Maxell Japan has launched a portable ‘Walkman’ cassette player, but its retro audio tech is boosted by modern convenience.

For The Verge’s YouTube channel, I talked to the companies making these modernized players — We Are Rewind and Fiio — to figure out why we can’t make cassette and CD players like we used to.

The DM13 CD player features both a 3.5mm single-ended and a 4.4mm balanced headphone output, which means it should suit a wide range of different headphones. There are dedicated analogue line output, ...

That's something TEAC has noticed: its TEAC AD-850-SE combined CD player and cassette player/recorder didn't get tons of attention when it launched the most recent model in 2022, but over the last ...

Fiio’s DM-13 Bluetooth CD player has a large square design that resembles a Sony Discman from the late 1980s, even though, by 2001, we had super slim round CD players from iRiver, Panasonic, and ...