Exploring the history of portable music, from the first reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes to the colossal influence of modern ...

“Early Walkman users are quoted in newspapers as ... “For those people, cassette tapes came along at the right time. But I also think cassettes helped create the lo-fi aesthetic because ...

along with the same tape-to-MP3 recording features. Best pre-owned cassette player If you peruse enthusiast forums like the r/cassetteculture subreddit, the general consensus is that a second-hand ...

Similarly, in the U.S. 2022 sales of albums on cassette tape jumped by 28% to 440,000. That's up from 343,000 in 2021, according to the U.S. 2022 Luminate Year-End Music Report. Before streaming ...

As soon as commercial recordings on cassette began to proliferate ... The progenitor of the digital music player, the tape-based Walkman was extremely popular during the 1980s.

One must have achieved a certain age in order to remember cassette tapes and what made them so special. But that doesn’t mean ...

Cassette tapes have made a comeback ... Pop that plastic box satisfyingly into a cassette player - perhaps a classic Sony Walkman or your granddad's car stereo - press play, and away you go.

This solid-looking update of the classic Walkman form factor doesn’t quite match up to the technical wonders of the earlier era, when players could be literally the same size as a cassette case ...

Retrospekt makes the CP-81 Portable Cassette Player ($100), a Walkman-like cassette player ... You can also buy cassette tapes at the site. But those feel new. For a real blast from the past ...