The Retekess TR641. A New Cassette Radio in 2025?!?! YES!

For reasons I can't put into words, I LOVE this little portable radio. A cassette Recorder that is all new in 2025? Yes, and I can confirm that it works and sounds good too!
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[@pdt4776]

Just seeing the front slowly open brought back tons of memories!

[@FarpointFarms]

Ha- I can see that

[@davidxbeats]

lol...I thought i was the only one who had cassette recordings of Art Bell! Mine go back to the mid 90's. I have 3 or 4 boxes of them! Nice to know someone is still making a cassette player. Those have come back into vogue with the Gen Z gang as I understand it.

[@FarpointFarms]

I hope that that generation would start to listen to him, there are so many great shows.

[@robertmeyer4744]

Thanks!

[@FarpointFarms]

You're welcome- thanks for watching and the constant support of the channel

[@Who.Knew-The.Salt.MustFlow]

Love Art Bell.. Wish he was still with us

[@FarpointFarms]

I think that we all wish that Art was still around. He had such a way with his show. All were welcome, not matter what they wanted to talk about

[@tylersanders6018]

I gotta say, I always expect the unexpected from your channel and I enjoy it! Who would've thought you could buy a cassette player in this day in age? Pretty cool stuff and thank you for sharing!

[@FarpointFarms]

I am glad that I can keep you on your toes. You never know what you might find here!

[@johnkelley6278]

WOW! They bring back Vinyl Albums, now Cassette Players, that means 8 Tracks & VCR's are on the way! Great Video, thanks!

[@timmy4579]

I've been waiting for the 8 tracks to make a comeback. Here's hoping.

[@FarpointFarms]

8 Tracks and laser discs. I still will see 8 tracks in the local thrift stores from time to time

[@johnkelley6278]

@@FarpointFarms I forgot about Laser Disc movies. They were short lived but were futuristic to me when I rented one in 1983 !

[@shockingguy]

@@FarpointFarms my friend still uses his laser disk ha ha

[@bambi--5]

I love your reviews. My father was a serious HAM radio operator... ( You should have seen the tower he built in the back yard...) so I have some serious geek genes, even as a woman. I appreciate your channel.. just found it a few days ago!

[@FarpointFarms]

Thank you and welcome! There is nothing wrong with Geek Genes-

[@jimp.7286]

Ham op for many-many decades here. And yes, I once had a tower. Not these days though. I try to keep it under the radar so the neighbors won't blame me for their poor internet speeds. Cheers.

[@genalwest4375]

Now I have to find my box of cassette tapes!! This is so cool

[@FarpointFarms]

Right?!? I thought so too.

[@karl-heinzruttimann8133]

Hi Eric, thank you very much for information of this new cassette radio. Yes, I have a lot of cassettes. This is one of my hobbies apart from radios and so on. From the 80 th.on I like to listen to them with one of my 4 walkmen or with my cassette deck. In former days I used to make mix tapes for listening in my car radio (with cassette player). Here in Germany they sell new cassettes and there is a company in Canada which is making all sorts of blank cassettes.

[@FarpointFarms]

That is cool to know that there are still companies making blank tapes. I think making mixed tapes was a great childhood memory for me. Waiting for the exact moment my favorite song would come on and I would hit record.

[@jimp.7286]

Record to cassette, sd and blue tooth along with am/fm. The kitchen sink. How cool and convenient is that? 👍 On a related side note for those who may not know; there's a great deal of interest in cassettes over the last few years. It's not just for older folks looking for a way to play older media. Part of it is the gateway to magnetic tape sound. Also, physical media that's easy to copy/make,..then pass on or sell to music fans at shows. A connection to the past for younger folks who missed the analog era. I transferred a 24 bit/96khz digital multi-track mix to an early 90's sony component deck a couple years ago as a test. I'd forgotten how good they could sound. Really good along with the tape vibe. Instant memories for me. Cheers.

[@FarpointFarms]

I am glad I could give you some memories- I guess retro is cool again. I will say that when I listen to records, the sound is not perfect, but it sounds like perfection to me.

[@jimp.7286]

@@FarpointFarms 👍👍

[@zet8951]

J'ai réinstallé un autoradio K7 dans ma Miata le mois dernier 🎉

[@FarpointFarms]

Cool!

[@musicman364]

First, great video and very, very nice product from Retevis. . . thanks. Looking at what's behind you pretty much sums up why I like your channel and it connects to me. I have those old portable TVs (wish I could still use them in this digital world), model ships, I'm a walkie-talkie fanatic, I still have my old computer monitors, I was in the Army a long time (the drill sergeant hat), metal model cars, CB radios, joy stick, mixing board, wooden airplane models. . . Love it all. Have a great weekend!

