We _did_ listen to tape cassettes _for the audio quality,_ back in the days when portability was a multinational-branded cassette player. Quality varied on account of the type of cassette used. We bought pre-recorded cassettes, made our own cassettes from the vinyl albums, and cassettes that we bought, owned, or borrowed. It wasn’t perfect (what is?), but we really enjoyed creating, and listening to music on cassettes. And yes, listening to a whole album by an artist does give one a greater perspective of process he, or she was going through at the time.
Better buy a Vintage walkman and enjoy the good sound quality, the nostalgia and power of music. This we are rewind product is kinda good for the cassette culture but sadly it sounds like crap. 😢
I got into cassettes last year as a sort of analogue Pomodoro timer for random tasks. And since you can find all kinds of incredible international music out thrifting (for almost nothing), often times with incredible musicianship that's not available online, it's been fun way to go treasure hunting and stay on task for things. Set a task, click it in, press play & enjoy the wobble wobble 😅. Take a break on Side B!
Didn't Techmoan do a video about the internal cassette mechanisms - and every manufacturer uses the same really cheap and nasty mechanism with their own custom casing. If I remember you can buy the internal mechanism for about £1
I wish these players had rounded corners instead of these sharp ones. Back in the days, it was reasonable to produce devices like this with rounded shapes: thanks to the edge-less and sharpless profile, they did not disturb/harm your cloths, your pockets, your skin.
yeah but new age companies thinking is that when they going back to old school they go a bit to far back with design , why not a really modern looking player but plays cassette , meaning looking modern but all functions are without touch screens. that's all they have to do and any company can start back a retro line of products but of course that will make them look like they not looking ahead , one they some will use there brain and make a device so spectacular it would remain no matter where tech goes.
The question might be...when and where do you listen to cassettes? If you are in a really quiet room, you can notice cassettes noise. If you're already in an environment where there's a lot of background noise....you can enjoy listening to music. Thanks
Fiio has brand new player out now as well (cp13). It doesn't have Bluetooth or recording (recording on WAR isn't very good either), but has less wow&flutter and is slightly smaller. It is similarly priced and might be better available depending on your location. For anyone considering recording: there has only ever been few pocket-sized recorders ever that were able to record above dictation quality, and they are expensive even if broken. Find an old boombox or bigger.
i used to watch your retro camera reviews when i was younger! i remember you had gone on some kind of extended hiatus for a year or two and kinda forgot about this channel, but today your name popped into my head and i'm surprised and happy to see you're back making videos again! keep it up!
Hey there! Thanks, I went and got a real job as a pilot and then decided I’d do this on the side. So happy you came back! I just like sharing my interests and small tidbits on the channel, and I couldn’t afford film anymore.
Get a Walkman D6C. Don't have to worry about sound quality with that thing. ALL modern cassette decks unfortunately suffer from the same issue, they use the same tanashin mechanism which is cheap and noisy. Mid range late 1990s walkmans sound way better so it's worth picking one up and fixing it.
Have you seen what the Walkman Pro goes for now??? OBSCENE! Wish I'd got mine replaced on insurance rather then getting a Pro-Logic processer now, but, you know, hindsight...
@domfjbrown75 Yep, because you're looking for them in the wrong places. Got my mint d6c for cheap, provided I had to replace all the internal rubber and some basic maintainance. Got it for $300 usd a few months ago from jp sites
As a person in their 60's... contrary to many comments below.. I have an old walkman which works perfectly, and one of these WE ARE REWIND players and a Marshall speaker like yours ... I find cassettes containing MORE sound than a CD.. fuller, richer, warmer.. and I like BOTH results on Walkman and WE ARE REWINDplayers. I don't hear the white noise as much as you do. I am very pleased with my purchase, the audio quality, the look and feel of the WE ARE REWIND players. Analog sounds better, period.
if i honestly had the brian power to put into development a cassette player under a retro line section. First of the player must look modern while acting retro, so a players would have smooth corners to slide in an dout of pockets , cause ei want the buyers to use it all the time, buttons to press must have a solid press, Bluetooth must be on the list, audio out must be on the list, a built in mic on certain models for people who like to record, a detachable strap so you can pull out of pocket and hold on wrist, front facing door must be transparent glass with a think border so the one can see the tape being played, as as its retro a section where you buy retro skins so you can have a nostaglic look etc. also be able to play radio , this section would be digital simple because it works better. that's how I would of start
That "narrative" is why we used to lie down on the shag carpet, and listen to an LP - a WHOLE LP, without doing ANYTHING else. An LP at home was an EVENT. We now live in a distractable, ADHD society. Just slow down and enjoy the ride, man!
