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

Younger consumers are being beguiled by physical media and buying into vinyl, cassettes and now CDs. FiiO has just launched ...

Or perhaps you recently came across a dust-laden collection of tapes during a clearout, and want to relive your youth. Or maybe the thought of a portable mechanical music player simply appeals to your ...

Companies like We Are Rewind, Fiio, and others offer updated designs for new cassette and CD players, with some additional ...

Case in point: MP3 players. Music downloaded and saved to iPods or MP3 players used to be the default way to listen to music. Although iPods are no longer around, MP3 players have been making a ...

Despite cassette tapes’ status as a dinosaur ... of the Sony Walkman portable cassette player in the early 1980s, freed listeners to bring their music with them. It also expanded the ...

Stereo 8 was an 8-track version of the 4-track Muntz Autostereo, the first commercial music player for a car. Stereo 8 allowed two stereo recordings on the same tape providing a similar experience ...

But true variable-speed players make better synths, because it’s so much easier to change the speed. You can make music from anything you can record on tape, including monotony. [schollz] made a ...