[@FarpointFarms]

Thanks- Great minds think alike

[@CrazyMike2]

That is super cool. I bought just a regular cassette recorder from Walmart a few years ago. It was just like the old flat ones with the pullout handle, but it had a USB port for audio in and out

[@FarpointFarms]

Your Walmart was better than mine, I don't recall seeing anything like that in my local store for years and years

[@jamesbridges7750]

Hahaha, Sven Goolie AND Art Bell. Having spent a few years on a 7p-7a shift in the 90's I approve!

[@FarpointFarms]

Glad that you approve- with those 2 things life was pretty good

[@tint661]

Wow, I have 2 boxes of cassette tapes. I have been thinking about throwing them out. I was a cassette club member of Columbia House and BMI. I also have several boxes with self recorded albums. My Walkman gave out years ago and the belts on my home stereo went bad. No one in my area fixes that stuff anymore. Thanks for posting.

[@FarpointFarms]

You're welcome, I used to subscribe to Columbia House and had tons of their items

[@JoeR203]

I still have cassettes and still have a bookshelf stereo to play them on. 🙂 Was that David Duchovny talking at 7:15?

[@FarpointFarms]

It might have been

[@lepop4328]

A Sinclair ZX81 on the shelf! Nice, I recall building one of those around 1981. $99 for the computer.

[@FarpointFarms]

I have had that one for a long time.

[@RobbieStrike]

The coolest part is that you can record cassette on to a sd card. Hopfully you can archive you old mediia.

[@FarpointFarms]

Agreed, just like taking VHS to DVD

[@DellFargus]

Heck yeah! I can listen to my Motley Crue cassettes on that radio!

[@FarpointFarms]

Whoo Hoo!

[@garywick2090]

Yes they still sell tapes

[@FarpointFarms]

Thanks for sharing that

[@bryanhenderson8807]

Really cool radio! It's great you were able to tune in a bluegrass music station. Amazon still sells Maxell Blank cassette tapes and they have some new cassette player/recorders.

[@FarpointFarms]

YT is really strict about music copyright so I can't play music like that. It is a shame because I would love to have shown that

[@davidjernigan8161]

What quality is the cassette mechanism/transport? Techmoan looked at a few newer devices with cassette players and the mechanism was really poor quality.

[@FarpointFarms]

I am not sure, sorry- Maybe someone else can answer it for you

[@thomasseidel5700]

I guess Techmoan pointed out the problem quite good: There's only one actual tape drive left which is built into any new devices of today. So I guees it will just be same/same here. I don't get why there's still so many good record players with all the needed extras but no one is starting to make quality tape drives again.

[@Romin.777]

That's neat. Still have a couple of hundred cassettes, and records but heey, spotify..

[@FarpointFarms]

There is a certain charm from the old analog days though. I never used spotify, but I do still use Winamp!

[@Romin.777]

@FarpointFarms Winamp qualifies as old school. :)) Still have a large mp3 collection too from the Napster days. Guess we're getting old.

[@Captain1717Q]

Eric that is so cool I love it? Art Bell Coast to Coast AM listen to it for years I dig it man!!👍👍👍

[@FarpointFarms]

Art Bell was a great show, there were many late night drives listening to him

[@Captain1717Q]

@FarpointFarms Absolutely. Art lived out in the Nevada desert I remember the last video he made flying a drone over his property.. there's been a few questions of really what happened to him.

[@craigtegeler4677]

I have always liked the types of portable radios that have a decent arrangement of the control features situated on top of the radio itself! My Mom had a Sharp portable 4 band receiver that had dual function car radio and portable as well because that old Ford Falcon of hers, the A.M. radio didn't work worth a flying damn! Upon her passing, I did end up with it and if I actually knew where it is right now, I'd drag it out! There are so few of those types of radios that end up on eBay for sale and there are at least 5 different styles of them that are 4 band models and have the controls situated on top of the radio! I like them for what the are because most of the valuable real estate that is at the front of the radio can serve as having a really decent speaker or two speakers that can provide great sound, and so that is what I would be after! My fourth radio that I ever had was a micro miniature A.M crystal radio that had a button cell for the two transistor amplifier, though a crystal headset ear piece was to be used. As years passed, I became a radio collector from hell! Mid way through my collecting I was into collecting 5 band radios that were nearly the size of a big boom box. I just had to have a radio that had to have very good sound and that never escapes me because I am STILL looking for the right radio only this time it most be in stereo and have recording capability, SD and Bluetooth capabilities as well! My search thus far has been at least going on oh 20 years now and I haven't as yet found what I am after!

[@FarpointFarms]

Ha! I'll bet you have quite the collection!

[@audiophileman7047]

Cassettes are making a comeback. Some artists making music today are releasing music on cassette. I looked on Amazon; they're selling VHS tapes, but they're not cheap.

[@FarpointFarms]

I guess it is like when they started doing the same with records.

[@audiophileman7047]

@@FarpointFarms I have a VHS-C movie camera. I was going to give it a charity shop. When my son, who's in early 20's saw it, he said that he wanted it. It's hard to see these things as antiques, but they are to the young people who're coming up.

[@stubby1954]

I think I have over 200 tapes!

[@FarpointFarms]

Wow, that is alot

[@AnthonyArthur-d2f]

I hav a bunch of cassettes 😂 would like this👍🏻

[@FarpointFarms]

It could come in handy for you

[@timmy4579]

I wish I still had my cassettes. I had a pretty big collection but got rid of all of them when I moved into the CD era.

[@FarpointFarms]

I know the goodwills by us you can still find some, but the selection is limited.

[@Captain1717Q]

Did you run any cassettes in it or try to record I want to know how that part of it works?

[@FarpointFarms]

I did not because I don't have any

[@steve732]

YES you CAN play Art Bell. Many of his episodes are here on KZbin in their entirety Free for the download or to watch or listen

[@FarpointFarms]

YT gets really weird about copyright strikes and what they can do to a channel. I try not to risk it

[@edgardagosto1917]

Good I buy one with 8track tape player. 8track tapes come fresh from the recording studio. 😊

[@FarpointFarms]

I still find so many 8track tapes out at our local goodwill locations.

[@johnblanton-fd3jf]

I have a few cassettes left , most have been succumbed to mildew or eaten by a player that I had in a car radio. I also still have a Carnegie AM/FM tape player/recorder that I've had since the mid 70's , still works and doesn't eat tapes :-) The TR641 may be something took look into for sure.

[@FarpointFarms]

I kinda miss seeing the cassette tape on the side of the road, waving in the wind. You just don't see that anymore

[@johnblanton-fd3jf]

@ HaHa!! You should have seen the 8 track , they really made statement in roadside decor lol

[@JoshColletta]

I do still have some cassettes in storage, including some airchecks from my days in radio. I'd have to wonder what the mechanism is; whether it's going to provide any noise reduction or if it's of suitable audio quality (at least to my ears; I have unrealistically high standards for cassettes in this day and age 😆).

[@FarpointFarms]

I am not sure about the noise reduction, but for me, I am half deaf (no kidding I really am), so if it is not perfect, I am OK with that

[@Captain1717Q]

By the way I love that red phone on the shelf in the background!!!

[@FarpointFarms]

Thanks- good eye

[@douglassnyder8163]

Will be ordering one.

[@FarpointFarms]

I hope you like it as much as I do

[@soybeanzzzz]

I still have a box of old cassette tapes. And recently, my son's band has released their music on cassette tape.

[@FarpointFarms]

That is cool that his band does that-

[@CrazyMike2]

Yes, they sell new cassette tapes on Amazon and you can always find some new blank VHS tapes at the thrift shops for real cheap

[@FarpointFarms]

That is good to know- thanks for sharing

[@TheDudeVT]

I still have a bunch if cassettes as my work truck has a cassette player in it. And you can definitely find new old stock vhs 📼 and audio cassettes at thrift stores and yard sales. Not sure if the make new ones. But I pick them up at those 2 places semi regularly. I have a few if your interested in some new cassettes let me know.

[@FarpointFarms]

Thanks- I will let you know, I need to go thrifting here soon, maybe I can find some.

[@bambi--5]

I just looked it up..They still sell cassette tapes.. in the same packs too!

[@FarpointFarms]

I kinda wonder if it was a warehouse from the 90s that someone bought and it was full of them.

[@va6gkthaskey311]

I have 8 tracks and a working player but I do not have cassettes. I may have to see if I can come across some. ,🤔

[@FarpointFarms]

I saw some 8 tracks at the flea market yesterday! It's been a while.

[@FrankTillman-f1u]

Good morning!

[@FarpointFarms]

Good Morning back to you (OK more like Good Afternoon)

[@gorankoilic6571]

I had radios with cassettes. I got one in 2000.