Just curious, the ONE cassette you played, was it a studio recording or a mix tape? Was it purchased new or used? I would have loved to hear a larger sample size than 15 seconds of one mystery cassette.
its interesting ... shame it uses not so good tech inside compared to even really old stuff like the walkman 2 and later revisions showing how clever they were shrinking the size but at the same time improving the whole listening experience on the go ... shame ... still the music experience of going to the record store and getting the latest album and looking at the artwork getting ready to listen to it as well was very exciting ... i love the new way of getting/listening to music but i will be honest ... something seems missing with the experience .... anyway happy new year danny !
I gather there's like one Chinese OEM left making cassette tape mechanisms, and they're all super cheapified descendants of 80s/90s Japanese ones. They're mechanically complex enough and demand is low enough no one is investing any money into developing a modern high quality transport.
This takes me back, shopping for cassettes. If I’m honest it wont change how I listen as I’ve moved on from the ‘Walkman’. But man, I loved that thing back in the day
i always use a small dac and headphone amplifier (fiio) between an old cassette deck/walkman etc...and my cassette music sound like studio material! It really works very good!
It is a very nice looking portable cassette player. Did the pre-recorded tapes sound better than the first tape you showed? How long does the battery last? Man, I’d love to get that Phil Collins album on cassette ❤ great video, thanks for sharing 😊
Most prerecorded tapes were not only high quality sound, they had some excellent analogue machines to drive them. Just before digital CD came out, analogue, in every sector of Hi-fi, had a most reached a pinnacle of performance, so, like I started with initially, any tapes I could get a hold of, then I started getting TDK SA, tapes. These were constantly superior sound recording quality, next, TDK SAX. Finally, I found that DENON HD 100's were really good, it was such a shame how cassettes lost their crown to digital CD, but hey, such is tech.
1:45 - And you really, actually own it... It won't be vanished if the provider company ceases (in contrast, see e.g. streaming platforms). It won't diesappear if the publication agreement between the artist and the provider company is over or broken (vs. the diesappearing songs from the streaming platforms). You can reach them even if your internet connection fails. You can listening to them even in the mountains and in the forests where network coverage does not even exist. :D Physical copies are essential for fans: :) [sorry for my weak English]
I had a big tape collection when CDs came on the scene and there are a lot of obscure things I had that never turned up on CD or was very rare. I was about to consider this for the Bluetooth but if the sound is off maybe I need to rip them to digital instead to use on the go. I still have Fisher and Kenwood dual decks for home play. I am a fossil I guess.
it doesn't have a biasing switch, It can't even play type ii tapes. It shouldn't even be playing type i's, this thing is a useless crap mechanism not even suited for data tapes on a commodore 64 thrown in an aluminum case for some reason
@@WalnutSpice Ever used one of the cheaper late 90s Sony Walkmans like EX172 etc? They might have a bias switch, but it feels more like an EQ really. They seem to be pushing treble on normal setting and pushing bass/mids/mud on the type ii setting. this causes type ii to sound 'better' on normal setting. A type two on type ii setting usually sounds a bit muddy but ofc less hiss since the highs are cut. Even Sony had problems regarding biasing on their cheaper made in china models in the late 90s. to expect them to get it right today with probably even worse parts is a bit overblown. I doubt anybody will build a walkman as good as the top models of the last century anymore. They simply can't because they can't get the parts. We are stuck with gimmicky little machines until somebody invests a lot of money, designes and builds a high a end model and then sells them for probably way more than 1000$. Maybe sometime some DSP chip will come to the rescue, but that of course will not be pure analog anymore.
Nobody uses Dolby NR anymore. Dolby dosn't license it anymore and the chips are probably not even being produced anymore. They could of course just copy it and give it a different name....
Cassettes can sound great, but until the big manufacturers bring back the quality players, its very hard to get back into it. Vinyl doesn't have that problem, as quality players are out there and sound excellent, but records are way too expensive and the few pressing plants there are, are backed up with Taylor Swift new releases.
That is a major issue when it comes to cassettes. It is possible to get excellent results with cassettes as long as you have the following: (1) good quality cassette deck, (2) good quality portable, and (3) Name brand Type II or IV cassettes. It takes a while to set up everything when making a cassette, but the results are worth it. I did purchase pre-recorded cassettes for a time, but I found that I got better results by purchasing an LP and making my own tapes. The quality of pre-recorded cassettes often wasn't very good, although they did make some attempts to improve them toward the end of cassettes reign.
They can sound as good as CD. Just not on the "We Are Rewind" player. And probably not those old prerecorder type I tapes. And probably not through bluetooth.
i like the teenage engineering inspiration, great device... the bluetooth function is kind of funny but i just see it as unnecessary since it's messing with the analog cassette sound!
I think a factor is the bitrate used for MP3. MP3s encoded at 320kbps (the highest bitrate) or the highest VBR setting can sound very good. It's at the lower bitrate that sound quality suffers, although for some uses (such as audiobooks with one speaker) a lower bitrate is fine.
I have this and the FIio , they are good but to change the belts it’s far to hard to do and it would be better if they had removable batteries like older cassette players did. I also wish they had radio live older players had
But if a 30 year old EX walkman that's 1/3 the size, sounds remarkably better and costs less, why wouldn't you just do that? You can buy them with the belt already swapped easily enough for less money than a WAR brick, but it's really not that hard to do if you really had to. The record function is terrible and you wouldn't even want to use it past the first time.
@@Gajodareactividade Exactly why. All recordable portables are like that except for the Sony WM-D6C and WM-D3, though the D6C was much better. There were other good portables but they're not in the 'Walkman' size territory.
Like most people, you purchased a very low end cassette player(I don't mean brand) and also purchases a worn out cassette album that was recorded on a low end Type 1 cassette tape but don't get me wrong I made plenty of those kind of purchases also, until I purchased my first higher end Sony EX portable cassette player that 95% of people did not even know existed at the time, especially the ones that did not want a cassette player that cost $200 at the time when the average cassette Walkman's (SONY, JVC, Panasonic, Etc.) only cost about $20-$50, Sony EX Players even made worn out type 1 cassette tapes sound good but the real surprise came from Type 2 and 4 cassette tapes that were recorded with my higher end Sony ES deck with Dolby S from my higher end Sony ES CD Player, my later Sony EX Walkman even had Track Skip and Replay like my Sony ES Cassette Deck and now that Hi-Res audio has come out we can make even better sounding cassette recordings because the source is even more detailed
Does it record to tape via Bluetooth or is that only for speaker play? I wish the window was completely clear instead of a small circle so we could better see where the tape is when recording into it.
I need some urgent advice! There’s a sale tomorrow in my region and I have the chance to get Stanmore 2 at the same price as Acton 3? Which speaker would you suggest me? Please reply
Is Stanmore 2 that bad? I usually listen to a lot of hip-hop so was wondering what would be better as the bass is something I think would be useful for me. what do you think? I appericate the reply. Stanmore 3 is 80 euros more expensive than the 2 here.@@DannyPops
It's those kind of devices that ruin entirely the cassette listening experience.... Oh, about recording?? Well, any device with permament magnet erase head will be terrible... Cassettes can sound much better!!
Just wait till the Japanese giants Sony ,Sharp ,Sanyo pull outvtheir old drawings and get back to making Walkmans this WE ARE REWIND ,will wind up forever and the reason is just one ; OVERPRI,ED
Ridiculously overpriced with the minimal features it has . My 2003 Sony still works fine., has digital AM/FM , METAL /CHROME / NORMAL tape selectors / AVLS and Bass boost.
sorry dude but you saying you dont listen to it for the quality, you are speaking to audiophiles, people who love music and lyrics in a song don't care how nad it songs as long as they can hear the beat the lyrics they have to most fun... Stop speaking on an audio phile level speak from the pure enjoyment of music. a true audiophile would not listen to music on a device they will go to a live concert or show and listen to it.
These units will never be near the quality of the Sony, Aiwa, Panasonic Walkmans...save your money and reach the secondhand market if you got high quality tapes from the old days in your collection like SA-X, MA-R, Maxell MX, XL-II and play your tapes quality gear!!!
