Streaming services deliver decent audio quality straight to our phones and earbuds, but a DIY creator and YouTuber is taking things a step further. Julius Curt, also known as Julius Makes, has built a custom cassette-tape-themed Bluetooth music player.
Rather of playing music directly, the player records the audio onto a cassette loop in real time. Then,it plays back the music,providing warm,nostalgic vibes with hints of lo-fi and subtle saturation.
The concept is clever and simple. The music player receives audio from your phone via Bluetooth, converts it to an analog signal, mixes it down to mono, and feeds it to the record head of a modified cassette deck.
The tape loops around 3D-printed guides and passes a playback head.Audio is then played via a built-in speaker or through headphones. This intricate journey…
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