However, cassettes have a warm and distinctive sound – as soon as they have a foretaste of slight hiss, they may miss it in cleaner formats. The unique difficulty of skipping songs gives the album format a primacy no other medium – you can learn to like songs that you have skipped. (As I write this review, I recognized Liz Phair’s “Crater Lake” is an absolute hit.)
Cassettes in an era are still relatively cheap and affordable for the collector when you see a vinyl copy of Billy Joels Extreme Meh 1980 -Album Glass houses Marked with 25 US dollars. They also look cool and feel good in your hand. In short, collecting cassettes makes sense because they are slightly available and Only the 1% can collect strange minidiscs.
Be friendly to rewel back
The return has a very robust aluminum housing and a built-in battery that charges with USB-C. It weighs 14 ounces, just a little less than two iPhone 15 per Maxes. In addition to the headphone audio, there is a 3.5 -mm audio so that you can absorb your ligaments -it can have fun surprising these special people with a homemade mix band.
Photo: Martin Cizmar
I had half a dozen cassette players since I got into the hobby because I bought an old suburu with a broken CD player Wish. The return is best and away – I like it so much that I still use it to hear my ligaments while driving, even though I have sold it suburau and now have a stereo system with CarPlay.
Anyone who has ever had to cozy hundred meters of confused adhesive tape and prays that there are no tears understand how important it is to have reliable transport. In contrast to half of my other players, the return has never eaten a band. There are some great vintage players out there, but unless they have been completely cleaned and renovated that they carry out the risk of a weak component, which leads to cascade errors. A high -quality renovated player costs at least as much as the back coils and you will not receive any of the additional modern functions.
The back coil sounds almost every portable player that I have heard, namely that he reliably reproduces the sound of the cassette, pops and hiss. This even applies if you use the Bluetooth function to transfer your ligaments Wireless headphones. I am one of the people who do not understand the attractiveness of a physical medium -if I want to hear a digital version, I would simply play it on Apple music -but it’s nice to have the option here. I could easily combine the back coils A sentence JBL melody headphonesBut I couldn’t get it up to running with my car stereo system and instead rely on a 3.5 mm cable. The audio is steamed with Bluetooth compared to wired headphones.
A little hiss
The only problem is the lack of car stop if the cassette has the string back or the quick starter. The poor little engine continues to hurl with an unpleasant squeak, which also means that the tape may be stressed. The player does not send with headphones. I have it with an inexpensive Set clear Koss headphonesBut I was also sent Refuge -Bluetooth headphones With which I was very unimpressed – the vintage look is cool, but you have a flimsy feeling and a more fliminary sound for $ 50.
However, these are relatively small handles when you consider that everything that is the return is better than any other now. This French cassette player is the best in 2025, and depending on the collective trends, this may be the last best band player there.