We _did_ listen to tape cassettes _for the audio quality,_ back in the days when portability was a multinational-branded cassette player. Quality varied on account of the type of cassette used. We bought pre-recorded cassettes, made our own cassettes from the vinyl albums, and cassettes that we bought, owned, or borrowed. It wasn’t perfect (what is?), but we really enjoyed creating, and listening to music on cassettes. And yes, listening to a whole album by an artist does give one a greater perspective of process he, or she was going through at the time.
Better buy a Vintage walkman and enjoy the good sound quality, the nostalgia and power of music. This we are rewind product is kinda good for the cassette culture but sadly it sounds like crap. 😢
A vintage Walkman would probably cost you a small fortune.
@@johnmc3862 I own several vintage walkman players and maybe your right, they're expensive but if you're lucky enough you can buy some affordable ones
@@johnmc3862 Then get a hifi tape deck instead and have an even better audio quality
I own one we are rewind cassette player and it sounds awesome
@@johnmc3862Don't buy a vintage Walkman as they are crap
but they're still cool for sure..
I bought one of these we are rewind players, its coming tomorrow. psyched.
It’s great some companies try to revive this medium. Cassettes have their own original ambience to them. Irreplaceable ❤
I got into cassettes last year as a sort of analogue Pomodoro timer for random tasks. And since you can find all kinds of incredible international music out thrifting (for almost nothing), often times with incredible musicianship that's not available online, it's been fun way to go treasure hunting and stay on task for things. Set a task, click it in, press play & enjoy the wobble wobble 😅. Take a break on Side B!
I love that! Thanks for sharing and watching :)
Didn't Techmoan do a video about the internal cassette mechanisms - and every manufacturer uses the same really cheap and nasty mechanism with their own custom casing. If I remember you can buy the internal mechanism for about £1
yup
I wish these players had rounded corners instead of these sharp ones. Back in the days, it was reasonable to produce devices like this with rounded shapes: thanks to the edge-less and sharpless profile, they did not disturb/harm your cloths, your pockets, your skin.
yeah but new age companies thinking is that when they going back to old school they go a bit to far back with design , why not a really modern looking player but plays cassette , meaning looking modern but all functions are without touch screens. that's all they have to do and any company can start back a retro line of products but of course that will make them look like they not looking ahead , one they some will use there brain and make a device so spectacular it would remain no matter where tech goes.
The question might be...when and where do you listen to cassettes?
If you are in a really quiet room, you can notice cassettes noise. If you're already in an environment where there's a lot of background noise....you can enjoy listening to music.
Thanks
Fiio has brand new player out now as well (cp13). It doesn't have Bluetooth or recording (recording on WAR isn't very good either), but has less wow&flutter and is slightly smaller. It is similarly priced and might be better available depending on your location.
For anyone considering recording: there has only ever been few pocket-sized recorders ever that were able to record above dictation quality, and they are expensive even if broken. Find an old boombox or bigger.
i used to watch your retro camera reviews when i was younger! i remember you had gone on some kind of extended hiatus for a year or two and kinda forgot about this channel, but today your name popped into my head and i'm surprised and happy to see you're back making videos again! keep it up!
Hey there! Thanks, I went and got a real job as a pilot and then decided I’d do this on the side. So happy you came back! I just like sharing my interests and small tidbits on the channel, and I couldn’t afford film anymore.
Cassettes on a good deck can sound quite good. Portables are a nice convenience but will never bring the best out of an analog format.
CASSETES are not a good option ANYMORE
Get a Walkman D6C. Don't have to worry about sound quality with that thing. ALL modern cassette decks unfortunately suffer from the same issue, they use the same tanashin mechanism which is cheap and noisy.
Mid range late 1990s walkmans sound way better so it's worth picking one up and fixing it.
Have you seen what the Walkman Pro goes for now??? OBSCENE! Wish I'd got mine replaced on insurance rather then getting a Pro-Logic processer now, but, you know, hindsight...
@domfjbrown75 Yep, because you're looking for them in the wrong places. Got my mint d6c for cheap, provided I had to replace all the internal rubber and some basic maintainance. Got it for $300 usd a few months ago from jp sites
CASSETES are not a good option ANYMORE
If the tape is recorded with Dolby noise reduction, white noise (hiss) is more noticeable when played on something that does not have Dolby.
