Where can you buy a cassette player in 2026?
New cassette players are sold by at least 14 US retailers right now, from $23.49 for a plastic personal player to $649.00 for a Tascam deck. The median ask across 111 priced listings is $65.00.
The one thing worth knowing before you buy: the same GPX CAS337 personal player is stocked by five of those retailers at $24.99, $29.99, $34.99, $38.14 and $39.99. Shop the model, not the shop.
Prices read from live US advertiser feeds on 1 September 2026. Cassette hardware moves in and out of stock quickly; check the retailer page before you commit.
Personal players, $23 to $60
This is the tier most people actually want: a battery-powered box with a tape door, a headphone jack and usually an FM radio. Almost all of it is made by three brands — GPX, Jensen and GPO — and re-sold under many storefronts.
| Player | Retailer | Price |
|---|---|---|
| iLive cassette player with AM/FM | Office Depot | $23.49 |
| GPX CAS337 portable cassette player | Books-A-Million | $24.99 |
| GPX CAS337 with AM/FM and voice record | FYE | $29.99 |
| Jensen SCR75HP cassette player, AM/FM | Books-A-Million | $29.99 |
| GPO personal cassette player / radio | Macy’s | $32.08 |
| GPX CAS337B | UnbeatableSale | $38.14 |
| GPX CAS337 personal cassette player | Macy’s | $39.99 |
| GPO W/938B/BT Bluetooth personal player | Macy’s | $56.02 |
| Riptunes cassette player/recorder, USB out | Macy’s | $59.99 |
The Riptunes and the GPO Bluetooth model are the two in that list that do something the 1990s could not: one dumps a tape to USB, the other streams the tape to wireless headphones. If you are digitising a shoebox of home recordings, the USB one is the whole reason to buy new rather than hunt a working Walkman.
Boomboxes and multi-format decks, $45 to $70
| Machine | What it plays | Retailer | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victrola The Quincy 6-in-1 | Vinyl, CD, cassette, FM, Bluetooth, aux | Woot! | $45.00–$59.99 |
| Supersonic retro 4-band radio + cassette | Cassette, 4-band radio, Bluetooth | Macy’s | $54.99 |
| Jensen portable Bluetooth MP3/CD/cassette | CD, cassette, FM, Bluetooth | Wayfair | $64.43 |
| Jensen MCR-500 portable boombox | Cassette, CD, AM/FM | antonline | $63.81 |
Honest note on this tier: a 6-in-1 at $50 is six mediocre transports in one plastic case. It is a reasonable buy if you want one object that plays everything on a kitchen counter, and a poor one if you care about the tape.
Designed and serious, $130 to $649
| Machine | Retailer | Price |
|---|---|---|
| We Are Rewind portable cassette player (Edith, Serge, Keith, Kurt, Amy) | Rough Trade | $129.99 |
| We Are Rewind GB-001 Curtis Bluetooth boombox player/recorder | antonline | $460.12 |
| Teac W-1200 dual cassette deck with pitch control and USB out | Macy’s | $599.99 |
| Tascam CD-A580 cassette/CD/USB player-recorder | zZounds | $649.00 |
We Are Rewind is the only company in this pull building a new portable cassette player as a designed object rather than a commodity: machined aluminium body, rechargeable battery, Bluetooth transmitter, each colourway named after a musician. At $129.99 it costs four times a GPX and it is the one we would actually carry.
The Teac and the Tascam are decks, not portables. They exist for the same reason as the Riptunes: people with tape archives who want a machine with a real transport and a line out.
What the whole market looks like
| Retailer | Cassette machines listed | Cheapest | Median | Dearest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UnbeatableSale.com | 26 | $37.18 | $100.74 | $260.92 |
| Woot! | 16 | $9.99 | $59.99 | $70.37 |
| Macy’s | 14 | $32.08 | $54.99 | $599.99 |
| Wayfair | 10 | $34.99 | $69.99 | $119.99 |
| Zoro | 9 | $34.99 | $70.29 | $186.99 |
| JCPenney | 7 | $40.00 | $85.00 | $430.00 |
| antonline | 4 | $63.81 | $73.66 | $460.12 |
| Rough Trade | 3 | $129.99 | $129.99 | $129.99 |
| FYE | 2 | $29.99 | $38.99 | $47.99 |
Frequently asked
Can you still buy a new cassette player in 2026?
Yes. At least 14 US retailers list new cassette hardware, from a $23.49 iLive personal player to a $649.00 Tascam CD-A580 deck. The median ask across 111 priced listings on 1 September 2026 is $65.00.
What is the cheapest cassette player worth buying?
The GPX CAS337 is the volume model and the one to price-shop: it appears at five retailers between $24.99 and $39.99. The iLive at $23.49 is cheaper still. Neither has a line out, so neither is any use for digitising tapes.
Which cassette player can copy tapes to a computer?
Look for USB playback or a line out. In this pull the Riptunes cassette player and recorder at $59.99, the Teac W-1200 at $599.99 and the Tascam CD-A580 at $649.00 all offer it. Personal players at the $25 to $40 tier generally do not.
Is We Are Rewind worth $129.99?
It is the only new portable cassette player in this market built as a designed object: machined aluminium, rechargeable battery, Bluetooth out. It costs about four times a GPX. If you will carry it daily, that is a fair premium; if you will use it twice, it is not.
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Last verified 1 September 2026 against 116 cassette-machine listings from 14 US advertisers in the CJ product feed, 111 of them carrying a usable price. Listings under $5.00 from conventional retailers were treated as feed errors and excluded.
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