--- product_id: 229448338 title: "AIWA BBTC-550 Portable Cassette Radio, Bluetooth, CD, USB" brand: "aiwa" price: "279650CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 category: "Aiwa" url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/229448338-aiwa-bbtc-550-portable-cassette-radio-bluetooth-cd-usb store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Cassette player & recorder w/ Auto-Stop Stereo speakers, 3600W output Bluetooth + USB + AUX connectivity AIWA BBTC-550 Portable Cassette Radio, Bluetooth, CD, USB **Brand:** aiwa **Price:** 279650CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📻 Elevate your audio game—where retro cool meets modern convenience! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** AIWA BBTC-550 Portable Cassette Radio, Bluetooth, CD, USB by aiwa - **How much does it cost?** 279650CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/229448338-aiwa-bbtc-550-portable-cassette-radio-bluetooth-cd-usb) ## Best For - aiwa enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted aiwa brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Japanese CD Tech:** Experience crisp CD playback powered by trusted Japanese engineering for reliable sound quality. - • **Compact & Portable:** Lightweight 2kg design with built-in stereo speakers—take your nostalgia anywhere without compromise. - • **Retro Meets Modern:** Seamlessly play and record cassettes while streaming via Bluetooth or USB—vintage vibes with 21st-century convenience. - • **Versatile Media Hub:** Supports CD, cassette, MP3 playback, plus AUX input—your all-in-one soundtrack solution for work, home, or travel. - • **Auto-Stop Cassette Recorder:** Protect your tapes with smart auto-stop recording that prevents overrun and tape damage. ## Overview The AIWA BBTC-550 is a portable, multi-format audio player combining cassette recording with Bluetooth, CD, USB, and AUX inputs. Featuring stereo speakers and auto-stop cassette recording, it offers versatile playback and recording options in a compact 2kg design. Perfect for professionals craving nostalgic sound with modern connectivity, it delivers a unique blend of vintage charm and contemporary functionality. ## Description From the manufacturer Latest generation AIWA cassette radio The feeling of life with the latest technology. Cassettes, CDs and Bluetooth in one boombox. Aiwa BBTC-550 Cassette Radio Two colours to choose from! Discover Aiwa's new cassette radio, your favorite audio brand forever. The return of the brand brings products to the market that makes us invaded that nostalgia in the past and cause us to retrieve those cassettes we had already saved, but never forgotten. Portable cassette radio with CD player, USB and Bluetooth 5.0 connection. Cassette player and recorder with Auto-Stop USB port for MP3 music playback AUX IN input (3.5 mm) and headphone jack (3.5 mm). PLL FM radio with 40 programmable station presets Highlights Bluetooth 5.0 connection CD reader Cassettes Player USB port AUX IN input Variety of players. Bluetooth Aiwa Boombox with Bluetooth 5.0. Enjoy all the playlists you have on your Android or iOS smartphone. Easy to connect and much easier to play CD All your CDs on this portable CD radio! Enjoy your entire collection in this compact Aiwa CD player. Cassette All 80's are back to stay with AIWA. Rescue your stored cassette collection and rewind to enjoy all those cassettes in splendid quality. USB, AUX IN and headphone jack. Not only does it play CD's. Read your MP3 files, play external devices via AUX IN and listen to music via headphones. Technical Specifications Review: Good versatile little portable player .. - Great little player of almost any media maybe a tad overpriced ... also nice sound ... not HIFI quality but decent enough for a small portable .. Definitely recommend Review: Wrong plug, poor recordings, and broken on arrival - Aiwa BBTC-550BK Portable Radio with CD - I got this as I needed something with CD, stereo tape record and aux input. My son and I want to do olde 1980s tapes from vinyl and CD... it actually works for that, but I have some serious issues with it: First thing I noticed is the European two-pronged power plug on it. If you've no other "figure of 8" cable you're stuffed, unless you have a pack of batteries or can correctly and safely fit a UK plug. If not get a qualified person to refit it for you as it's not worth the risk. Should have come with a UK plug attached, I thought that was UK law these days? On inspection before I used it I saw that the little switch tab inside the tape deck was broken. I took a picture as best I could, and you can clearly see it's all skew. It's actually hanging loose. It's that little button that prevents a pre-recorded cassette tape from being recorded over, it stops you pressing the Record button? It