As a person in their 60's... contrary to many comments below.. I have an old walkman which works perfectly, and one of these WE ARE REWIND players and a Marshall speaker like yours ... I find cassettes containing MORE sound than a CD.. fuller, richer, warmer.. and I like BOTH results on Walkman and WE ARE REWINDplayers. I don't hear the white noise as much as you do. I am very pleased with my purchase, the audio quality, the look and feel of the WE ARE REWIND players. Analog sounds better, period.
if i honestly had the brian power to put into development a cassette player under a retro line section. First of the player must look modern while acting retro, so a players would have smooth corners to slide in an dout of pockets , cause ei want the buyers to use it all the time, buttons to press must have a solid press, Bluetooth must be on the list, audio out must be on the list, a built in mic on certain models for people who like to record, a detachable strap so you can pull out of pocket and hold on wrist, front facing door must be transparent glass with a think border so the one can see the tape being played, as as its retro a section where you buy retro skins so you can have a nostaglic look etc. also be able to play radio , this section would be digital simple because it works better. that's how I would of start
That "narrative" is why we used to lie down on the shag carpet, and listen to an LP - a WHOLE LP, without doing ANYTHING else.
An LP at home was an EVENT. We now live in a distractable, ADHD society. Just slow down and enjoy the ride, man!
Just curious, the ONE cassette you played, was it a studio recording or a mix tape? Was it purchased new or used? I would have loved to hear a larger sample size than 15 seconds of one mystery cassette.
If you listen on a decent player it can sound much better than mp3.
its interesting ... shame it uses not so good tech inside compared to even really old stuff
like the walkman 2 and later revisions showing how clever they were shrinking the size
but at the same time improving the whole listening experience on the go ... shame ...
still the music experience of going to the record store and getting the latest album and
looking at the artwork getting ready to listen to it as well was very exciting ... i love the new
way of getting/listening to music but i will be honest ... something seems missing with
the experience .... anyway happy new year danny !
Happy New Year Carl! Thanks for watching and your insights.
I gather there's like one Chinese OEM left making cassette tape mechanisms, and they're all super cheapified descendants of 80s/90s Japanese ones. They're mechanically complex enough and demand is low enough no one is investing any money into developing a modern high quality transport.
This takes me back, shopping for cassettes. If I’m honest it wont change how I listen as I’ve moved on from the ‘Walkman’. But man, I loved that thing back in the day
i always use a small dac and headphone amplifier (fiio) between an old cassette deck/walkman etc...and my cassette music sound like studio material! It really works very good!
Want to share your dac/amplifier combo?
@@fty-ys4ni fiio q3 I have the previous version.. It's a dac and amplifier together. Then on the lowest settings.
@@kasperjr What is your choice of headphone/earphone?
@@fty-ys4ni always sennheiser momentum on ears of a sennheiser over ears if you prefer deep bass. prices around 200-300 euro/dollar
Cassette is already analogue, what is the DAC converting? A graphic equaliser is probably good addition.
It is a very nice looking portable cassette player. Did the pre-recorded tapes sound better than the first tape you showed? How long does the battery last? Man, I’d love to get that Phil Collins album on cassette ❤ great video, thanks for sharing 😊
Most prerecorded tapes were not only high quality sound, they had some excellent analogue machines to drive them. Just before digital CD came out, analogue, in every sector of Hi-fi, had a most reached a pinnacle of performance, so, like I started with initially, any tapes I could get a hold of, then I started getting TDK SA, tapes. These were constantly superior sound recording quality, next, TDK SAX. Finally, I found that DENON HD 100's were really good, it was such a shame how cassettes lost their crown to digital CD, but hey, such is tech.
1:45 - And you really, actually own it... It won't be vanished if the provider company ceases (in contrast, see e.g. streaming platforms). It won't diesappear if the publication agreement between the artist and the provider company is over or broken (vs. the diesappearing songs from the streaming platforms). You can reach them even if your internet connection fails. You can listening to them even in the mountains and in the forests where network coverage does not even exist. :D Physical copies are essential for fans: :) [sorry for my weak English]
I had a big tape collection when CDs came on the scene and there are a lot of obscure things I had that never turned up on CD or was very rare. I was about to consider this for the Bluetooth but if the sound is off maybe I need to rip them to digital instead to use on the go. I still have Fisher and Kenwood dual decks for home play. I am a fossil I guess.
