Largely thanks to the boombox (first released in 1966) and the iconic Sony Walkman (first released in 1979), cassette tapes allowed you to listen to music outside your home and wherever you like. In ...

Quick LinksWhy Cassettes?New Cassette Players SuckReconnecting With My PastIt's been over 20 years since Sony released a cassette player, and cassette sales are so minuscule they barely show up on ...

The Sony Walkman WM-2 cassette player was the second Walkman model. It was the world’s smallest stereo cassette player at that time, ... The best tape players will have you rockin’ and a rollin’ in no ...

My ‘Walkman’ – it didn’t matter the brand, all portable tape players were referred to as a Walkman back then ... At the time of the Sony Walkman TPS-L2's launch in 1979, ...

Sony Walkman, the Apple iPhone of its day is enjoying a nostalgia-fueled renaissance, ... that Ip began to build his vast treasure trove of tape players — about 1,000 of them, ...

The first Sony Walkman, model TPS-L2 launched July 1, 1979. | Photo Credit: Sony.com Yes, the Revenge of the Tape Walkman is real — and it’s not subtle. FiiO just dropped the CP13 , a slick, USB-C ...

The Walkman DD (Direct Drive) series was one of Sony's most iconic and high-end portable cassette players, introduced in 1982. The direct drive motor provided stable and accurate tape playback ...

But Sony will have to pack all of the sentimentality of the Walkman into a modern device. That means Sony has a big pair of Air Jordans to fill with the NW-A306. The subtle quirkiness of legacy ...