We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Everything old eventually becomes new again, and there's probably no better example of that than the humble cassette tape. The format was ...

We Are Rewind is a French hi-fi company that burst on the scene a few years ago when it released the WE-001, a portable cassette tape player designed for today’s listeners. Unlike Walkmans from the ...

Don’t have a copy of Pink Floyd’s iconic Dark Side of the Moon in your collection? Or, even if you do, then here’s something different: An exclusive version of the album on cassette and a branded ...

Audio cassettes were all the rage in the '80s, with the compact tapes outselling vinyl in the first half of the decade. With the rise of the portable Walkman, the cassette held onto popularity through ...

Sound quality is, to some extent, in the ear of the beholder. The qualities you prioritize and crave may be wildly different than those of a person standing alongside you, meaning making strict ...

Japanese consumer electronics company Maxell, known for its high-performance chromium metal cassettes during its 80s zenith, has now released a modern update to the portable cassette player. This ...

Modern music services are all about convenience, but sometimes having every album ever at the touch of your fingertips leaves you with choice paralysis. If you’d rather bump your next mixtape or ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The game is inspired by the classics, but it has a perspective-shifting twist. The game is inspired by the ...

If you've ever been intrigued by the mystery of a dusty cassette you found in a thrift shop—or if you're just looking for a new time-sink—you have to check out Intertapes, a website that digitizes ...

In a new take on a technology from the 1960s, this year, researchers created a cassette tape that uses DNA instead of iron oxide to encode information on a plastic tape. It can hold a phenomenal ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient, and relatively low-quality in terms of sound quality — ...

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