It turns out that all currently produced cassette players use the same mechanism with some small tweaks in materials (like metal flywheels in these higher quality models) because the engineering ...

There have been plenty of iconic gadget releases throughout the years, but none are quite as legendary as the Sony Walkman.

I've owned a half-dozen cassette players since falling into the hobby because I bought an old Suburu with a broken CD player that ate my copy of Desire. The Rewind is far and away the best—I ...

Shaksaaz, a tailor in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar, inherited his passion for local Sufi music from his grandfather along ...

Listened to by artisans as they work or at gatherings of Sufi music aficionados, cassette players hold sway in ...

For decades, cassette players have carried the soul-stirring poetry of Sufi saints and the mystical melodies of Kashmiri instruments like the sarangi and santoor, and it’s long been a local ...