There’s an old saying that good ideas never go out of fashion but is that strictly true? Those boombox cassette players that many of us carried around in the 1980s eventually went out of fashion. They ...
The WE-001 Duran Duran Special Edition cassette player has been designed to capture the band’s iconic style, as well as the ...
The appeal of this type of format-nostalgia is shared by We Are Rewind, the French company who (with a little help from a cabal of seasoned engineers who worked on portable cassette players back in ...
Cassette tapes might not have the largest capacity or best sound quality, but they ooze retro appeal, as seen in the recent resurgence of the Sony Walkman. Tapping into that hipster market is the ...
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6 retro portable audio items we miss
Old portable music tech felt sturdy. You could drop your player while on roller blades and not worry about a costly cracked ...
We’re just about old enough to remember the era when cassettes were the chief music listening format. Those little plastic rectangles which housed miniature tape spools were quite a finicky and often ...
An curved arrow pointing right. Inspired by The Fine Bros, we gave kids an old cassette/CD boom box to see if they could put a cassette tape inside of it. They had a little trouble. Produced by Sam ...
A decade ago I was moderately surprised to find that companies like Sony were showing off portable music players at CES, because I figured most people had moved on to using smartphones to listen to ...
Duran Duran’s 2000 album Pop Trash gets a cassette-only reissue alongside We Are Rewind’s WE-001 Special Edition player, ...
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