For someone whose portable listening career began with MP3 players, sitting and watching that cassette rewind felt like an eternity. Still, I soon began to appreciate the therapeutic whirring sound, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It's as easy to roll your eyes at the cassette trend. Just as easy as it was to roll your eyes at vinyl ...

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 ...

Coming this fall for $179, FiiO’s first-ever portable CD player supports Bluetooth, balanced headphone-out, and USB digital audio playback. FiiO is turning back the clock on portable audio playback ...

An umbrella term for a variety of handheld devices that play back audio, video or both. Today, every smartphone is a portable media player; however, prior to the smartphone explosion in the 2007-2012 ...

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 ...