Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...

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Move aside vinyl, another retro music format has spun back into the local spotlight. As emblematic to 1980s culture as the boom boxes and Sony Walkmans that played them, cassette tapes are back in ...

The streaming generation is trading Spotify for cassette tapes. But despite Gen Z’s obsession with all things vintage — from flip phones to Y2K fashion reboots like Ed Hardy and Von Dutch — the ...

Our Audio expert Chris Haslam gives his personal recommendation for buying a modern portable cassette or CD player ...

Cassette sales remain modest but have climbed in recent years. The British Phonographic Industry reported that UK cassette ...

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My previous daily driver was a 2000 VW Beetle that I inherited from my mom, and the only way to listen to pre-recorded music was by inserting a tape into the stereo. That prompted me to buy a few ...

Cassettes are portable and compact, unlike vinyls, but finding a way to play them nowadays is proving difficult. The streaming generation is trading Spotify for cassette tapes. But despite Gen Z’s ...