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Bluetooth, USB-C, and a Cassette Deck: Maxell’s New Player Is Quietly Brilliant

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If you grew up rewinding tapes with a pencil to save the batteries, there’s a decent chance you stopped mid-scroll this week when Maxell quietly posted on Threads to announce they’d made a new cassette player. Not a limited-run art project. Not a boutique audiophile curiosity. A proper, clip-on-your-belt, watch-the-reels-spin cassette player, updated for an era where you charge everything via USB-C and your headphones don’t have wires. The post did numbers. The Amazon listing sold out. And somewhere, a shoebox of mixtapes just became relevant again.

The device is the MXCP-P100, and it’s a playback-only machine built…

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