- MAXELL MXCP-P100 is a portable Bluetooth cassette player with up to 9 hours of battery life
- No admission or noise reduction circuit
- Not at the moment (officially) available outside of Japan
Maxell’s new cassette player has given me a massive nostalgia – and if you were in the 80s you know exactly why. Maxell created one of the most iconic TV ads of all time – embedded below – where the sound of its ties was so powerful that it was like sitting in a wind tunnel.
This Bluetooth player does not go so high, but every inch of the outside scream “The eighties!” – And of course, the inside is significantly more modern.
MAXELL MXCP-P100 TAPE PLAYER: SPECIFICATIONS, PRICE AND AVAILABLE
As you can see in the pictures, it is a compact cassette player with the usual control buttons on top and a headphone out and volume on the side.
However, there are two additional bits that you do not find a tape player from the 80s: a Bluetooth button and a USB-C charging sport. This player uses a rechargeable battery rather than old-school AAS and it can stream wirelessly to your Bluetooth headphones. The Bluetooth version is 5.4.
Battery life is an alleged nine hours of wired headphones and seven without.
There is no recording here, nor did not reduction Dolby; The battery is built in so you will have to take a cable if you take the player traveling. And unfortunately, there is another warning: It is not officially available outside Japan, even if there is plenty on eBay.
Prices are mildly varying: I look at lists ranging from $ 202 / £ 147 to $ 398 / £ 300.
It makes it quite a little more expensive than we are coils for equivalent player who also has Bluetooth, but you may be more like wanting to buy Maxell because it is so much smaller – we are coil player is a thick, heavy animal.
And the FIIO CP13 is also far cheaper and closer to being the right size, but it doesn’t have Bluetooth, so again Maxell may be the better option if you actually want to use it out and around.