[@FarpointFarms]

I think in the 2000s they were still around a little bit, CDs MP3s really started to take over

[@robertmeyer4744]

Walmart still sells a cassette recorder and blank tapes. I know this from my girlfriend finding them and they made their way into shopping cart . Also the micro cassette tapes still around. And the 3.5 in 1.44 MB floppy disk. all at walmart. And they also have record player and NEW records ! They even sell blank CD and DVD disks . I see new VCR tapes at yard sales very often . I found 8MM video tapes new ! I have a old sony that takes them . Even a mini disk cam. takes 3.5 IN DVD-RW discs and still can find them. I still have a GE beach radio . It is a odd one. Takes 5 C batteries . Shocking AM reception .

[@FarpointFarms]

I think that I need to visit your Wamart- mine does not carry those kinds of things. It is a shame they don't

[@allen_p]

Very neat. I have a cassette tape of my deceased childhood friend's Country albulm on cassette. I could trasfer it to sd. A reasonable price for the radio cassette

[@FarpointFarms]

That would be great, you could help preserve some of the memories

[@stephenwright8103]

They still sell VHS blank tapes on Amazon and cassette players are starting to make a come back as vinyl records are so what goes around.... comes around..

[@FarpointFarms]

Exactly- what is old is new again (wonder if that will work for me?)

[@nicogeelen1039]

I still use my cassetterecorder and I'm still recording them on new cassette tapes, you can buy them 5 pack Maxell

[@FarpointFarms]

I did not realize how much they were still available

[@benedit71]

Can you do a review of the rt-860? I think it is a low-priced ht which has ssb and is a multi band and It sells for less than 50 dollars.

[@FarpointFarms]

I will see if that is possible.

[@darylhudson777]

On the website your provided it has boombox in the description...lol

[@FarpointFarms]

Not the boombox that I grew up with- This one would not do well on my shoulder

[@darylhudson777]

@FarpointFarms lol... I suspect that there was a mistranslation or misunderstanding and it's from communist China

[@RCAvhstape]

I left a comment here about the inline reviews of this radio and it's gone. What's going on?

[@FarpointFarms]

I did not block it, sometimes YT will block comments if they think there is something going on. Sorry

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

I think you said it has a single speaker, is it full stereo otherwise?

[@FarpointFarms]

I am not 100% sure= Sorry

[@nightrunner1456]

I have 30-years of C2C, I would tap when I got home from work, if the show was good. I drove local and 2-days out. In 2020, all the chain drug store stop selling 5-pack cassette tapes, overnight. Walmart's sell's junk cassette radios won't last a year. I wish, the radios would come extra antenna or a backup antenna. I would play a cassette and be asleep in 15-minutes. Every year you would get one "Hot" call on C2C, from an in sighter, who know too much.

[@FarpointFarms]

I always loved when JC would call in- It was a highlight for me to hear the conversations.

[@JohnParsons-om9yr]

Art bell = thumd up like 😊

[@FarpointFarms]

Art Bell was the best- I really miss him

[@tjb.7213]

I see either Tirpitz or Bismark in the background. Looks like 1/350

[@FarpointFarms]

It is the Bismark, I am not sure of the scale- Great catch

[@tjb.7213]

@FarpointFarms thanks for the confirmation! Already knew the answer before I called it out. Love your videos! Keep up the good work.

[@gorankoilic6571]

Eric, do you have a gramophone?

[@FarpointFarms]

I don't but I would love to have one- They have such an amazing look to them

[@JosephDeLuna-yj8vg]

Walkman On Steroids!!!

[@FarpointFarms]

Pretty much.

[@wmitrader]

Isn’t it a Retekess brand and not a Retevis ?

[@FarpointFarms]

Whoops- It is fixed now. Thanks for catching that

[@toddault6119]

Have alot of old music cassettes , but most have degraded to thre point that its tough to listen to them and my old player is eating them, that's always the problem with old magnetic tapes.

[@FarpointFarms]

I agree, they only work for so long then they get eaten.

[@jean-claudemorin7377]

I have a lot of cassette still

[@gregbarnett3141]

I do too! Two milk crates full

[@FarpointFarms]

2 crates full is a lot! I don't think I had that many of them back in the prime of it

[@shockingguy]

I’ve got a bunch of brand new cassettes if anybody’s interested ha ha ha seriously

[@FarpointFarms]

I am surprised that no one wanted your stuff

[@houseofcluck]

oh china...

[@FarpointFarms]

Not sure what you mean by this one