doesn't work as the little switch inside is bust. You can freely press the Record button at any time, thus risking erasing your cherished tape collection. Not happy, and I've not even powered it up yet. So I thought I'd test it anyway... It's a cheap and cheerful thing but works ok. The sound is as you'd expect from something of this size. You can open the CD lid at any time, playing or not it doesn't lock down. If you open during play it stops playing but the disk is still spinning, gradually slowing to eventually stop. Not liking that, for the sake of damaging the disk or cutting unsuspecting fingers on the edges of a spinning CD. So tried test recording onto a blank tape: From the built in CD it records easy enough, and the recorded sound quality is ok I suppose, not the best. It's really quite hissy and muffled, so perhaps choice of tape might be a factor? I'm using Maxell things that were bought new a few weeks back. Still not great sound from it though. It did improve a small amount with some Fuji tapes we have, so that'll need some testing to find tapes that give the best, but still pretty awful. From Aux input from a record deck it actually sounds better than recording from CD! Figure that out. So for us that's so far the only winning factor, we can record from vinyl and it sounds quite good-ish. Record from Aux from another tape player: It sounded pretty good through the speakers as we played the external tape into the Aux, but the recording of it was awful again, worse than recording from the CD. Tried all sorts of levels and sound settings on the external tape player so that might be experimentation ongoing; trying to get a decent tape to tape recording. So overall? Surprised that Aiwa have released something of such sub-standard quality, in so many ways. It arrived broken, which I've no doubt was most likely broken before it left the factory as there's no way can that little button get broken off in transit, it's sold in the UK with a Euro plug on it, and the recording sound quality overall is appalling. My son reckons to fight on with it, and be careful not to press the Record button when you don't want to, and experiment with recordings to see what works best and maybe try a few different brands of blank tapes. In the meantime though I just can't find myself giving it any recommendation. For the price of over eighty quid, and the brand Aiwa, I was expecting something that at least worked sort of. I sadly feel like I've been duped. ## Features - Cassette player and recorder with Auto-Stop - Cassette recorder from any function mode. - USB port for playback of MP3 files. - CD player with Japanese technology - BBTC-550MG - Portable FM radio tuner and AUX input ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B08GSG116Q | | Audio Output Mode | Stereo | | Best Sellers Rank | 92,809 in Electronics & Photo ( See Top 100 in Electronics & Photo ) 122 in Boomboxes | | Bluetooth support? | Yes | | Box Contents | Stereo, Mains Lead, Documentation | | Brand | Aiwa | | Brand Name | Aiwa | | Colour | Metallic Grey | | Compatible Devices | MP3 Player, Smartphone, Tablet | | Connectivity technology | Auxiliary , Bluetooth, USB | | Country of Origin | China | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 310 Reviews | | Item Dimensions | 23 x 29.8 x 13.8 centimetres | | Item Type Name | Portable Cassette Radio | | Item Weight | 2 Kilograms | | Item dimensions L x W x H | 23 x 29.8 x 13.8 centimetres | | Manufacturer | Aiwa | | Manufacturer Part Number | BBTC-550BK | | Model Number | BBTC-550RD | | Network Connectivity Technology | Auxiliary, Bluetooth, USB | | Number of Speakers | 2 | | Power Source | Battery Powered | | Power source | Battery Powered | | Product Warranty | 12 Month | | Speaker Type | Stereo | | Speaker type | Stereo | | Speakers Included | 2 Speakers | | Style Name | Portable | | Supported Audio Format | CD, Cassette, MP3 CD | | Supported Standards | CD, Cassette, MP3 | | Surround Sound Channel Configuration | 2.0 | | Wattage | 3600 | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Aiwa - **Colour:** Metallic Grey - **Connectivity technology:** Auxiliary, Bluetooth, USB - **Item dimensions L x W x H:** 23 x 29.8 x 13.8 centimetres - **Speaker type:** Stereo ## Images ![AIWA BBTC-550 Portable Cassette Radio, Bluetooth, CD, USB - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61x7Fc53a1L.jpg) ![AIWA BBTC-550 Portable Cassette Radio, Bluetooth, CD, USB - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61MomqxYZ2L.jpg) ![AIWA BBTC-550 Portable Cassette Radio, Bluetooth, CD, USB - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61slRTQSKIL.jpg) ![AIWA BBTC-550 Portable Cassette Radio, Bluetooth, CD, USB - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61PFlBcQ-AL.jpg) ![AIWA BBTC-550 Portable Cassette