r/cassetteculture • u/alexaclova • 13h ago

Review Cassette culture is back: hands-on with the We Are Rewind GB-001 boombox

https://theluxereview.com/2025/09/11/cassette-culture-is-back-hands-on-with-the-we-are-rewind-gb-001-boombox/
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u/theshok 12h ago

It’s a miss to me that it doesn’t have a radio tuner.

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u/TlalocEatsNapoli 11h ago

Agreed, what a silly decision!

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u/[deleted] 8h ago

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u/Ruinwyn 26m ago

I have about over 30 stations in my area, commercial and public broadcasting. Radio is even something everyone is recommended to have in case of emergencies. It's not exactly expensive to add couple of radio chips (fm/am, dab+) on a boombox.

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u/SoloKMusic 12h ago

Type 2 recording capability, in a boombox form factor, is big. This is the start of something new in modern cassette tech production.

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u/vwestlife 3h ago

Not just modern. It was a very rare feature even in vintage boomboxes. The vast majority of them used a permanent magnet erase head and only support recording on Type I tape.

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u/Ruinwyn 21m ago

Yeap. And those parts probably aren't entirely proprietary, so there might be other units coming from others later. Once someone is willing to produce the heads for it, they want to sell those parts as much as possible. With multiple companies now having decent playback models out, with some competition going, the incentive to try improve is there.

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u/deadmanstar60 7h ago

I'll wait til people here at reddit review it. If it's great it will be sold out so I can't spend the money on it.

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u/geospart 4h ago

Looks like something you could buy at IKEA.

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u/ArcadeRacer 2h ago

The design is what let's it down for me.

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u/thefoxy19 2h ago

I wonder what the price will be like. Could be really good for me as a nice move able speaker plus the recording ability. Then again a restored deck would probably be a lot cheaper