There has been a minor resurgence in "personal cassette tape players" (known more widely by Sony brand name 'walkmen') The most disturbing thing is how bare-bones these new products are... falling *far* short of the walkmen of yore.
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There has been a minor resurgence in "personal cassette tape players" (known more widely by Sony brand name 'walkmen') The most disturbing thing is how bare-bones these new products are... falling *far* short of the walkmen of yore.
This one is $80, it has a USB-C rechargeable battery, but no song skipping fast forward, no bluetooth, auto-reverse... frankly it's exceptional for having both rewind AND fast forward.
I feel like a barbarian looking at the achievements of the ancients.
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trurl :unverified: ᅠ ᅠ ᅠ ᅠ ༽replied to myrmepropagandist last edited by
@futurebird i once had a sony walkman with auto reverse, a remote on the headphone cord and non-mechanical buttons not much larger than a cassette itself... (after that i bought a sony md walkman from the first money i have ever earned after school. it could even record. it was a technological marvel)
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Nfoonfreplied to trurl :unverified: ᅠ ᅠ ᅠ ᅠ ༽ last edited by
@trurl @futurebird there is literrally no machine or engineer on this planet who can build or knows how to build something like this. when technics reissued the 1210 a few years back, they had to reverse engineer everything and retool a whole factory as they destroyed all manufacturing equipment back in the day. these are the marvels of capitalism. Fiio literally took the best available casette mechanics and even improved them. this is peak cassette player technology in 2024.
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@Nfoonf @trurl @futurebird
This is why Pentax decided to create a new film camera recently. They realized they were on the verge of losing the institutional knowledge on how to make mechanical film cameras, so by making a new product they transfer the knowledge to new generations of engineers.