GE was one of the few companies offering a solid portable stereo cassette recorder for an affordable price. While is wasn’t particularly rich in features, it did have all the basics: separate left & volume controls; stereo switch; “digital” tape counter; signal strength/record level/battery meter; the forgotten neon orange square to aid in marking tape position.
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This was the first boombox I even owned. A solid unit. The only drawback – when recording from the radio, the only way to listen to what you were recording was switching on the monitor – which only had two settings, loud and louder. The sound was decent with the paper speakers.