I bought this a few days ago, and the size of the GPX Cassette Player/Recorder is excellent.  The FM/AM Radio is EXCELLENT!  I mainly wanted it for the Cassette Recording.  It plays my old taped cassettes that were recorded years ago beautifully.  My current Recorded messages on this GPX are not very loud, but I can carefully hear the talking.  It Does have a lot of Static, probably picking up the moving of the tape - background static. This makes it very difficult to hear, with the extra static noise.  The volume of the talking could be louder, but it does not go louder than the static sound. I wished the Voice Recording was better.  It is OK, but I wish it was clearer and louder for the voice recording and not the static background.