FIIO CP13 Personal Cassette Player | Worth Buying?

I recently found my tape collection (while hunting for some Nintendo hardware in my attic) and I'm in love with good old analogue music again.

But I couldn't find my walkman so I went shopping for a modern day replacement and the FIIO was my first choice!

Or if you're lucky you might see them on Aliexpress for a better price.

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[Terry.W]

This will never match my reconditioned Sony decks ....but bear in mind this tape deck is brand new ...and I like this cheeky cassette player ...I used it on my local bus and it caused a lot of interest in the unit ...good result..

[AI_Surfer]

A cassette played on a decent portable cassette player should sound really good through even a decent pair of headphones. In my experience with portable cassette players (and I am an old boomer/gen x person who listened to cassettes on portable players all the way back to the first Sony Walkman in the early 80s.) In my experience, Dolby NR wasn't nearly as much of a difference on the sound quality of the cassette as XDR and HX Pro were. You could get some really incredible sound from a hand held portable cassette player that was in the mid price range, from a cassette encoded with XDR and HX Pro. So if these new hand held portable players are not reproducing really good sound from the old cassettes, then it tells you they are not worth the money being asked for them. But with most people just wanting to listen to a cassette for that old nostalgia feeling, then they probably don't really care is the sound quality is not the best.

[Gamemaster-]

My biggest question is, does it play tapes at the right speed fully charged and all the way through? That's mainly the big deal breaker for me!

[kingdeadpool]

I was planning on buying one and supergluing a belt clip on the back, do you think that would work with whatever material this is?

[FennecTECH]

looks like a tenashan tape mech well knwon for being trash