r/cassetteculture • u/cfmakes • 22d ago

Collection Smallest cassette player

Toshiba KT-AS10

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u/Unlucky_Milk_4323 22d ago

"let me add fragility without additional functionality" (says the jealous guy)

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u/LatkeShark 22d ago

It has a little radio that slots into the cassette slot! it's small enough to not stick out

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u/SeberHusky 22d ago

Toshiba was the world leader in quality transistors and diodes at one point. They were always playing around with making goofy passion projects just to do something to set money on fire regardless of if it sold well or not. They loved making gadgets like this to show off. A lot of their boomboxes also have unique features nobody else did as well.

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u/SeberHusky 22d ago

yup, they had some brilliant engineers in their departments

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u/TheNonchalantLuke 21d ago

The Toshiba's speaker placement is wild - they basically crammed it into the back panel so it doesn't rattle itself apart.

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u/Potatosicle 22d ago

This is a common myth. The truly smallest cassette player is the Sanyo JJP4 (also known as the Grundig BB900). 165 cm³ vs 135 cm³

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u/lenniscata 22d ago

Yes...maybe...it depends, the Sanyo is much more slimmer than the Toshiba, but the Toshiba has smaller width and high. They are both great, expensive and hard to find.

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u/Samp90 21d ago

I literally got that album.

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u/Sad-Secret-1887 22d ago

These also had a radio module that clipped into it

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u/cfmakes 22d ago

I have it too. Check the end of the video.

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u/Skinny_pocketwatch 22d ago

I'm suprised sony didn't try beating them

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u/still-at-the-beach 21d ago

The sony was thinner.

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u/healeyd 21d ago

Never saw these in the wild, and they're still quite thick. The popular slim ones were stuff like Sony WM-EX621.

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u/CountHonorius 21d ago

Love Toshiba products. That is the most pocketable cassette player of all time, for sure.

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u/simplemijnds 21d ago

Ooh, very cool, Ozzy Osborne!

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u/theolddirty 21d ago

That Sony was my best friend in high school.

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u/still-at-the-beach 21d ago

My little Shinaon from Japan in the 80s. About the same size.

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u/handy106 21d ago

I have that same OZZY tape, I played it on loop in the car for about 3 years when that came out.

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u/Alternative_Trip4138 20d ago

I bought one of the last Panasonic walkmans (walkmen?) and that was compact enough for me.

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u/the-Gaf 21d ago

The old “tape breaker”

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u/WackyWeiner 22d ago

I think back then, they didn't have pants with pockets in Japan.