there is a new aiwa expensive one 2023 year out there check it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWkBV2W_cKU
beautiful it is
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Cor that is rather nice looking, thank you for posting 
Still a bit of a daft idea (apart from nostalgia value)!
Mind you, I was glad when digital allowed me to stop fretting about LPs and the constant hassle and worry associated with owning a record deck and LP collection: round about the mid-90s and I’ve not really looked back, apart from occasionally missing the tactile quality of the equipment itself.
See also Reel-to-reel.
great
i am so glad i never get to the “maniac new age vinyl craziness” nowdays
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not need to in that case better they do make new 7 ips reel to reel that can play also like 8 track meaning 3 3/4 IPS !
cassette was invented like the poor reel to reel because no reel to reel can play 1⅞ ips ?
domestic reel to reel machines often had 1 7/8 speed, intended for long playing speech recordings i think (much like the 16 rpm speed on old TTs)
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cassette sound so good in music;
is great to put selected tracks from sacd to cassette, there is not other way
Still love listening to cassettes now and then, such a glorious wide open soundstage.
Going back to cassettes would give me the heebee jeebees.
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I agree. I’ll admit I used cassettes to make about a gazillion mix tapes back in the '70s and '80s, and that was a lot of fun, but the only reason the format existed at all was affordability and convenience. Even with all the electronic wizardry in the world, you can only wring just so much fidelity out of skinny little tape running at s-l-o-w speeds. For fidelity, there’s no substitute for lots of oxide moving past a record head in a hurry.
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And what did we have to compare it to at the time - 8 tracks.
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I remember having a pencil that had an ideal eraser to tighten up the slack.
And the cassette holder that rattled over every bump. ugh
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I have a fully serviced Sony TC-K815S connected to my Strata mk2, and still play the cassette’s dating from the eighties and early nineties. I still buy cassette’s now and then and even made some new mix tapes last year 
In my opinion there are three major problems with cassettes nowadays:
It seams that there aren’t any companies left that are able to make decent to good cassette drive mechanisms anymore (at least not profitable).
Type IV, metal, tapes are not made anymore and the old stock is being sold for ridiculously high prices.
Dolby noise reduction cannot be licensed anymore.
I had a Teac A450 cassette deck back in the 70’s in it’s time it was quite good. I replaced it with a Nakamichi LX 5 which really disappointed me. The issue was Nakamichi used a non standard record and playback eq that made tapes recorded on it sound dull and rolled off when played back on anything other than the machine used to record it. From that I went to a Revox B 215 which I still own today. That machine made fantastic recordings that sounded great when played on anything. I have not used it in years as with usung the NPC and Vynil Studio I am able to create CD’s and hi rez recordings of my records that sound fantastic. They are so good that when I play them for people they say “that can’t be from a record, it is so quiet and dynamic”.
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