{"id":35054,"date":"2018-12-03T07:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35054"},"modified":"2018-12-03T07:40:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:40:57","slug":"crosley-is-bringing-back-the-radio-cassette-portable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/crosley-is-bringing-back-the-radio-cassette-portable\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosley is bringing back the radio cassette portable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Crosley CT100A<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributors Mike Hangen and Kim Elliott who share the following item from The Verge<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Crosley, the company best known for making those junky $100 turntables you can find at Target or Best Buy, is expanding into a different era of musical nostalgia: cassette decks, via TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

The company is selling two tape decks. Both have the same basic specs for cheap hardware: there\u2019s a single mono speaker, an AM\/FM radio, an integrated mic, and a single-direction deck (so you\u2019ll have to flip the tape yourself, just like the good old days). Odds are that you won\u2019t get the best-sounding speaker, but that\u2019s not really the point.<\/p>\n

The $60 CT100 model can also get shortwave radio, and it adds some rather anachronistic support for playing music off SD cards and USB drives. The $70 CT200 skips those features but adds treble and bass dials and a VU meter, which looks cooler and thus commands a higher price.<\/p>\n

Again, neither of these players are likely going to give you an audiophile-level experience. But if you\u2019re looking for somewhere to play your retro Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack cassette, they should work just fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon has both the Crosley CT100A<\/a> and the CT200A<\/a>–both are $52.77 shipped. I also see that Target has them online for $49.00 shipped.<\/a>\u00a0I find it interesting that Target doesn’t mention the shortwave bands in the basic item description–they simply list it as an AM\/FM radio.<\/p>\n

While I imagine these Crosley sets will have only mediocre shortwave reception, I bet they’ll sell a lot of them. Being so widely distributed, they’ll make for a unique gift or impulse buy.<\/p>\n

What’s really ironic is that those of us familiar with a little radio history know that Crosley was a giant in the radio business and produced some amazing sets (including this masterpiece<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Mike Hangen and Kim Elliott who share the following item from The Verge: Crosley, the company best known for making those junky $100 turntables you can find at Target or Best Buy, is expanding into a different era of musical nostalgia: cassette decks, via TechCrunch. 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