Doesn't appear to have Dolby NR or compatibility with metal tapes though. It does look cool.
it doesn't have a biasing switch, It can't even play type ii tapes. It shouldn't even be playing type i's, this thing is a useless crap mechanism not even suited for data tapes on a commodore 64 thrown in an aluminum case for some reason
@@WalnutSpice well at least it looks cute…it’s got that going
@@WalnutSpice Ever used one of the cheaper late 90s Sony Walkmans like EX172 etc? They might have a bias switch, but it feels more like an EQ really. They seem to be pushing treble on normal setting and pushing bass/mids/mud on the type ii setting. this causes type ii to sound 'better' on normal setting. A type two on type ii setting usually sounds a bit muddy but ofc less hiss since the highs are cut.
Even Sony had problems regarding biasing on their cheaper made in china models in the late 90s. to expect them to get it right today with probably even worse parts is a bit overblown.
I doubt anybody will build a walkman as good as the top models of the last century anymore. They simply can't because they can't get the parts. We are stuck with gimmicky little machines until somebody invests a lot of money, designes and builds a high a end model and then sells them for probably way more than 1000$.
Maybe sometime some DSP chip will come to the rescue, but that of course will not be pure analog anymore.
Nobody uses Dolby NR anymore. Dolby dosn't license it anymore and the chips are probably not even being produced anymore.
They could of course just copy it and give it a different name....
Cassettes can sound great, but until the big manufacturers bring back the quality players, its very hard to get back into it. Vinyl doesn't have that problem, as quality players are out there and sound excellent, but records are way too expensive and the few pressing plants there are, are backed up with Taylor Swift new releases.
That is a major issue when it comes to cassettes. It is possible to get excellent results with cassettes as long as you have the following: (1) good quality cassette deck, (2) good quality portable, and (3) Name brand Type II or IV cassettes. It takes a while to set up everything when making a cassette, but the results are worth it.
I did purchase pre-recorded cassettes for a time, but I found that I got better results by purchasing an LP and making my own tapes. The quality of pre-recorded cassettes often wasn't very good, although they did make some attempts to improve them toward the end of cassettes reign.
They can sound as good as CD. Just not on the "We Are Rewind" player. And probably not those old prerecorder type I tapes. And probably not through bluetooth.
Agreed
i like the teenage engineering inspiration, great device...
the bluetooth function is kind of funny but i just see it as unnecessary since it's messing with the analog cassette sound!
I would rather the sound of a Tape over MP3..
I think a factor is the bitrate used for MP3. MP3s encoded at 320kbps (the highest bitrate) or the highest VBR setting can sound very good. It's at the lower bitrate that sound quality suffers, although for some uses (such as audiobooks with one speaker) a lower bitrate is fine.
Doesn't change the way you listen to music IMO. Its just a walkman with bluetooth.
I have this and the FIio , they are good but to change the belts it’s far to hard to do and it would be better if they had removable batteries like older cassette players did. I also wish they had radio live older players had
But if a 30 year old EX walkman that's 1/3 the size, sounds remarkably better and costs less, why wouldn't you just do that? You can buy them with the belt already swapped easily enough for less money than a WAR brick, but it's really not that hard to do if you really had to. The record function is terrible and you wouldn't even want to use it past the first time.
Permanent magnet erase head says it all... Awful quality. This device is the crosley for cassettes...
@@Gajodareactividade Exactly why. All recordable portables are like that except for the Sony WM-D6C and WM-D3, though the D6C was much better. There were other good portables but they're not in the 'Walkman' size territory.
