We Are Rewind’s self-consciously retro Cassette Player is designed to tap into our ongoing obsession for analogue formats. Just the thing for your mixtape 2022?
Brands like Teac still make cassette decks even for racks - they also have to use the same shitty mech, but try to package it with good electronics and possibly hand pick the best samples? I don’t think it makes sense, but if someone really wants a new deck, that’s an option.
But for cassette to make a proper return, you’d still need more than that. Chrome and metal tapes aren’t made anymore, heck not even good type I tapes, and old stock is running out, so that’s one hurdle. Then those new mechanisms don’t have the capability to record on them anyway, and Dolby doesn’t licence their tape NR anymore.
To bring cassettes back, one would need to recreate the whole ecosystem. It seems more difficult than with vinyls.
Brands like Teac still make cassette decks even for racks - they also have to use the same shitty mech, but try to package it with good electronics and possibly hand pick the best samples? I don’t think it makes sense, but if someone really wants a new deck, that’s an option.
But for cassette to make a proper return, you’d still need more than that. Chrome and metal tapes aren’t made anymore, heck not even good type I tapes, and old stock is running out, so that’s one hurdle. Then those new mechanisms don’t have the capability to record on them anyway, and Dolby doesn’t licence their tape NR anymore.
To bring cassettes back, one would need to recreate the whole ecosystem. It seems more difficult than with vinyls.