One such gadget was the Sony CFS-C7 Chord Machine Boombox Portable Cassette Tape Recorder, released in 1982 and only in Japan. Groove to the beat of your own synthesized drum thingy ...

So it’s sort of bittersweet to see Sony releasing its final cassette-playing boom box ever. Think about it: cassettes were the first medium that allowed people to put a bunch of different songs ...

The TCS 300 was the first personal stereo cassette recorder manufactured by Sony. Science ... in the 1960s to semi-portable cassette-wielding “boombox” stereos in the 1970s — before ...

Witness the remarkable restoration of a classic Sony stereo radio cassette boombox, a nostalgic piece of audio history, as it’s brought back to life. This video follows the entire transformation ...

The Sony Walkman WM-AF59 combined auto-reverse cassette playback with an integrated AM/FM radio tuner. As a sports model, it offered waterproofing and was rated for 7 hours of playback using two ...

Get a genuine taste of old-school tape recording with We Are Rewind's new cassette boombox Bastl Instruments' Kastle 2 Wave Bard is a cute, patchable and experimental groovebox that fits in your ...

Sony's Walkman will forever live long in consumer lore, enabling music lovers to carry ... TCM-410 and TCM-450 cassette recorders, but those shipments will cease early next year. ...

The 1980s could well have been the Walkman decade. The popularity of Sony’s device — and those by brands like Aiwa, Panasonic and Toshiba who followed in Sony’s lead — helped the cassette ...

Similarly, in the U.S. 2022 sales of albums on cassette tape jumped by 28% to 440,000. That's up from 343,000 in 2021, according to the U.S. 2022 Luminate Year-End Music Report . Before streaming ...

Portable cassette recorders had mostly been used by reporters; this one, with its […] On July 1 of 1979, Sony first began to sell the TPS-L2, first known as the Soundabout and soon rechristened ...