Like most people, you purchased a very low end cassette player(I don't mean brand) and also purchases a worn out cassette album that was recorded on a low end Type 1 cassette tape but don't get me wrong I made plenty of those kind of purchases also, until I purchased my first higher end Sony EX portable cassette player that 95% of people did not even know existed at the time, especially the ones that did not want a cassette player that cost $200 at the time when the average cassette Walkman's (SONY, JVC, Panasonic, Etc.) only cost about $20-$50, Sony EX Players even made worn out type 1 cassette tapes sound good but the real surprise came from Type 2 and 4 cassette tapes that were recorded with my higher end Sony ES deck with Dolby S from my higher end Sony ES CD Player, my later Sony EX Walkman even had Track Skip and Replay like my Sony ES Cassette Deck and now that Hi-Res audio has come out we can make even better sounding cassette recordings because the source is even more detailed
i got several great sets of great ear plugs and headsets and my WAR player sounds great. Analog rocks. To the new potential buyer. get a good headset.
Got this we are rewind player , impressed with he looks and feel but doesn’t sound according to the price tag . Not recommended
well... you never show how noisy is with the pro cassettes at the end/// ... 🤷♀
Does it record to tape via Bluetooth or is that only for speaker play? I wish the window was completely clear instead of a small circle so we could better see where the tape is when recording into it.
It only records via the aux input.
What about connecting to Bluetooth headphones, Is that a possibility?
That’s really the make or break for me at this point
@Ungovernable_Slug that would be easy. They have bluetooth so anything can connect
Bluetooth? What’s the point of analog in that case?
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I'd love this but for CDs
This looks like a great product but I absolutely cannot stand the circular window
Look at all new Fiio cp13, better design.
Oh hey a candy Lander
Wobble? Wow & Flutter is the correct term.
I need some urgent advice! There’s a sale tomorrow in my region and I have the chance to get Stanmore 2 at the same price as Acton 3? Which speaker would you suggest me? Please reply
I'd get the acton 3. The sound is better, just not as much bass. I'd always recommend the 3 series over the 2.
Is Stanmore 2 that bad? I usually listen to a lot of hip-hop so was wondering what would be better as the bass is something I think would be useful for me. what do you think? I appericate the reply. Stanmore 3 is 80 euros more expensive than the 2 here.@@DannyPops
It's those kind of devices that ruin entirely the cassette listening experience.... Oh, about recording?? Well, any device with permament magnet erase head will be terrible... Cassettes can sound much better!!
No AA battery support. A big NO for me.
Just wait till the Japanese giants Sony ,Sharp ,Sanyo pull outvtheir old drawings and get back to making Walkmans this WE ARE REWIND ,will wind up forever and the reason is just one ; OVERPRI,ED
Why old cassette players are coming back?
Sucks since they are completely sold out on Amazon as of June 6th 2024
dude Cassettes are analog it has nothng to do with bitrates Bitrates is purly digital
Ridiculously overpriced with the minimal features it has . My 2003 Sony still works fine., has digital AM/FM , METAL /CHROME / NORMAL tape selectors / AVLS and Bass boost.
I can’t pair this player with a Sony wireless headphones. Some advice?
sorry dude but you saying you dont listen to it for the quality, you are speaking to audiophiles, people who love music and lyrics in a song don't care how nad it songs as long as they can hear the beat the lyrics they have to most fun... Stop speaking on an audio phile level speak from the pure enjoyment of music. a true audiophile would not listen to music on a device they will go to a live concert or show and listen to it.
Over priced :( just invest in a vintage walkman for what ypu spend on this. Looks cool and yeah bluetooth but.... caca mechanism! :(
When your knowledge of audio is limited to mp3 and cds, don't flap your gums about tapes
Mine finishes in trashcan
Walkmen have better quality.
« I’m not sponsored » but monetized. This product is rubbish. The review is one of the weirdest mess ever.
Sad.
Danny are you ok? You look tired
lol i am, i woke up and made this early. thank you :)
CASSETES are not a good option ANYMORE.
It is pure garbage.
Rubbish
Hilarious
overpriced junk for posers
As soon as you said Bluetooth, the fun was completely over. This video sucked all the 80s out of listening to music.
These units will never be near the quality of the Sony, Aiwa, Panasonic Walkmans...save your money and reach the secondhand market if you got high quality tapes from the old days in your collection like SA-X, MA-R, Maxell MX, XL-II and play your tapes quality gear!!!
nowadays technologies allows to produce new edge, fantastic electro-mechanical pieces of hardware but "guys" make noisy, bulky, cheep shit ......
Ты слишком молод, чувак.
Did you just make a video to explain to gen Z how a tape cassette works lol .. this is hilarious