Radio, Bluetooth, CD, USB - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61-Isifn-HL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good versatile little portable player .. *by M***M on 19 December 2025* Great little player of almost any media maybe a tad overpriced ... also nice sound ... not HIFI quality but decent enough for a small portable .. Definitely recommend ### ⭐ Wrong plug, poor recordings, and broken on arrival - Aiwa BBTC-550BK Portable Radio with CD *by E***E on 25 June 2024* I got this as I needed something with CD, stereo tape record and aux input. My son and I want to do olde 1980s tapes from vinyl and CD... it actually works for that, but I have some serious issues with it: First thing I noticed is the European two-pronged power plug on it. If you've no other "figure of 8" cable you're stuffed, unless you have a pack of batteries or can correctly and safely fit a UK plug. If not get a qualified person to refit it for you as it's not worth the risk. Should have come with a UK plug attached, I thought that was UK law these days? On inspection before I used it I saw that the little switch tab inside the tape deck was broken. I took a picture as best I could, and you can clearly see it's all skew. It's actually hanging loose. It's that little button that prevents a pre-recorded cassette tape from being recorded over, it stops you pressing the Record button? It doesn't work as the little switch inside is bust. You can freely press the Record button at any time, thus risking erasing your cherished tape collection. Not happy, and I've not even powered it up yet. So I thought I'd test it anyway... It's a cheap and cheerful thing but works ok. The sound is as you'd expect from something of this size. You can open the CD lid at any time, playing or not it doesn't lock down. If you open during play it stops playing but the disk is still spinning, gradually slowing to eventually stop. Not liking that, for the sake of damaging the disk or cutting unsuspecting fingers on the edges of a spinning CD. So tried test recording onto a blank tape: From the built in CD it records easy enough, and the recorded sound quality is ok I suppose, not the best. It's really quite hissy and muffled, so perhaps choice of tape might be a factor? I'm using Maxell things that were bought new a few weeks back. Still not great sound from it though. It did improve a small amount with some Fuji tapes we have, so that'll need some testing to find tapes that give the best, but still pretty awful. From Aux input from a record deck it actually sounds better than recording from CD! Figure that out. So for us that's so far the only winning factor, we can record from vinyl and it sounds quite good-ish. Record from Aux from another tape player: It sounded pretty good through the speakers as we played the external tape into the Aux, but the recording of it was awful again, worse than recording from the CD. Tried all sorts of levels and sound settings on the external tape player so that might be experimentation ongoing; trying to get a decent tape to tape recording. So overall? Surprised that Aiwa have released something of such sub-standard quality, in so many ways. It arrived broken, which I've no doubt was most likely broken before it left the factory as there's no way can that little button get broken off in transit, it's sold in the UK with a Euro plug on it, and the recording sound quality overall is appalling. My son reckons to fight on with it, and be careful not to press the Record button when you don't want to, and experiment with recordings to see what works best and maybe try a few different brands of blank tapes. In the meantime though I just can't find myself giving it any recommendation. For the price of over eighty quid, and the brand Aiwa, I was expecting something that at least worked sort of. I sadly feel like I've been duped. ### ⭐⭐ Cassette player becomes inoperable after playing just 4 tape albums. *by M***Y on 12 April 2024* If you're just looking for a good portable Bluetooth c.d. player with Aux and U.S.B. connections go ahead. But if you're looking to play tapes old and new don't bother. After four cassette albums play -first, there was no sound at all and after pressing stop and resuming playback it played the cassette on triple speed, making Black Sabbath sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks playing metal. Overall a good sounding c.d. player, particularly when connected to auxiliary speakers but utterly useless for tapes! ## Frequently Bought Together - AIWA BBTC-550 Portable Cassette Radio, Bluetooth, CD, USB - Maxell Ur 90 Normal Bias Blank Audio Recording Cassette Tape, Low Noise, 90 Minute Recording Time, 5 Pack - GALLUNOPTIMAL UR90 audio cassettes 90 min. 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