FiiO - CP13 Personal Stereo Cassette Player - ANY GOOD? Free giveaway in the description

[@ThriftShopReviews]

Win this device by watching this video to enter kzbin.info/www/bejne/nX7clIZ7r9-hZ80

[@vernonzehr]

uh.... er... is there anywhere in the video I missed where you talk about the quality of the sound? Wow and flutter etc? I checked the transcript and listened to a few spots but couldn't find anything. You started to talk about it and even put in a new tape, but then moved on to headphones and then pulled out an old sony player and then the subscribe pitch and then some music but I couldn't find any feedback of the quality of the sound.

[@markbushinski1198]

Nice review. I am also a fan of the KPH40 headphones, to me they sound better than the porta pros.

[@pavelpavel9503]

I'm using this fiio cp-13 less than 1 month and already have issue with play autostop - it has stopped working at all. It start curling tapes. So, tape transport mechanism is really poor.

[@onsenkuma1979]

Without noise reduction cassettes are inherently pretty hissy, due mainly to the low transport speed of the medium. When introduced the cassette was never really intended as a music medium. My first deck (early '70s) had no NR at all, and the results were less than high fidelity, especially with quiet music. My last deck (early '90s) had Dolby C and HX Pro, and with premium metal tapes the results were incredible. Still have the deck and the tapes I recorded on it...

[@AkmolaLola]

is this still using rubber belting that will rot one day?

[@brunohebert1351]

As much as I'm going to be nostalgic of the old intro (which did make an brief appearance at the end ;-), I really dig the new one. It's an interesting device but still more of a novelty than anything else really. Still, glad that it exists. That way we will still have some sort of device available when my old AIWA finally give up. Mine is of the later models that was barely bigger that a cassette case. Due to its minute size, I do not dare working on it. And it's starting to have some issues. (now secretly hoping Taylor Swift release her new album on cassette so that the army of Swifties jumps to buy this kind of player... so a manufacturers keep building them hehe) And Kudos for being (to my knowledge) one of the first to review the Fiio

[@ThriftShopReviews]

Thanks for the comments.

[@brunohebert1351]

@@ThriftShopReviews coming back to it as @VWestlife released a video on how to adjust the speed and/or azimuth of the FIIO And also discovering that one of my comments I left last time has disappeared (I thought I didn't put a link in there, weird). That comment was telling you of 2 other reviews on Yt for the FIIO, one by @VWestlife (obviously) and the other by @Anadialog, those 2 are worth checking out. Cheers.

[@christianmccauley7340]

Fuuuck that’s a sexy lookin cassette player. Very pleasing, makes me want one.

[@javiervasquez1853]

0:12 ups me equivoque pensé habia entrado a Iniquisidor 4.0

[@BlazeingGoldReviews]

Ice nine kills! Immediate subscribe I don't even care a out the video XD

[@nikolaroshupkin5410]

Китайцы попытались повторить то, что делали японцы в начале 1970-х. Дезайн угловатый, грубый и примитивный, мотор гремит/ шумит очень громко. Размеры потрясающие - видимо электроника на транзисторах ( или на лампах? ). Энергопотребление 13 часов - на уровне 1980-х. За такие деньги ( 100$) можно купить настоящий винтажный Sony в идеальном состоянии конца 1990-х ( толщиной 14 мм, сенсорными кнопками + FM radio)

[@rajgopalanvikhram8410]

Is there any change in mechanism? Audio cassettes are famous for getting chewed.

[@MultiWirth]

The mechanism is the same tanashin clone as usual, except they also use the brass flyhweel like the we are rewind. Doesn´t change the fact, that it´s still a very cheap transport design with little to no stabilization in the tape path, poor quality tape head. And they too weren´t able to kill the motor noise interfering with the audio output. The Mulann B1000 sold by Recording The Masters doesn´t have the brass flywheel, but a superior amplifier circuit. There´s no motor buzzing in the audio, also the playback quality is among all i´ve heard the best. It doesn´t has an overwhelming amount of bass, no weird cut-off at the trebles and just sounds a lot wider and more natural than the rewind or fiio. The rewind has lots of bass, poor trebles, the fiio has an huge treble boost, but lacks of bass entirely. You can see they were specifically tuned that way, especially the fiio also changes it´s sound characteristic based on the volume wheel position. Dunno why that is. Maybe they were trying to mimic the aurally compensated volume control that was standard in the 60s and 70s

[@truer870]

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