REVIEW : 'We Are Rewind' portable cassette player

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  @Techmoan · 3 years ago · pinned

  Here’s a tear down video<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chWDaAjddF0">https://youtu.be/chWDaAjddF0</a>

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• RU

  @Ruinwyn · 3 years ago

  The way they say they made it more sustainable by adding a rechargeable lithium battery, but admit it&apos;s going to die in 5 years and can&apos;t be changed because the case can&apos;t be opened, shows they didn&apos;t really think it through.

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• PI

  @piccolo-p · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s a shame that the cassette tech of the present just cannot compete with the past.

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• TH

  @TheCommentator353 · 3 years ago

  This product is a novelty item. The fact that they’ve included a pencil as a nod to the rewinding with pencil joke, they’ve named the colours after rockstars, the company’s name is Rewind implying they are going back in time, all make it feel like a toy. More about the aesthetic of cassettes as apposed to the actual use of them. I wish some wonderful, preferably Japanese company would come along and do it properly and make a new quality cassette mechanism.

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• TP

  @tparadox_1988 · 3 years ago

  A case of &quot;this is the best mobile cassette player in production today... and isn&apos;t that sad?&quot;

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• EO

  @eobet · 3 years ago

  My last Sony Walkman was all metal and not much larger than the cassette tape inside of it. It could also play either side of the tape and was auto seeking and super quiet. It felt quality, but then again, even their plastic sports Walkman did…

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• KE

  @KevReillyUK · 3 years ago

  I&apos;ll be honest, I&apos;ve never really understood the concept of wearable merchandise for a channel such as this one. Until now. Because if you put out a T-shirt or hoodie with a stylised pencil-loosely-through-cassette logo and the words <i>&quot;Western Pencils Don&apos;t Wind Tapes&quot;</i> in both English and Japanese I would sell my own grandmother to get one. Just putting it out there.

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• DE

  @DenkyManner · 3 years ago (edited)

  The inclusion of the pencil tells me this is made by cheeky hipsters who value aesthetics over function. And the fact the pencil doesn&apos;t fit tells me they aren&apos;t remotely concerned about function.

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• RA

  @Ralphs-House · 3 years ago

  In my experience, the best &apos;test&apos; source for wow and flutter is a recording of a piano. It becomes glaringly obvious then, if theres a problem with playback.

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• HG

  @HG_well · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s sad that they can&apos;t make decent cassette tape players anymore. Thanks for this excellent new product review.

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• MR

  @MrRovers1984 · 3 years ago

  The thing that frustrates me the most, and probably shoudn&apos;t, is the play button not being the first button and facing the right way. Grinds my gears.

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• SO

  @sootikins · 3 years ago

  That thing looks like what would result from IKEA and Yugo collaborating to make a cassette deck.

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