Digital music players and smartphones pretty much caused an extinction event for portable analog audio. But RecordingTheMasters is banking on a comeback for tapes with the launch of Mystik portable ...

Tokyo-based collector Junichi Matsuzaki has spent more than two decades amassing retro audio units. Here he lets us in ...

Everyone knows that vinyl LPs have experienced a resurgence in recent years, but it seems that the humble analog cassette tape may also be due for a comeback. With that in mind, a French entrepreneur ...

The FiiO CP13 cassette player goes on sale this week at £99 / $129. 2024 benefits include USB-C charging, 13-hour battery life and an all-analog circuit for an enhanced yet classic sound. From the ...

Tape cassettes have been making a surprising (if small) comeback in recent years, with a growing number of musicians releasing albums in the format. Sure, they don’t have the same level of sound ...

Last month Maxell introduced a new portable cassette player for the Japanese market that combines retro features (it’s… a portable tape cassette player) with modern touches (like a rechargeable ...

The It’s OK looks to cash in on your Walkman nostalgia The It’s OK looks to cash in on your Walkman nostalgia So while the It’s OK does the usual tape things, like playing cassettes or letting you ...

Play tapes on-the-go with FiiO’s $99 transparent portable audio cassette player with USB-C charging and 13 hour battery life. In the past several years, listening to vinyl records has re-inserted ...

The Sony Walkman was launched on I July, 1979 and was a massive breakthrough in personal music listening. We’d never seen anything like it and I remember seeing the first Walkman and thinking that I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's as easy to roll your eyes at the cassette trend. Just as easy as it was to roll your eyes at vinyl 15 years ago, easier ...

Have you been relieved of your iPod lately? Fellow victims, I have the perfect anti-theft device: an early Sony Walkman. I didn’t need more reasons to love the Walkman portable cassette player and its ...

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