Forget about Spotify and other streaming services. Physical media is back, and this cassette player brings tapes into the 21st century.

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 ...

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 ...

Old formats never die – they just get re-invented for modern-day use – like the Cassette MP3 player. Yes, cassette shaped, but SD card-powered, which gives you the best of both worlds. You can listen ...

Before smartphones streaming music to wireless speakers there were boomboxes. Before pocket-friendly Digital Audio Players or even portable CD players, there was the Walkman. And before playlists, ...

Sturdy aluminum case. Great sound. No tapes eaten after more than a year of testing. USB-C rechargeable. Bluetooth compatibility. No auto-stop on rewind or fast-forward, which leads to a terrifying ...

Like the Mobiblue Cassette MP3 Player we mentioned yesterday, the Abe Bluetooth Stereo Cassette (BT 80C) crams new tech in an old package. It’s just an audio streamer, so if you’re using a Bluetooth ...

That isn’t a line from an ’80s Japan-panic flick. It’s a (slightly adapted) post at Tapeheads, an online forum for cassette tape enthusiasts. Tanashin is a Japanese audio hardware company. Since the ...

Cassette players and tapes are fertile hacking ground. One reason is that their electromechanical and analog nature provides easy ways to fiddle with their operation. For example, slow down the motor ...