Toshiba Hi-Res Cassette Player

[gururanga]

I want one! I have many boxes of old cassettes, and it would be great fun working through them all, a kind of music rediscovery. As it happens, I do have an Aiwa 990 and Nak BX-300. So a nice new one would be splendid. Not too expensive either!

https://www.whathifi.com/news/toshiba-ta...e=20180326

 

[abhinaba]

But the article quotes,

That said, there's no reason cassette tapes couldn't be made to deliver high-res audio with the right equipment at the production end, we just imagine they'd need quite a bit of tape - and maybe different tape - to support hi-res tracks of any length. As far as we're aware, there are no such 'hi-res tapes' already in existence.
Read more at https://www.whathifi.com/news/toshi...-high-res-audio-cassettes#s0w6z8EoCYs4adoL.99

 

[abhinaba]

It’s released now. Looks like a simple cassette player with an audyssey mdax button.

 

[Kumar101]

It’s released now. Looks like a simple cassette player with an audyssey mdax button.

This is aimed at old folks in Japan who are nostalgic and probably have a Cassette collection from yester-years. Fairly low end to keep the costs down and hence affordable.

At 16:35 in the video they have the Mighty Nakamichi Dragon one of the best pieces of technology ever made by mankind: