When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother … “Mother, can I buy the latest Redwall audibook tape so that I can hear it in the car on the way out of the holiday?”
“Yes,” he replied, “but only if you eat all your greens.”
So eat all my greens, and an audibook about anthropomorphic animals living in a large forest was socket in my cassette player. That cassette player was my only way to hear anything beyond radio at that time.
CD where his popularity was well in that point, but I remained like a cassette until about 10 years of age. So tape has always placed a special place in my heart.
While my comprehensive collection of audibook and music has long been sent to the great cassette deck in the sky, I have been able to accumulate others since then. But I need something to play with them.
Enter, then, we are cassette players like Rewind and Walkman. It looks like my old player, in a more premium feeling shell. I have been playing with it for the last few days – and I am bent.
As simple as they come
By the time I was 8 years old in the early 2000s, the cassette was about 50 years or through technological development. It had no noise-decreased equipment, which would relieve cracks and pops, and special mechanisms that will prevent tape from over-Evind rewind and moving rapidly.
And the sound enhancing music that improves sound, even with special types of tapes will increase the sound quality. I used only cheap players, so I really never got to try all those features. I just drove a tape in my player, played, and I went away.
The VR Rewind Player does not facilitates any of these technological progresses, making it an incredible explosion of indifference and a very simple tool to use.
Open it, place the tape inside, and press the play. Reach the end of the tape, turn it over, and play from the other side. No frills, no fancy auto stop mechanism, no auto reverse – just you and a cassette tape.
There is some noise that comes during the playback, as I remember with my old player. Given that this is not my primary music playback machine, I don’t really care – and if nothing else, it takes me back to a car on the highway on the way to the hut of some rural areas for the holiday.
It seems … like a tape player
Was I looking for a high-fi sound that we are, we are a rewind cassette player? No, I wanted something that plays my burial selection of the old cassette, and the VR Rewind Player gives me everything I ever wanted. It plays my tape.
People with impressive equipment will probably tell me that some wow and flutter scores as the top of the range player from the late 90s, and it plays the things a little faster.
For my ear, it is used for vinyl playback, it seemed perfectly – and I have now heard a few hours of music and audibook.
Modern features
Despite inviting its apathy simplicity, there are some modern touch that make it feel perfectly better to use. There is a built-in battery, and you can charge it with a USB-C port on the side.
It is good for 12 -hour playback, apparently, which is good. I am not sure if you use my favorite modern additional, Bluetooth 5.0 connection, it is a battery figure.
This has allowed me to listen to my cassette on the best wireless headphones and the best Bluetooth speakers, making it about 72% more convenient than wired options, when I used to use when I was a small.
A touching pleasure
I like physical control about everything I use. I do not enjoy touch control, or even some of these funny rubber buttons that become gross after years of use.
VR Rewinds includes final physical control – mechanical switch that looks some of the best in the device, which transfers to the device for some of this side to suppress the large red button in the President’s office.
Click and Clains are the lifespan of the purpose in my brain, and the ability to play the role of my new tape beyond cassette, it is the tact that really loves me.
