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Summary: Huh?
Review: The sound quality on this this is terrible! I can barely understand what anybody says.I'm annoyed by all of the voice prompts and having to wait for them before hearing my messages. "m-e-s-s-a-g-e----t-w-o----r-e-c-e-i-v-e-d-----o-n"... I just wish I hadn't thrown the receipt away. :-( has been reliable, and have seen over 20 messages stored on it.
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Summary: Do I really sound like this?
Review: The TAM 100 is fine as a digital answering machine. The only flaw, quite an annoying one too, is that all recordings sound robotic. I can't recognize my friend's voice because he sounds like HAL 9000 while I sound like Robby the robot. If you don't mind being a ghost in the machine, this piece is fine.
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Summary: No wall mount and sound quality not very good
Review: The TAM-100 doesn't mount on the wall. I was hoping to mount this unit on the wall (actually backsplash) in my kitchen so i could reserve counter space. Also, as other reviewers have said, the sound quality is not very good. I'm sticking to my old Panasonic tape unit until I can find a unit with at least the same level of quality.
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Summary: awful!
Review: This answering machine is very frustrating. Ours makes the first 10 seconds of a message so quiet you have to strain to make anything out. Good luck figuring out who's calling. All you get is the last half of the message. I am extremely frustrated by it and trying to find something better.... All in all, a big disappointment from Sony.
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Summary: Great Affordabe Answering Machine
Review: This is the first answering machine I ever bought and I am VERY impressed with it. After reading these other reviews about the sound quality, I wonder if mine, which came from Kmart, has a revised sound chip as my messages sound GREAT and I can tell who is who when my friends leave messages. The ONLY thing I hate about this machine is that if there is a power outage, you have to reset the time which isn't too horrible as it will remember all the messages on it. You can selectively delete and keep any messages you want. The guided voice setup is a male voice and very easy to understand. I was going to go with a GE until I heard the fast talking chick that did all the voice stuff on it and immediately hated it. The TAM-100 also has a double-digit counter so you will know if you have more than 9 messages unlike most of the AT&T answering machines I looked at and it has really nice remote message listening capabilities. I HIGHLY recommend the Sony TAM-100 to anyone.
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Summary: Unsecure Mailboxes
Review: This product is easy to use and set up, but there is a flaw. There is only one passcode to check your messages form a remote phone. This allows any one who has the passcode to listen to all three mailboxes. This makes it unsecure for privacy.
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Summary: Sony should be able to do better than this for sound quality
Review: We own and have owned several Sony products over the years, andthis is the first one that I can recall that we're returning to thestore where we bought it. The sound quality on this Tam-100 is quite literally abysmal. Someone recently got me a "talking pen" as a gift that you can record your voice on-and it sounds better than this answering machine. I would like to know what the chip set is that processes this horrible sound reproduction so that I can possibly avoid it in the future. Do all or most digital answering machines have this similar flaws? We could possibly pay more for better quality.
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Summary: Yuck!
Review: when I bought this machine I liked the ability to have it beep regularly to let you know there are messages to be heard, but I soon discovered the sound quality was very poor... I could not understand people at all when I called in by remote control, and also the playback volume by remote control was very low... even max volume standing at the machine was weak compared to any other answering machine I have owned.
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Summary: VERY BAD SOUND QUALITY
Review: While I was dazzled by the small, sharp appearance of the machine, I found the sound quality to be by far the absolute worse of the three that I bought and tested. The sound was so bad that it was intolerable.
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Summary: Poor sound quality, won't shutoff when telephone answered.
Review: With the exception of two major problems, this would be a good telephone answering machine for home use. The sound quality is absolutely horrible. It is nearly impossible to record a custom announcement message that callers can understand, and recorded messages left by callers are often garbled and also difficult to understand. The real problem for us is that when a phone call is answered from an extension phone while the answering machine is either performing it's announcement, or receiving a caller's message, this answering machine won't shut off. Having to ask the caller to hold on (If they can understand you over the garbled noise of the recorded announcement, while you run to the answering machine to turn it off is a real pain... especially when you can't turn it off in such a situation. The only remedy we've come up with is to unplug the machine in order to accept the call and carry on a conversation.
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