But when you think back to the way you used to listen to music, in standardized formats that were still fairly small but more ...

Vinyl has the audiophiles to keep it relevant, and CDs still have the people who are scared of streaming music, but who mourns for the cassette ... anymore. A portable tape player that started ...

Fiio's sub-brand Snowsky has done something similar with its latest release: a DAC and headphone amplifier that, at first glance, looks like a portable cassette player. How kitsch. The ultra ...

An umbrella term for a variety of handheld devices that play back audio, video or both. Today, every smartphone is a portable media player; however, prior to the smartphone explosion in the 2007 ...

Retrospekt’s CP-81 goes even further back in format history, with the option of a clear plastic finish for this portable tape player. The CP-81 is pretty basic, even by cassette player standards, and ...

and even before portable CD players, those of us of a certain age remember that our cassette players were about the only way to take music on-the-go. If we were lucky, they also had a built-in ...

It evolved into a portable CD player by the end of the decade. See Walkman. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, many of the first personal computers allowed audio cassette recorders to function as ...