batteries are better than one as found here. Radio tuner is crap at best. Read More

Sony walkman wm-fx290

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Pros: Yes its slimmer lighter to carry but?????????? [see below]

Cons: The tv part stinks Read More

Bad Reception on this Walkman based on Local Reception

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Pros: Has TV/FM/AM and weather reception. Good tape playback.

Cons: Overloaded FM reception and Poor AM reception. TV and Weather is ok. Read More